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Christmas DVDs round-up - stand-up comedy specials

Stocking fillers from Micky Flanagan, Tom Stade, Reginald D Hunter, Jack Dee & Bill Bailey reviewed.

'Tis the season to buy jolly DVDs

It was Super Monday this week - the comedy industry's equivalent to Super Thursday, when publishers flood the bookshops with celebrity memoirs and other sure-sellers for the festive market. So on Monday DVDs by Miranda Hart, Reginald D. Hunter, Micky Flanagan, Jack Dee, Eddie Izzard, Jimmy Carr, Bill Bailey, Seann Walsh, Keith Lemon and others hit the shelves.

Video: Bill Bailey talks 'Qualmpeddler'

In the busy comedy Christmas DVD marketplace, Bill Bailey manages to stand out from the crowd.

Bill Bailey interview

The bearded, bald and brilliant behemoth of stand-up comedy says that this tour is his last. For now. Time Out finds out what else is on Bill Bailey's to-do list.

For an episode entitled Keeps, Stephen Fry introduces a one-off round called "Keep Still or Scarper", turning on whether it's safer to run away or freeze when confronted with certain wild animals. His demonstration of how to proceed if you bump into a pack of wolves (roaring like an angry Victorian gentleman, basically) makes you long to see the confrontation for real.

Elsewhere, there are insights into whether ants can hold their drink, the smile of a bowhead whale and a dispute between Fry and Bill Bailey about Welsh accents. Also adding to the fun - Sarah Millican and Jason Manford.

Comedians out in force to protest kazoo ban

Led by comedians Mark Thomas and Bill Bailey, alongside Billy Bragg, the crowd were demonstrating over proposals by Camden Council to require buskers to hold a licence to play a wind and percussion instrument.

Bill Bailey: Qualmpeddlar, Brighton Centre, Brighton

The great comedian holds Brighton's biggest venue in thrall with ease.

Bill Bailey: I couldn't do music without comedy

Bill Bailey doesn't do grumpy. For the loveable bearded comedian, there's no time to be cynical when there are so many weird and wonderful things out there to explore.

Bill Bailey - review

There's plenty of straight stand-up tonight, but the best of Bailey's material comes back, as ever, to sound.

Bill Bailey interview

Bill Bailey talks politics, the trouser press, and the the many pets his family has to feed.