Jon Richardson

A theme runs through the stand-up tonight. All three comics riff on the way people overreact to trivial things. For excellent Kerry Godliman, that means women who think they've lost their purse; for host Rhod Gilbert it's an altercation with the "travelling chef" in a train's buffet car about an egg and cress sandwich. Final act Jon Richardson serves up lovely micro-observations of his slobby housemates and their washing up: "You're doing a baking tray when there's still wine glasses!" he wails, and we feel his pain.

Frazzled Welshman Rhod Gilbert is our energetic host tonight, bringing us another slice of stand-up from the Hammersmith Apollo. Both Gilbert and guest Jon Richardson poke fun at their comic personas. Gilbert takes us through his anger management journal ("sort of a cross between Bridget Jones's Diary and Mel Gibson's"). Richardson makes light of his OCD, moaning about his messy flatmates ("adults who eat cereal at night-time"). Sandwiched between the boys comes likeable Kerry Godliman taking a pop at wedding proposals and bridezillas.

Review: Jon Richardson

Richardson does come unstuck with a closing routine on 'finding himself' in a room full of hippies, but that falls flat because it's just so out of character. Richardson's not about feel-good comedy or happy endings.

Jon Richardson interview

Turning 30 was a milestone for Jon Richardson - in more ways than one. In a typically forthright interview with Radio Teesdale's Peter Dixon, Richardson admits that he spent most of his twenties in isolation, living on his own in Swindon and playing just about any gig he could to pay the bills.

Season 14 of the shouty 8 Out Of 10 Cats, which in the panel show stakes sits somewhere between the enjoyable Would I Lie To You and the creaky Mock the Week. Jimmy Carr - still in the quizmaster's seat - has a newly installed target on his back marked "tax avoider", and team captains Sean Lock and Jon Richardson will likely be the ones taking aim. Nothing in the way of info about this opening episode, but even money says that an Olympian will be present.

Jon Richardson, Apollo Theatre, London

This, and his failed attempts at feminism, are real crowd-pleasers, but they do not feel long enough to savour before the humour returns to the anxious and adolescent.

Review: Jon Richardson - Funny Magnet

Emma McAlpine reviews the latest tour from funny misanthrope and Channel 4's Stand Up For The Week host Jon Richardson.

Jon Richardson - review

Two hours of Richardson worrying about the pronunciation of "an onion" or commentating on a fellow train passenger's packed-lunch technique gives us more insight into his mental state than is probably good for us.

Following the success of last year's special, and as part of Funny Fortnight, Jimmy Carr is back hosting a rematch of Channel 4's MashUp, in which 8 Out of 10 Cats fuses with Countdown. Sean Lock and Jon Richardson face off as team captains, Irish comic David O'Doherty joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner and comedian Joe Wilkinson helps out boffin babe Rachel Riley on the numbers.