'Doing standup and kids' TV takes a bit of juggling'

If you're a kids' TV presenter fans may come up to you at any time - even when you're being a foul-mouthed drunk in a bar.

Susan Calman's Edinburgh festival diary

Today, she wonders if working on death row has helped her deal with tough crowds.

Susan Calman interview

It's the day before her new Fringe show debuts and Susan Calman is feeling the pressure. "I'd kind of forgotten just how sick one can feel just before it starts!" the feisty Glaswegian laughs down the phone.

'Insomnia can have serious festival side effects'

Having too much time on your hands could see you - the horror - hanging out with other comedians.

Susan Calman's Edinburgh festival diary

Comedian Susan Calman will be delivering daily dispatches about life as a performer at the fringe. Today she asks: how drunk is too drunk for a comedy show?

Susan Calman's Edinburgh festival diary

Susan Calman will be delivering daily dispatches about life as a performer at the fringe. Today, she asks how comics should draw attention to their shows. By being nice, perhaps?

Susan Calman is not for turning either

An interview with Tommy Holgate about her new Fringe show.

Susan Calman happy to be same-sex marriage role model

Susan Calman can cope with the rapier wit of Paul Merton and Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You. She can hold her own with Stephen Fry on brainbox show QI [on later in the year].

But the Glasgow comic has no answer for the homophobic abuse she has experienced in her home town.

A welcome return for the panel show hosted by Charlie Brooker that looks for the worst in everything and spins it into comedy gold. For example - your ideas, please, for the most appalling concept album? I'll leave you to insert your own ideas there and introduce the panellists: reliable Lee Mack; rising Scottish comic Susan Calman (a News Quiz regular); and the "who he?", Daniel Maier (answer: a writer on Harry Hill's TV Burp, so no slouch when it comes to gags).

You'll laugh your socks off - and future episodes are also worth catching, with guests including "the Legend" Barry Cryer, Graham Linehan (Father Ted) and Isy Suttie, doleful Dobby from Peep Show.

Homeland's Damian Lewis takes to the host chair of this long-running panel show once again - but don't expect Paul Merton nor Ian Hislop to be any kinder to him now that's he's starring in one of the hottest shows on TV. Meanwhile Glasgow comic Susan Calman will be seeking to prove her quick-fire mettle among the guests.