This stand-up comedy show at the O2 Arena in London features a barnstorming roll-call of British comedians all stepping up to the mic in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. The bill includes Alan Carr, Bill Bailey, Catherine Tate, David Mitchell, The Fonejacker, Jack Dee, Jo Brand, Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Noel Fielding, Patrick Kielty, Rich Hall, Rob Brydon and Shappi Khorsandi. If you can't find somebody in that list who makes you laugh, it's possible that you have, indeed, had all your funny bones surgically removed.

Channel 4 Comedy Gala at the O2 Arena, London SE10

It was billed as "the biggest live stand-up show in UK history". But although this show in aid of the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children featured 30-odd comics performing to 15,000 people, with more on video clips, in many ways it conformed to the usual rules of the charity gala. Some acts reminded you why they are stars (Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Jack Dee). Some were good enough to win a lot of new fans (Mark Watson, Kevin Bridges, Patrick Kielty, John Bishop, Rich Hall, Sean Lock). Some did their thing and did it well (Noel Fielding, Jo Brand). Barely anyone died a death. And, though the O2's 11pm curfew forestalled the usual overrun, cor, did Evans, the headliner, strike a chord when he imagined what we were thinking: "Pleeeeease, finish!"

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True fans will have bought the boxed-set, nabbed front-row seats at the tour and driven their nearest and dearest mad quoting Bob Fossil. But you'll probably want to tune in for this repeat anyway. It wasn't until series two that most of us cottoned onto The Boosh, and this opening episode exhibits the anarchic genius of creators Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding (aka Howard Moon and Vince Noir). Having escaped the zoo, Howard decides that the only way to secure fame and fortune is to track down a Yeti. It really does get better every time.

Try to catch the last in the series of The Boosh. Fans of Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt's absurdist comedy will be aware that The Mighty Boosh (absurdly enough) started life in 2001 as a radio series on GLR, sandwiched in the middle of the football coverage. If you enjoyed the first TV series - set in a zoo - and you subscribe to the view that pictures are better on the radio, you'll like this episode. Howard and Vince have their first encounter with the cockney hitcher as they take Tony the Prawn (a psychological killer) to the animal offenders' zoo run by Bob Fossil's twin brother Wilbur. Some of the themes and songs will be familiar, some will be new. But the tunes are all earworms that will burrow their way in for a good 24 hours. "I'm Bob Fossil / And my anger is colossal ... "

Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding, otherwise known as The Mighty Boosh, present a two-week exploration of the Monty Python team's comedy LPs - which, predating as they did the home video market, were often the only way that fans could experience sketches and songs that would otherwise have disappeared from memory.

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The first series of Chatty Man was a winner and Mariah Carey lets her celebrity hair down (metaphorically speaking) when she has the honour of being Alan's very first A-list guest for the start of his second series. Will Mariah get Alan's waspish sense of humour? Will she even understand him? It promises to be a legendary collision of two worlds, like the time our cuddly host invited Martina Navratilova to join him for a game of swingball.

Mariah's also going to be performing her single I Want To Know What Love Is and plugging her new movie Precious, which is said to be brilliant. By contrast, Alan's other guest, Never Mind The Buzzcocks' captain Noel Fielding, looks like a much safer, more predictable option and it must be the first time he's ever been called that.