"King of PowerPoint comedy" isn't a viciously contested mantle, but Gorman deserves praise for having mastered his craft. His fourth series of lectures begins with a look at "extractor fans", people so keen to project expertise, they suck the joy out of the thing they like. He has a pleasing streak of curmudgeon, and is as skilled with a comic callback as he is with his slides: his climactic anecdote about an online quiz is sublime.

Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish review

Is modern life good? Sort of. Is it good to see Modern Life is Goodish back on the box? Definitely.

Online abuse? It's water off a comedian's back

"It's sort of like writing a letter to McVities saying 'I hate your biscuits'"

Babymetal fans are intense aren't they...

There was another part of the show that seemed to attract quite a lot of feedback... the part in which I referred to the number of retweets given to some of Harry Styles tweets... a lot of people were aghast at the fact that I said "Baby Metal" was just two random words...

Martin Roberts finds out about Dave Gorman

So Series 3 of Modern Life Is Goodish kicked off last night... and there was a fair chunk of material involving Homes Under The Hammer in general and one of its presenters, Martin Roberts in particular. When a show like that goes out, it's obvious that anyone being talked about is going to find out about it...

Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish review

The show was a little tour de force, terrific-ish.

Dave Gorman on how woman are judged on TV

"The truth is as a white middle class man who's got a TV show I don't feel too exposed to the dark side of the internet... if I were female or non-white I am absolutely sure I would be," says the Modern Life is Goodish presenter.

Dave Gorman interview

This takes about eight months of the year, four of those months are hell, and all the books have basically taken me six months to do, so there isn't a way of overlapping the two and I'm about to be a dad.

Dave Gorman interview

The comedian on parenthood, Ant & Dec, and the sop of Twitter.

Dave Gorman: Lights, Camera... Action Figure

I've had small flurry of tweets from people telling me they actually want one of the dolls [in the adverts]. Some people seem genuinely disappointed that they're not available. But they're not. You can't get one. Even I can't get one.