Kanye West

A top-notch Gavin & Stacey episode is a beautiful thing. It bathes you in a warm glow, thanks to its lovingly rendered quirks of family life - having a "messy drawer" or making an omelette with yesterday's beef - even as it folds you up with laughter. Tonight's plot is nothing fancy. There always needs to be an excuse to bring the Barry Island folk and the Billericayites together, and in this case it's a gathering planned at Mick and Pam's for a golf and spa weekend (for which we welcome back the beloved/dreadful Pete and Dawn). But before that gets going there's a Friday-night curry, the ordering of which takes about half the episode ("Gav - will you laugh at me if I have a korma?" etc). It's not just a nice riff on a modern ritual, it turns out to be about something else - why Nessa and Smithy belong together. Along the way there's a fine scene where Bryn puts on a fake job interview for Stacey, a hilarious passing reference to John Nettles, and Smithy's loving re-creation of a Kanye West rap, performed with his sister in a car park - and down the phone to Gavlahh. It's brilliant.

The defendant this time in the crimes against comedy court is Katy Brand's Big Ass Show, which at least can't be done under the Trade Descriptions Act of 1968. Katy Brand indisputably has a big ass. And she does show it, though thankfully in moderation. But that does not make her funny. Not even remotely. Apparently she's guested with Chris Moyles, which makes all kinds of sense.

Brand can carry a tune, which at least gives her mickey-taking music parodies an air of competence markedly missing when she enters sketch-show territory. But her targets are so wide of the mark - there are way more deserving cases for having a pop at than Lady GaGa, Kanye West and Coldplay - that they end up looking like pale imitations of French And Saunders.

The un-subtle sketch show (yes, that title is a useful advert) is back for an astonishing third series. Although the targets are obvious, the musical spoofs are far and away the best thing here, from the calculated wardrobe malfunctions of Lady Gaga to Kanye West's overuse of Auto-Tune ("I got it half-price/I bought it off Posh Spice"). And it's all pretty quickfire, which is a blessing because many of the situations feel as if they were knocked together in a few minutes. Still, you might enjoy Lily Allen: paramedic, or Bea and Eugenie hosting How Clean Is Your Palace?

Time for series three of this sketch series and Ms Brand is still failing to wow us. None of it is terribly original but at least the music parodies are halfway fun: Kanye West espouses the virtues of Autotune, and Lady Gaga sings about her own pointlessness.

Katy Brand's Kanye an egomaniac

I'm loving comedian Katy Brand's send-up of egomaniac Kanye West.