Ross Noble

TV Review: Freewheeling

The sight of Ross Noble verbally sparring with a bible-bashing slightly manic street preacher in a shop doorway or hugging a fan whose flies were undone were the highlights of my evening. There is clearly plenty more mileage in Freewheeling.

Ross Noble interview

Ross Noble's new TV venture, Freewheeling, starts on Dave tonight. Part-travelogue and part comedy show, the programme sees him zipping around the country on his motorbike, taking his lead as to what to do next from suggestions made by his followers on Twitter.

TV review: Ross Noble: Freewheeling, Dave

There were definitely moments last night when we might rather have been watching "Great Pavements of Britain". Not every member of the public "gets" Noble's particular brand of whimsy and his encounters with these blank-faced Britons were usually awkward, or even sad, as opposed to funny. But though he led us down several dead ends, Noble did eventually turn onto the road marked "quality television".

Ross Noble: Mock the Week is "terrible"

Comedian Ross Noble has revealed why he has never appeared on BBC Two current affairs comedy Mock the Week - because he thinks the spontaneity is faked.

Ross Noble's favourite TV

The geordie surrealist on his favourite telly flights of fancy.

It's a round titled "Kit and Kaboodle" and Stephen Fry wants to know if there's a use for kitty-litter that doesn't involve cats. Alan Davies tries to be helpful, but his contribution ("In an episode of Jonathan Creek I weed into some cat litter") isn't quite what Fry is after. Ross Noble and Noel Fielding, with Australian comic Colin Lane, can't quite lift the episode off the ground.

But there are some bright bits, including Fry demonstrating martial arts on a pile of three bricks: "This takes extreme focus and extreme pain," says Fry, wincing in agony.

Ross Noble Elephant Man joke cleared by BBC Trust

Comedian Ross Noble's impression of "elephant man" John Merrick in an edition of Have I Got News For You has been ruled to be "at the margins of acceptability" by the BBC Trust.

Ross Noble: I still have nightmares about the inferno

Were it not for an apparently trivial series of events, Ross Noble, his wife Fran and baby daughter Elfie would have perished in the bushfire that destroyed their Australian home. It is four years since that traumatic day in February 2009.