Jimmy Carr

A wonderfully enjoyable edition opens with Jimmy Carr claiming that he was given coffee in his bottle as a baby and progresses through the idea that Susanna Reid may have held the Breakfast team's speed record for drinking a pint of beer ("How big are your glugs?" enquires host Rob Brydon) and that Dave Myers of The Hairy Bikers once spent Christmas locked inside a bank.

All these prompt enjoyable cross-examination but, as so often, it's David Mitchell's mock-exasperation that really lights the comic touchpaper. "We've been doing this show for a thousand years!" he wails at one point to Lee Mack. "I know everything about you, including the fact that you did not learn to drive in a hearse."

Opinion: Carr trouble

So anyway, Jimmy Carr did his set and got heckled. A good comedian should be able to win an angry mob around and that's kind of what Carr did, eventually closing with a version of Sweet Caroline when someone shouted "give us a song".

Interview: Stewart Francis - Part #2

Today Francis discusses his contemporaries - namely Tim Vine, Milton Jones and Jimmy Carr - finding his comedy rhythm, the Lumberjacks re-union tour with pals Craig Campbell and Glenn Wool and a possible chat show in the works.

Giant Jimmy Carr head finally sells

More than a year after it was purchased, a 14ft replica of Jimmy Carr has finally been sold.

Review: Jimmy Carr, Hammersmith Apollo

Unacceptable behaviour this weekend at Jimmy Carr's gig. Not from the occasional controversialist but from part of his audience.

This, believe it or not, is the seventh series of Would I Lie to You?. A hardy perennial then, which seems to suggest that casting, not format is the most important factor in the success of a panel show. The competitive comic chemistry between posh pedant David Mitchell and ruthlessly efficient robo-quipper Lee Mack sustains the show, and Rob Brydon is a likeable host too.

A few of the rougher edges have been smoothed out over the years - WILTY? occupies a pre-watershed slot these days, so we can probably forget about any more appearances from Frankie Boyle or Jimmy Carr. But it remains really watchable Friday evening fare.

Should reviewers review the show or their experience?

I had a difficult time working out how to write a fair review of Jimmy Carr at the Hammersmith Apollo at the weekend. I'm not the biggest fan of Carr's sometimes brutal one-liners but I thought he was pretty good. The trouble is that it is hard to say the show was an unqualified success for me when the person three seats down was shouting "Dirty Bitch" at the stage.

This will be interesting. As this scrappy topical comedy show returns for a third go at providing a credible homegrown answer to The Daily Show (good luck with that), we can't help but wonder just how, er, taxing co-host Jimmy Carr will find tonight's live appearance, having become the story, à la Deayton, in the interim. As to what subjects will be pounced on by Mitchell, Brooker and Laverne, your guess is as good as ours. Though North Korea and Baroness T will probably still be due a glib couple of minutes apiece.

The comic current affairs show returns with David Mitchell, Charlie Brooker, Lauren Laverne and Jimmy Carr sinking satirical claws into the week. Late-night political satire is a fixture of US television and if they got it right here, it could be a buzzy alternative to Question Time. So far 10 O'Clock Live has only shown flashes of that, but Mitchell is a better interviewer than you'd expect and his longer pieces, along with Brooker's Screenwipe-ish rants, mean the show is always good in parts.

Stewart Lee: Where are all the right-wing stand-ups?

Yes, Jimmy Carr avoided tax and the BNP loves Al Murray's Pub Landlord, but it's hard to find a comedian who votes Tory.