The Festival review

Relentlessly crude but good-natured British comedy.

The Festival review

The Inbetweeners' Joe Thomas crowdsurfs a weekend of misadventures and self-abasing nudity in Iain Morris's likable comedy.

The Festival review

Very similar to The Inbetweeners - but that's a good thing

The Festival, review

Joe Thomas makes a long weekend of elaborate misery consistently funny.

There are seven comedians behind what is by far the funniest of this year's BBC Comedy Feed pilots: the members of sketch trio Sheeps (Liam Williams, Alastair Roberts, Daran Johnson); Ellie White and Natasia Demetriou (who perform together as Mother And Baby); the latter's brother Jamie, and Australian comic Claudia O'Doherty. From this network of comedy talent springs sharp, silly, strange skits that radiate confidence and wit. If the long-floundering Great British sketch show has any chance of relevancy again, this is it.

Radio Times review

Here's the kind of knowledge-nugget many QI fans might appreciate. Tonight, Stephen Fry offers a scientific explanation for the phenomenon of walking into a room, then forgetting why you went there. It's not just brain decay, he reassures us, but a possible hangover from our evolutionary past, whereby crossing a threshold, moving from one environment to another, in some way resets our mental state.

Now where was I? Oh yes, so also on the show are Jimmy Carr, who, love him or loathe him, is on flying form, Suggs and Claudia O'Doherty, as well as the very QI line: "I can't believe you're being so blasé about this Stephen - you've killed a unicorn."

Claudia O'Doherty: Q&A

We talk turkey with Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award nominee Claudia O'Doherty.

Fringe: How to... Make the English laugh

Aussie comic Claudia O'Doherty says she hasn't been to most of the UK, but she knows On The Buses.

This week's new live comedy

Reviews of Diane Spencer, Claudia O'Doherty and Angela Barnes.