Matt Lucas

A few surprises: the petite lady with a tattoo in the audience front row is not, as host Rob Brydon guesses, a beautician. Meanwhile, according to occasional Hollywood-botherer Matt Lucas, Tom Cruise is even shorter than we think. But how short? "One foot." U2 suppport act the Script and ventriloquist/monkey-wrangler Nina Conti complete the guestlist for this welcome second series. It doesn't get any cuddlier.

When a young woman comes out on to Brydon's stage tonight to perform a ventriloquist's act with a monkey puppet, your heart might cringe just like it does during the really eggy bits of Britain's Got Talent.

But don't, whatever you do, choose this particular moment to go and put the kettle on.

Nina Conti provides the biggest laughs and the best surprise in the return of Brydon's chummy chat show. Considering that his other guest is Matt Lucas, that's an achievement Nina should be very proud of.

And yes, since you're wondering, she is Tom Conti's daughter.

Elsewhere, there's music from Irish rockers The Script and even more music from Matt and Brydon himself.

The line between who are the guests and who is the host on this show is nicely blurred and if it weren't for the studio audience you could imagine this working just as well in Brydon's living room.

The best interview questions come from the audience, and there's some lively banter at the top of the show as we meet The Most Easily Shocked Woman in Britain.

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