Michael McIntyre

Review: Brighton Comedy Festival 2013 gala

It was a coup for even the already star-studded Brighton Comedy Festival gala: a rare and unbilled appearance by one Michael McIntyre.

Review: Brighton Comedy Festival Opening Gala

This show had a fresh feel about it despite feeling a little like a pocket-sized C4 Comedy Gala. The surprise special guest was Michael McIntyre, who was greeted with, well, if not a standing ovation certainly a sitting ovation.

5 things you might not know about Stewart Lee

Including links to Alexei Sayle, Bridget Christie, Baconface... and Michael McIntyre.

"Colindale."

"Umm, de-de-de-dum-deh ..... Ealing Broadway."

"Ohh, ohh, ohh, ooohh."

"Yesss."

"Oh, hold up, hold up."

"No, no, no, no, it's the western approach, it's wide open there now."

"Yes."

"Barons Court short."

"Nice."

"Queensway"

"Yeahh."

"Can he do that?"

He surely can. This, ladies and gents of the non-I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue-listening order, is from a transcript of a charming game on the Radio 4 show, entitled "Mornington Crescent".

Charming, that is, for anyone who grew up listening to it with mummy and daddy and fell about to its whimsy; because if you come to it late and are trying to work out the rules, you'll be stymied: there are none. The players simply name stations on the Tube until one utters the Northern Line's least exciting stop. The skill comes in making it seem as though it's a game of strategy. Ha, and indeed, ha.

Now, the best of "middle-class humour", as diverse and hard to pinpoint as that might be, is fantastic. Michael McIntyre's observations are as smooth as Stewart Lee's battering of the mass market is acerbic. But this sort of "if you're not in the club, we're not telling you how to join" nonsense in the name of comedy flies in the very face of middle-class politeness.

Not that we care - never wanted to join your stupid club anyway.

*Walks off in huff*

Comedy gold - Michael McIntyre's Live and Laughing

He may be reviled, but the highest-earning comedian around is this era's Tommy Cooper or Eric Morecambe... and a class act.

The last laugh: another club to close

Sarah Millican, Michael McIntyre and John Bishop have all played the Laugh Inn in the past three years - but it wasn't enough.

Opinion: In praise of Michael McIntyre

Onstage at the Bloomsbury, Michael McIntyre seemed as hungry for laughs as when I saw him playing a converted public toilet on Shepherds Bush Green a decade ago.

Michael McIntyre splashes out on a £2.5m mansion

Michael McIntrye's financial worries are now a thing of the past, as the comedian has proved by splashing out on a new £2.5million six-bedroom mansion.