Jason Manford

A repeat of C4's live comedy extravaganza from London's 02 Arena earlier this year in which 23 of our funniest people (and Michael McIntyre) competed to win our laughs in aid of Great Ormond Street Children's Charity. Take your pick from Alan Carr, Noel Fielding, Catherine Tate, Bill Bailey, Mitchell & Webb, Jack Dee, Jack Whitehall, Kevin Eldon, Lee Evans, Rob Brydon, Sean Lock, Jo Brand, Jason Manford, Fonejacker, Andy Parsons and Shappi Khorsandi. Phew.

Robert Llewellyn's online show comes to TV. The premise is simplicity itself: Llewellyn drives a guest around in his car and has a nice chat. He picks up comedians Rufus Hound and Jason Manford (who uses this as a money-saving way to get dropped off at his job at The One Show). There's no dangerous driving, and the only tension comes when they wait for a traffic light to change. It's pleasant with no attempt to "sex it up". The opposite, thankfully, of car crash television.

"A chat show in my motor," is how Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf) describes his series. A hit on the web, the show now makes its TV debut on Dave. Llewellyn is a pleasant enough chap, sitting behind the wheel of his Toyota Prius, making small talk with his passenger, but is there mileage in their chummy chats? No. The fact that his first guests are The One Show's Jason Manford and comic Rufus Hound says it all.

Some chat show interviews don't go anywhere, but that can't be said of Robert Llewellyn's new talk show. That's because he picks up his interviewees and gives them a lift to wherever they want. How we didn't want to label this Robert Llewellyn's new vehicle. Alas, we're just not that strong. What is fresh, though, is Robert's approach to the chat show, as he gives his guests - who include Jason Manford, Rob Brydon and David Baddiel - a ride to wherever they fancy in return for a natter along the way.

Jason Manford in trouble for Twitter rant

Jason Manford will this week face a dressing down from BBC bosses over his criticism of the corporation.

It shouldn't work but it does: you take natural history films, put silly voices over the animals and edit it into sketches. With input from the likes of Jason Manford, the result is the kind of thoroughly, joyously daft comedy that is custom-made for adults and children to enjoy together, TV Burpstyle, on a Saturday evening. And the hit rate seems to have improved from the last series. There are plenty of splutteringly funny sequences, many involving seals. Highlights include elephants with appalling hangovers and a dolphin doing "head farts" (I didn't say it was sophisticated).

Jason Manford criticises BBC for Help for Heroes edit

Jason Manford, a presenter on the BBC's The One Show, has criticised the corporation after it edited out a joke he made during a charity concert.

Jason Manford raps BBC

The One Show host Jason Manford has accused BBC bosses of a "cover-up" after he claimed wounded servicemen and women were being let down.

I'm not even sure it can be described as a comedy: it wasn't even vaguely funny. Jason Manford made a few valiant attempts to shore up the laughter quotient but, on the whole, no luck. The basic premise was that two teams of two (in this instance, regulars Manford and, inexplicably, Peter Andre versus guests Lorraine Kelly and Julian Clary) compete to see who was better able to spot the "odd one in" of four strangers. For instance: who here really is a cockney? Which animal can actually skateboard? Who's not just pretending to hula-hoop? A bit like spotting the odd one out, except the other way around. Clever! Not really: Never Mind the Buzzcocks has been doing this for years, only for them it's a throw-away round, not the basis of the entire programme.

Jason Manford: 'I'm a cut-price Chiles'

Jason Manford has joked that he is a "cut-price" version of Adrian Chiles.