Jason Manford

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.

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.

You know when gameshow hosts make that tired old joke that goes along the lines of, "We called up the biggest names in showbiz ... but they were all busy"? Well, that's no longer a joke, more something they are legally obliged to declare. Jason Manford and Peter Andre are among those picking the "Odd One In" from up to four possible candidates, such as guessing who is the real hula dancer or cockney from a lineup. Gameshows are supposed to kill time, this one makes time run backwards.

Jason Manford & Alex Jones talk about The One Show

Christine Bleakley may have made enemies at the BBC after quitting The One Show.
But she's done wonders for the careers of stand-up comic Jason Manford and little-known Alex Jones.

Full marks to whoever booked the panellists on tonight's Would I Lie To You?. It's a solid gold line-up this week. Joining David Mitchell, Lee Mack and Rob Brydon are Ruth Jones, Jason Manford, Jack Dee and Peter Serafinowicz - taking a break from what is practically a full-time job of filling the Twitter-verse with surreal one-liners.

This week they're all bringing their best poker faces to some very tall tales involving Ray Charles, a tortoise, a human sausage, a cheese and onion sandwich, Lee Mack's life expectancy, and David Mitchell's battery-buying habits.

And Rob Brydon's getting in on the act as well with his own true or false questions - did he really once steal Catherine Zeta-Jones' lunch money?