Janey Godley v Donald Trump, the police & Harry Potter

"Yeah," said Janey, "I'm a Harry Potter kebab is what I am. When I came out of Leicester Square Theatre," she continued, "there was just a big queue of people dressed in cloaks with Harry Potter wands which is funny because (Janey's daughter) Ashley did Tanya Potter - a Scottish Harry Potter - and it got 16 million hits online. That made me laugh. Ashley was getting recognised in the street in Glasgow as the Harry Potter girl. Lots of people were dressed as Tanya Potter for Halloween in a shell suit wi' a stick wi' a zigzag on their cheek as a scar."

Glasgow Live new sponsors for Glasgow Comedy Festival

Glasgow Live have been named as the official title sponsors for the event, which brings some of the world's best known comics to the city.

The weekly interview: Eric Idle

Monty Python said goodbye two years ago with a final show at the O2 Arena in London, but like a parrot nailed to a perch, "final" is open for debate. Eric Idle and John Cleese, a full third of the Pythons, have split off in the past year to tour John Cleese and Eric Idle: Together Again at Last ... for the Very First Time, which stops at the Venetian November 18 and 19. It's fortuitous timing for Idle, who'll have a variety of restaurants to choose from. "It's my wife's birthday on the second night, so I'll have to buy her dinner or something," he deadpans during our phone interview.

Bill Bailey - Larks In Transit review

Although he's been performing on our shores for 20 years now, this was my first time seeing Bailey live. Though expectations were high, he did not disappoint.

Stewart Lee, review

Stewart Lee may say we're living in a 'post-laughs' era, but he still brings the chuckles, writes Bruce Dessau.

Catherine Tate review

There were some familiar faces on stage for the Catherine Tate Live show - but the person everyone wanted to hear was Tate herself. So some of the biggest laughs were at moments when Tate fluffed her lines in character, and came out as herself - to the delight of the audience.

Video: Jack Whitehall braves our Confessions booth

We also discovered which comedian Jack is most jealous of and, appropriately, gave him something of a religious epiphany... involving underwear.

Interview: Daniel Sloss

Daniel Sloss used to have a simple rule about awards. Don't accept them. That was until earlier this year when he deservedly won the "Best of the Fest" International Award at the Sydney Comedy Festival. Funnily his attitude softened: "I always said if I ever got nominated for an award I'd turn it down, but it was so nice of them I decided it would would be rude not to accept it."

Crazyhead episode 5 review

All in all, 'Downward Facing Dog' IS business as usual for Crazyhead. But that is no criticism whatsoever - in fact, the episode is easily the best one yet.

Interview: Sofie Hagen - quirky comedian with ❤

We caught up with the wonderful Sofie Hagen to talk about her hilarious and personal new comedy show at Soho Theatre, how to survive Trumpaggeddon and her London.

Review: Jonathan Pie, The Lantern

Jonathan Pie's show lies somewhere between a comedy set and a political rally. There are plenty of laughs, but there are also plenty of depressing, enraging facts: like the statistic that income inequality has consistently increased every year under the Tories. And there is a clear message about engagement with others, about not simply dismissing people who think differently to us as 'bigots' or 'stupid'. In a time when politics has lost any sort of rudder and a lot of progressives have decided to hole up in their safe space, this comedian may well be helping to shape some sort of viable populist response from the left. And he makes good jokes whilst he does it.

Meera Syal interview: television is 'in stagnation'

Meera Syal talks to Julia Llewellyn Smith about her ground-breaking comedies, why TV executives should chase the 'brown pound', and her latest project, The Trial of Hamlet.

Stewart Lee review

Political cataclysms jostle with gags about kinky sex and selfie culture in a characteristically twisty and frequently brilliant show from the 'ex-TV comic'.

Lucy Porter interview

Comedy wasn't her first choice of career, but that's exactly what her new show Consequences examines.

What happened between Peter Cook and Jackie Kennedy?

All parts of the comic's life are explored in The Undiscovered Peter Cook - from his love of playing golf on the cobbles outside his house - and creating a ball game named 'Los Bollockos', to his nights on the town with members of the Rolling Stones. His many romances are also touched on; from love letters to wife Liz to his fleeting dalliance with Jackie Kennedy.

But what really happened between the boy from Devon and America's First Lady - and one of the most stylish women in the world - Jackie Kennedy (later Onassis) is uncertain. What we do know is there was almost definitely a romantic fling between the unlikely pair.

Crazyhead episode 5 review: Downward Facing Dog

If Crazyhead's lead characters could only break out from the uninspiring plot they're in, the result could be brilliant TV...

Al Murray interview

"It's a funny one," he tells me. "Ten years ago, people were saying the act was really out of date, but it's actually been prophesy!"

Gloucester Comedy Festival is launched with laughs

The inaugural Gloucester Comedy Festival was launched tonight to the sound of laughter and music.

Stewart Lee: Content Provider - Review

In a typical slice of iconoclastic pedestal-shaking, Lee offers a devastatingly dismissive attack on box-set favourite Game Of Thrones, without the fag of actually having seen it, of course.

Dating apps and artificial romance

Moses Ssebandeke took inspiration from the world of online dating apps for his Online Film Funded short. His film explores the feeling of disconnection and artificial feelings. Here he talks about his film and the process of making it.