Frank Skinner

Josh Widdicombe: My Comedy Hero... Frank Skinner

When I was a kid, Frank Skinner was the comedian I looked up to. There were various ones I was into like Jack Dee and Vic & Bob, but I loved Fantasy Football, because I was a big football fan.

Frank Skinner: Man in a Suit

Welcome return to stand-up after six years.

The Stand-up: Frank Skinner (Soho Theatre, London)

Frank Skinner is back, with his first stand-up show in six years, Man in a Suit, designed for smaller theatres rather than stadium tours.

First night review: Frank Skinner

Clown prince of laddism smartens up his act, but he could let rip.

Comedy review: Frank Skinner, Man In A Suit

Depth is lacking though - or at least, dwelling on a subject long enough to anchor this 90-minute show. Instead it's a drifter. Highly accomplished and very funny, but a drifter all the same.

Frank Skinner interview

Ahead of his return to stand-up, Frank Skinner explains why it's important to challenge sacred cows.

Frank Skinner interview

Before his hotly anticipated return to stand-up, the multi-talented and enduringly popular Frank Skinner opens up about sex, booze and Joan Bakewell.

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Hal Cruttenden, Stewart Lee and Frank Skinner.

Over each new Saturday night game show hangs the spectre of Don't Scare the Hare. Remember it? In 2011, the floppy-eared flop was pulled from BBC1 before the first series ended. It came at a time when the thinking was that shows needed crazy set gimmicks: a robotic hare, a moving wall with a hole in, an Olympic diving pool. Tonight's new arrival doesn't bother with that; it just cranks up the idea of a celebrity quiz to such heights of fizzing, demented hilarity that it's hard not to get swept along.

Frank Skinner and Micky Flanagan lead two teams answering British-themed questions from Gabby Logan. The Mayor of High Wycombe and the London School of Samba add local colour, and guest Charlotte Salt (from Casualty) gets a merciless ribbing on her surname. It's that kind of show.