Radio Times review

There's been charm by the bucketload in this series of Ruth Jones's gentle comedy and this final episode wraps things up in cockle-warming fashion. Every week has some ridiculous subplot that calls for fancy dress, and tonight Big Alan and Celia get their Antony and Cleopatra costumes on for their wedding. Stella has good news about her nursing exams, and Michael gets a job offer in London, but will they overcome their differences? Luke, meanwhile, is struggling with his gambling addiction so he's relieved when a familiar face offers help.

Bill Oddie remembers radio comedy that inspired Python

The broadcaster and birdwatcher looks back on I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again, his rowdy 1960s radio comedy featuring John Cleese, Graeme Garden and Tim Brooke-Taylor.

Life according to Caitlin Moran

When it comes to life, Caitlin Moran is on a one-woman mission to re-write the rules.

Review: Russell Kane

While his focus tends to be on British culture, he's smart enough to have adapted his material effectively for Australian audiences to ensure we can relate.

Noel Fielding interview

Raised in South London by parents with a fondness for Frank Zappa and Hawkwind albums, Noel Fielding's magical view of the world was formed in part by childhood TV shows like The Banana Splits and, later, art school. Subsequent co-creation The Mighty Boosh catapulted the 41-year-old to uber art-comedy stardom, while his team captainship on Never Mind the Buzzcocks mesmerised BBC viewers with glam-inspired outfits, charm and wit. With his surreal Hawaiian coffee shop-set TV series Luxury Comedy now concluded, Fielding has returned to stand-up, and he's bringing his solo show, An Evening with Noel Fielding, to Australia this month.

Review: Weirdly wonderful Noel Fielding 'wows' Warwick

Only Noel Fielding has the ability to produce a show that lasts over two hours and boasts a talking moon, a pantomime in playdoh and a whole host of strange, eccentric characters that leave you feeling like a little child again.

Radio Times review

Another year, another jam-packed Stella finale. And change is in the air. Michael has an interview for a job in London; the bailiffs are sent in to penniless Luke and Zoe's house and Big and Little Alan's café is forced to close. And if all that sounds miserable, it's not.

This, after all, is the day of Big Alan's fancy dress wedding to Celia, at once ludicrous and moving. And there's another effective deployment of a returning character, too: Stella's ex Rob (Mark Lewis Jones), just in time to sort out his wayward son Luke. Not that everyone's pleased to see him. "Well, look what the cat have dragged up from the sewer," as Aunty Brenda says (Di Botcher is once again hilarious).

It's an eisteddfod of feel-good, even if one particular turnaround in fortunes at the wedding is laughably unrealistic. But there is a little salt mixed in with the marzipan. Stella will return in 2016.

Sport & comedy: TV marriage that will sadly never end

ITV's new panel show Play to the Whistle is the latest banter-chasing blend of sport and comedy, following A League of Their Own, Big Break and countless others. But while everyone on screen enjoys themselves, for audiences it's televisual carbon monoxide.

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Bobby Mair, the Udderbelly Festival and Ray Peacock.

How Monty Python and the Holy Grail influenced film

Forty years after its release, the film remains the gold standard for subversive comedy.

The interview: Dave Spikey

Dave Spikey tells Tom Walsh: "Peter phoned and said 'what do you think about getting everybody back together?'"

Sue Perkins for Top Gear, and if not her another comic?

In the last few days I've heard about Count Arthur Strong being mooted as new host of Top Gear and Alexei Sayle being tipped for the job. At the time of writing Sue Perkins is the odds-on bookies favourite, even though she has tweeted that she is not interested.

Daniel Kitson to perform at Edinburgh Fringe

Daniel Kitson is planning to perform his latest solo play, Polyphony, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this summer.

Steve Davis wants Catherine Tate to play him on screen

The sportsman is keen for a fellow flame-haired star to portray him if his autobiography is ever turned into a movie - even though she is a woman.

Radio 4 commissions Josh Howie sitcom

The BBC has commissioned six half-hour episodes of Josh Howie's Losing It, which will air in 2016.

A sitcom about Cameron? He's not funny enough

Politics, by its very nature, is a bit dry. That's why ITV hired Nina Nannar - even writing her name helps to keep things jovial. So what makes politics a firm grounding for comedy; least of all an election that feels as if it's heading relentlessly to nothing but disappointment, compromise and a sense of the familiar?

Review: Inside No. 9 - 'The Trial of Elizabeth Gadge'

Entertaining fare, but too predictable and clichéd to prove genuinely memorable.

HIGNFY, review: ''Radcliffe was quietly charming"

It's still a shock seeing Daniel Radcliffe dressed as a grown-up and sporting actual facial hair, as he did hosting the returning Have I Got News For You.

The Play That Goes Wrong extends run at Duchess

The Play That Goes Wrong has extended its West End run by a further five months.

Heard the one about the comedian who sold his soul?

Steve Johnston looks like a comedian, he sounds like a comedian, and from next week he will take to the main stage at one of London's foremost comedy venues, Soho Theatre. But Steve Johnston does not exist. He is a fictional character, played by Brian Doherty in Death of a Comedian.