Peter Kay

Peter Kay pulled out of Sunday Night At The Palladium

Peter Kay pulled out of a £100,000 a show deal to host a glittering new ITV series after snubs from Abba and The Rolling Stones.

Peter Kay to switch on Blackpool illuminations tonight

Bolton comedy legend Peter Kay will be switching on the "big light" in Blackpool tonight.

Peter Kay to switch on Blackpool Illuminations

Peter Kay will switch on this year's Blackpool Illuminations.

Classic interview: Russell Howard

One day your children will say to you "what's a DVD?". You can simply plug their hologooglegizmo into this article and give them the answer. Back in 2009 comedy DVDs were selling by the truckload. People still actually bought things in shops and slid them into machines. While Michael McIntyre, Lee Evans and Peter Kay were the big sellers Russell Howard was comedy's rising star. I interviewed him for The Times in Brighton in sunny June where he was shooting his live DVD for a Christmas release. Five years on Howard is very much in the premier league, taking his feelgood banter around the globe.

Radio Times review

Cracking Saturday night family telly is tough, and bringing in puppets - even Jim Henson puppets - might seem like a last resort. But That Puppet Game Show, in which two celebrities vie for a £10,000 charity prize on a game show presented and staffed entirely by puppets, is no cheap'n'flimsy weekend whimsy. Each puppet, from host Dougie Colon (think Vernon Kay by way of Peter Kay) to softly spoken but ballsy show producer Mancie O'Neill, has a "personality" to go with their distinctively wide, smooth Henson mouths. The celebrities, this week Jonathan Ross and Katherine Jenkins, are game. And the challenges, which are facilitated by small, bendy frankfurters in clothes, are more than likely to raise a laugh from the average sofa.

Wright Way goes wrong: how social media is changing TV

As Ben Elton and Peter Kay feel the heat of Twitter's critics and communal viewing makes a comeback, Mark Lawson asks if broadcasters are running scared.

It may be a bit of an oldie but it's still a goldie, so if what you crave on a Friday night is a cheeky chuckle at the absurdities and pathos of daily life as lived by ordinary folk, then settle down and enjoy Peter Kay thriving off the energy of this sell-out gig, filmed live at Manchester's Arena in 2004, a time when the comedian was contemplating the meaning of life, at the ripe old age of 30. The topical gags may have dated a tad, though.