Sarah Millican boosts Channel 4's Friday night ratings

Sarah Millican managed to match Alan Carr in terms of viewers on Friday night, early figures indicate.

Last year was a corker for Sarah Millican. She was crowned the British Comedy Awards Queen of Comedy and released her debut DVD, Chatterbox Live - which became the highest-selling British DVD from a female comic. Here's your chance to catch that performance but beware - as Millican warns - she's a lot ruder than on TV.

In her TV appearances RT columnist Sarah Millican comes across as the risqué auntie all the kids want to sit next to at Christmas dinner. She's a little bit naughty and a tiny bit filthy but somehow that warm Geordie accent means she doesn't frighten the relatives.

But in her live shows Millican can afford to be that bit more shocking than TV allows. Watch the faces of a delightfully scandalised audience in Chatterbox Live, which, when it was released as a DVD set an all-time DVD sales record for a female stand-up.

Though the set is of course skewed towards women, Millican has fun saying the unsayable and shocking the men. They don't seem to mind. So buckle up and join Millican as she extols the freedoms of living alone, her love of hamster squeezing and the breathtaking show-and-tell demanded by one of her friends.

Last year, when North east comedian Sarah Millican released Chatterbox Live as her debut DVD, it was a huge success. Channel 4 has now got hold of a copy, so if you haven't got your own, you can watch it tonight. Millican, who rose to fame when she decided to use her experience of being jilted by her husband in her stand-up, has a charming frankness. Her humour focuses on her love life and what to do when your boyfriend puts a sock on your breast during sex.