Lee Mack

Lee Mack and Daniel Peak's sitcom mainstay lands itself an extended Christmas slot to close off the current series, providing ample time for Lee and Lucy to encounter some supersized escapades. Lee is dragged along for a boisterous night out with his boozehound of a dad, leading to predictably calamitous consequences, not to mention some surprisingly sensuous sashaying to Whitney Houston's finest three minutes. If that's not enough, a compilation of outtakes from the series goes out at 11.05pm on Saturday.

Live comedy DVDs roundup

Featuring Lee Mack, Richard Herring, Al Murray, Jon Richardson, Jim Davidson and Harry Hill.

Review: Lee Mack

Without his constant impressions of hardened Mancunians, it's difficult to imagine how he pads this show out in other cities.

DVD review: Lee Mack - Hit The Road Mack

Lee Mack's brand of comedy feels so old school at times I'm surprised he has brought out a DVD. His demographic would probably prefer it to be on VHS. That's a good joke but maybe a little unfair.

Review: Lee Mack

The encore was simply to invite questions from the floor. A risky strategy but the good folk of Queen of the Midlands delivered - and gave him the perfect material to round off a busy night.

Review: Lee Mack

Lee Mack tells stories of his life, like the best northern comedians, but it was the way he came up with killer lines in response to the crowd that showed off his true star quality.

Radio Times review

Pointless's Alexander Armstrong and Richard Osman guest-star as themselves when Lee and Daisy appear on the blockbuster BBC One/z] daytime quiz show.

Of course there are two big hurdles - Lee (Lee Mack) knows nothing about anything and Daisy (Katy Wix) is so exquisitely stupid she thinks that The Prisoner of Azkaban is a book of the Bible.

This is the perfect comedy set-up and they both fall headfirst into every comic trap that's been carefully built for them, from Lee's woeful knowledge of American presidents to Daisy's pathological insistence on taking absolutely everything she is told, literally (Wix is brilliant, by the way).

Armstrong and Osman have some fun, too, with Armstrong twinkling and flirting with Lee and Daisy's friend Lucy, and Osman becoming a gimlet-eyed avenger when he sees right through a craven Lee.

This week's new live comedy

Previews of Lee Mack, Susan Calman and Sam Simmons.

Lee Mack review

I loved this show and have never laughed so much, leaving the Edinburgh Playhouse on a high and with one certain thought in my mind - that I will certainly return to see Lee Mack next time he graces us with his presence in Edinburgh. Good luck with the rest of the tour.