Jonathan Ross

Jonathan Ross gagged in advert for his show

Motormouth Jonathan Ross is finally gagged - in an advert for his chat show comeback.

Yes, it's yet another talking heads/clips show but it does give us an opportunity to relive some cracking stand-up routines - last week's gave us Eddie Izzard covered in make-up and looking dazzling as he delivered his super skit about school-level French from his 1990s Dress To Kill show. This time, Bill Hicks rightly gets a look-in, as does Lee Evans's ingeniously physical Bohemian Rhapsody routine. Jonathan Ross, Micky Flanagan and Rich Hall are among those sharing their reverence.

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Graham Norton has hit his stride at the BBC, stepping into Jonathan Ross's shoes with a BBC1 talkshow and Radio 2 slot.

Lee Mack's All-Star Cast is a total mess, albeit quite an enjoyable one. The show is an unwieldy composite of comedy, celebrity chat, sketches, stand-up, lookalikes and participation from the studio audience, elevated to the all-star status of the title.

That it works at all is largely down to the heroic efforts of Lee Mack, who grabs the somewhat feeble format by the throat and runs with it, firing off witticisms as he goes.

But there are times when sheer charm and bravado are not enough. As an interviewer Mack is absolutely terrible, suffering from a bad case of Jonathan Ross syndrome, in which a host is so busy thinking up a smart response that he doesn't actually listen to the guest's answer. No great loss when the guest is Shane Richie, going into tedious cod Cockney overdrive, but Henry Winkler may have had something interesting to say about playing The Fonz in cult TV show Happy Days.

Instead he was called upon to judge various competitions and provide a cameo in a shambolic sitcom-style sketch, acting beside the plank that is Ulrika Jonsson. Ulrika needn't prepare her BAFTA acceptance speech quite yet, but she threw herself enthusiastically into the part and proved fair game for several barbed gags at her expense.

Which is All Star Cast's other strength. It may never be accused of being slick and polished, but it does generate surprisingly large quantities of cosy goodwill.

Alan Carr: 'I fear Jonathan Ross clash'

Alan Carr has shared his fear of competing against Jonathan Ross's upcoming ITV chatshow.

This quirky new panel show is based on a format originally created by Jerry Seinfeld, who apparently came up with the idea after persuading a friend to referee during a row with his wife. Unfortunately for him the show initially got withering reviews in America, although it attracted enough viewers to be filed under "cult viewing". Maybe it'll do better on this side of the pond. The idea is that the opinionated panellists (among them Jonathan Ross, James Corden and Sarah Millican) listen to the marital tiffs of real couples, then offer their hopefully amusing opinions before judging who's in the right. The sort of spats they'll pronounce on are whether a wife loves her cat more than her husband (probably) and whether a woman's demand that her hubbie give up skateboarding and grow up is fair (definitely). Ever-amiable host Dermot O'Leary has already tweeted: "Jeremy Kyle punters need not apply."

The first in a new eight-week run of celebrity chat and entertainment with the tongue-in-cheek comedian. Making an appearance tonight are singer and actress Jennifer Lopez, who will perform her latest single I'm into You, and Jonathan Ross, who talks about his new ITV1 show Penn and Teller: Fool Us. Plus, boxer David Haye discusses his forthcoming world heavyweight unification fight against Wladimir Klitschko.

Dermot O'Leary hosts this noisy new entertainment show, which sees real-life couples air their marital tiffs in front of a three-strong celebrity panel. It's a format devised by US comedian Jerry Seinfeld; the American version, which aired Stateside last year, featured such guests as Madonna and Tina Fey. ITV will be hoping its feisty arguments prove palatable to British audiences: they've ordered a seven-week series and booked guests including Jimmy Carr, Geri Halliwell and Jonathan Ross (him again).

Jonathan Ross hits out at BBC

Quizzed by his close mate Alan Carr, 50-year-old chat show king Jonathan Ross takes a swipe at his former employers the BBC.

Well done to the 15,000 people who actually paid for tickets to this comedy marathon a couple of weeks ago at London's cavernous O2 Arena.

It was all in a good cause - for Great Ormond Street - but you can see it without forking out for the Tube fare.

Alan Carr, Dara O'Briain, Lee Evans, Michael McIntyre, Jack Whitehall - if there's a comedian you've heard of but have not got around to seeing in the flesh, they're most probably going to be here.

As Jack Dee drily notes, the backstage area must have been quite an experience - all those comedians sitting around... NOTICING things.

It's hard to pick a standout stand-up, but Sarah Millican is fabulous and Sean Lock goes down a storm with topical gags about Ryan Giggs and Twitter.

And I love the introduction Lock got from Jonathan Ross: "He couldn't be more attractive to the ladies if he was a Take That ticket made of chocolate. That vibrates."