Rob Brydon

Comedian, voice actor and Steve Coogan's perfect foil, Rob Brydon chats about his much-garlanded career, from Marion & Geoff to Gavin And Stacey, and all points inbetween. Preceding an interview is a repeat showing for the superb and painfully accurate 2002 comedy-drama Cruise Of The Gods, starring Brydon and Coogan as former actors from a 1980s kids' sci-fi show enduring a fan convention aboard an ocean liner. Watch out for a cameo from Russell Brand, infamously booted off the shoot for drugs'n'strippers-style shenanigans.

Rob Brydon's early years: autobiography extract

In 1994, actor and comedian Rob Brydon was a star - of corporate events and ads for Ribena. Then Hollywood came calling: what could possibly go wrong? Allow him to explain...

Rob Brydon on his love of clothes shopping and DIY

What's your perfect way to wake up on a Saturday? After 9am, but it never happens with the kids. Then I'd go downstairs and have some breakfast!

If you're still laughing at the memory of Rob Brydon and Nick Hewer sharing an orange cuddle jumper last week, tune in tonight for some more fibbing fun.

David Mitchell's mate Robert Webb joins the panel tonight and would have us believe he once had so many imaginary friends they formed a gang.

Also on David's team is Sir Terry Wogan, with totally absurd stories that might or might not be true. Either way, he enjoys himself telling them.

It's almost impossible NOT to grin like an idiot all the way through as everyone is having such a good time. But it's in the cross-examination where this show really takes off.

It seems that inside every panellist is a barrister dying to get out and if the comedy thing ever dries up, somewhere out there is a horsehair wig with Lee Mack's name on it.

Katy Wix, Kevin Bridges and host Rob Brydon join in tonight's gleeful grilling.

Lee Mack and David Mitchell's quick-witted cross examinations are by far the best bits of this show, and tonight they get to bounce off Terry Wogan, who claims, among other things, that he likes to fire a loaded pistol every Christmas. The broadcasting legend also gives Rob Brydon an excuse to roll out his impression.

Terry Wogan is on the panel this evening, so you know it's only a matter of time before host Rob Brydon employs his scarily accurate impersonation of the great broadcaster. But he's not the only one present with a facility for accents, as comedian Kevin Bridges proves when he drops his Scottish brogue quicker than you can say "John Barrowman".

As ever, though, it's the forensic cross-examinations that make the show, particularly those directed at Sir Terry, who has to convince the opposing team that he performs minor acts of arson for kicks and begins his Christmas Day celebrations in a most unorthodox manner. You'll also get a strange buzz when he says the words "blank" and "blanks" again after so many years.

I really don't know what they're giving panellists before they go on this show.

The start of series five dissolves into a puddle of infectious hysteria that has more than one of the cast absolutely weeping with laughter.

I blame The Apprentice's Nick Hewer, who kicks off proceedings with a wonderfully straight-faced tale of how he and Lord Sugar like to relax after a tough day's filming in the boardroom.

He's a very welcome addition to the line-up, proving that you don't have to be a professional stand-up to get big laughs on this show.

Team captains Lee Mack and David Mitchell are also joined this week by Jack Whitehall and Rebecca Front as well as Miranda Hart.

The latter is reduced to helpless tears of mirth by her own very unlikely sounding tale about trying out for QPR's women's football team. But it's host Rob Brydon's own demonstration of a cuddle jumper that really brings the house down.

While much of Would I Lie To You? would work almost as well on radio, the cuddle jumper is an item of clothing which absolutely must be seen to be fully enjoyed.

A perfect blend of innocent silliness and razor-sharp wit, Would I Lie To You? is still the perfect way to wind down for the weekend.

And this might just be the funniest episode ever.

When Rob Brydon launched this chat show last year, he said he was interested only in interviewing guests whose work he respected. That may sound like the kind of hot air any obsequious chat show host would spout, but in Brydon's case it may actually be true: among his guests in his two series to date have been Bruce Forsyth, Tom Jones, Ronnie Corbett and Terry Wogan, all of whom Brydon is well known to admire. Tonight's guest is another lifelong favourite of Brydon's, and indeed of most people in Britain who enjoy comedy: the majestic Dame Edna Everage, who's still going strong at... well, it wouldn't do to mention a lady's age, now, would it? There will also be a song from Will Young, and some stand-up from the startlingly young Phil Wang. We're sure Dame Edna will have the good taste not to draw attention to that surname.

Comedy Britain proved that Barker was the funny one

Ronnie Corbett's Comedy Britain saw the comedian cavort with David Walliams, Ken Dodd and Rob Brydon, but once again it failed to raise a laugh.

Ronnie's brand of humour might not be to everyone's taste, but as one half of one of Britain's greatest comedy duos, he is entitled to a little introspection in his old age. In the concluding episode of his two-part series, the legendary comedian cavorts with fellow comics Harry Hill, David Walliams and Rob Brydon in an effort to understand what inspired them to carve out a career making people laugh.