Toast Of Tinseltown review

Toast is hot stuff - with more laughs in 30 minutes than in most sitcom series.

Ghosts review

Ghosts can sometimes teeter on the brink of tweeness and this storyline almost pushed it over the edge. Luckily, there's more acerbic humour to keep the balance.

Would I Lie To You? At Christmas, review

Would I Lie To You? is a blissfully funny format, but it does highlight the dearth of real chat shows on TV.

This year's must-read books written by comedians

Including Bob Mortimer, Harry Hill, Jimmy Carr, Billy Connolly, Michael McIntyre, Daisy May Cooper and Jack Whitehall.

The chief problem with The Outlaws is that none of them is very likeable. Writer Stephen Merchant plays Greg, a solicitor arrested in his car with a prostitute. Eleanor Tomlinson is a social media junkie, in every sense, with a vicious temper, and Christopher Walken is an alcoholic fraudster who talks like a Prohibition-era gangster.

There's barely any story. Last week someone stole some money and hid it, this week a couple of other people found it. We're supposed to be drawn into the characters' lives. But I'd cross the road to avoid most of them.

Stath Lets Flats review

This is one-note comedy -- hilarious if you enjoy the sight of implausibly stupid people embarrassing themselves endlessly.

The Outlaws review

These Outlaws are so confused... I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

Review: Graham Norton Show, Jonathan Ross Show

Reviews of The Graham Norton Show (3 stars) and The Jonathan Ross Show (2 stars).

The Larkins review

The trouble is, though it rattles along at pace, it keeps veering off the path, like a wonky pram. Some of the dialogue is especially suspect.

Guilt review

As an advert for Edinburgh, the cruelly comic thriller Guilt (BBC2) is inviting.