Review: Marmaduke Spatula's F**kin Spectacular Cabaret

Marmaduke Spatula, otherwise known as Seymour Mace, is basically the bastard lovechild of Vic, Bob, and Harry Hill.

Viz creator gig opens Sunderland comedy festival

Laugher rang out around city venues as Sunderland's first comedy festival kicked off in style. Viz creator Simon Donald and Seymour Mace tickled ribs at The Place in Sunniside.

Review: Seymour's Gang - Newcastle Stand

Seymour's Gang, the new monthly sketch/variety show at The Stand hosted by Seymour Mace, got off to a good start on Sunday, with its first performance at The Stand in Newcastle.

Preview - Seymour Mace: Squeg!

Squeg! Squeg! Squeg! Squeg? Square Peg.

Why Seymour Mace played in my front room...

How did 30 people and a comedian get in my front room? It was Twitter's fault.

Pure silliness abounds as Dave Gorman hosts a one-off show in which he asks his contestants - Chris Addison, Roisin Conaty, Geoff Lloyd and Seymour Mace - to compete for gold medals in, quite frankly, ludicrous rounds. For example, Usain Bolt can run the 100m in 9.58 seconds: what do the panellists think they could do in 9.58 seconds? It's fantastic to see Absolute Radio's Geoff Lloyd pop up on a panel show. He's one of the sharpest wits on air.

Shooting Stars fans will no doubt be keen on seeing at least one vestige of the surreal panel game live on in this Comedy Showcase pilot - which has already been commissioned for a full series in 2012.

Dan Skinner plays the award-winning burger van owner Angelos, making his own somewhat shambolic show alongside his friends Gupta (Adeel Akhtar), Kenny (Seymour Mace) and Margaret (Hannah Walters). The show features sketches, interviews, songs and audience participation.

As with any sketch show, these are always measured on their "hit and miss ratio". I would say that it's certainly more on the hit side, especially with it's range of physical and visual humour.

Yes, I know it's not the most sophisticated, but it's just pleasing to see.

Everything from the opening silhouette of Angelos at a mike, which turns out to be a chicken drumstick, to him taking a bath in the house of an unsuspecting audience member, is just... pleasing. And no doubt the more troublesome sketches will be ironed out in the forthcoming series, which should be well worth a watch.

Interview: Seymour Mace

Giggle Beats favourite Seymour Mace returns to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year with children's show Happypotamus. We caught up with him to talk about this year's Fringe... and flying monkeys with lasers shooting out of their eyes.