Lee Mack

If Mack picks on you and you cannot talk back to him, you’re toast. If you do talk back to him, you’re also toast

Kim Noble Will Die

The multimedia suicide note is nervy, off-time, a little crude at times, but it is an incredibly original, touching show

Comic performance with the write stuff

Regular live-reading show Discombobulate goes from the shambolic to the sublime at The Arches in Glasgow

The outrageous Kim Noble Must Die

The controversial comic has a created an unsettlingly personal, brillant show where suicide and stalking are fair game

Sandi Toksvig on her Christmas cracker

The self-confessed ‘show-off’ talks about her Christmas cabaret show, politics and a crush on Cheryl Cole

The Mighty Boosh's Noel Fielding says that 'Kids are frightened of me'

Taking acid would make me normal, reckons the party boy. Helen Rumbelow finds out more

Comedians’ books aren’t funny

Unfunny books by TV comics filling the Top Ten? Someone’s having a laugh

Four stars for Stewart Lee

What I like best is the way he brings a deeply-felt moral core to work that delights in playing with surfaces

Robin Williams

Fast talking and irreverent, Williams' come-back performance exhilerated the audience though much was basic toilet humour

Frankie Boyle on loves, hates and gobstoppers

The acerbic 37-year-old has recently come under fire for less than flattering swipes at the Queen and Rebecca Adlington

Ken Russell: Check in now for Pam Ann

Come Fly With Me features the confessions of a flight attendant and her sisters-in-stewardry, as enacted by Caroline Reid

Cashing in on the comedy DVD boom

Fuelled by TV, the market in comedy DVDs is booming, especially at Christmas. But which stand-ups are cashing in?

Ben Elton says sorry for Royal Family rant

Comic lambasts Queen, Duke of Edinburgh and children on Australian TV. Spokesman says comments were taken out of context

Ben Elton 'not leaving Britain permanently'

Comedian and writer declares "love and respect" for Britain and said his relocation to Australia was only "temporary"

Meet Britain's most successful comic

Michael McIntyre: Sell-out tour, primetime TV slot. Why so anxious?

Time and place: Laura Solon

The Perrier award-winning comedian, 30, found inspiration while people-watching from her mother’s Pimlico flat

My Hols: Rhod Gilbert

Goat-hunting, bag-losing, cabbage-picking, louse-dodging: it’s all an adventure for the disaster-prone Welsh comic