Laurie Taylor

The Establishment Club make a return appearance

The first event will take place on December 15 and the eclectic line-up includes Scott Capurro, Professor Laurie Taylor, Man Booker prize-winning novelist Howard Jacobson, Scottish comic Arnold Brown and music from Niggaz with Croissants and other surprise guests. As before Keith Allen will be master of ceremonies.

Stephen Fry: In Confidence, Sky Arts

When a celebrity lets their public mask slip, something wonderful and also disconcerting can happen: they can noticeably become someone else. If they're lucky, that change can be so marked that they become just another face in a crowd. Of course, if he were in a police line-up, I'm sure I'd have no problem picking out Stephen Fry, but something of that discernable physical shift happened in last night's In Confidence, when Fry appeared in the interview hot seat with Laurie Taylor.

The quartet of R4 presenters - Evan Davis, Libby Purves, Peter White and Laurie Taylor - who walked the comedy plank for Red Nose Day in Stand-Up For Comic Relief didn't exactly bring the house down.

In the video on the R4 website, Davies looked so far out of his comfort zone one could hardly bear to watch, while 73-year-old Taylor, a more natural humourist, seemed quite at home pacing the stage, cracking jokes. However it was White who had the edge by virtue of his comedian's voice and his lack of inhibition about doing disability jokes. Who else but a blind person would dare do jokes about being blind? The public voted him the winner by a wide margin.

My one night stand-up

What's it like to get up in front of a room full of people and try to make them laugh, for the first time? At 72, Magazine columnist Laurie Taylor took a belated and brief plunge into the notoriously tough world of that stand-up comedy. Features a video of his performance.