Sarah Millican

Sarah Millican's secret Santa

RT's regular columnist dishes out presents to her favourite comics, including Jonathan Ross, Jimmy Carr and Stephen Fry...

Pull a cracker for a festive QI with Phill Jupitus, Alan Davies, Danny Baker and RT's Sarah Millican. They are a ribald bunch, leading ringmaster Stephen Fry, resplendent in a luxuriant Santa outfit, to wail: "We have started our family Christmas show just as I'd hoped we would."

Everyone is on fine form and there are some good gags, including one from Fry about Freudians and a light bulb. And we learn why it is always Christmas in Millican's spare bedroom.

The derivation of advertising jingles is just one of the 'quite interesting' facts relayed by jovial host Stephen Fry, today in Father Christmas costume for the QI festive special. Other topics include Twelfth Night - not necessarily on January 6, according to Alan Davies's calculations - and jesus lizards. It's an enjoyable episode, with fun comic diversions including a rant about 'shiny children' that Phill Jupitus cannily uses to deflect from Fry's rather awkward question to Sarah Millican on the subject of kids. Millican may be a popular stand-up, but she's given little chance to shine here, mostly laughing very loudly at the chaps' banter. Danny Baker, meanwhile, gets to show off his obscure knowledge. It's entertaining, but not as much as, say, the 2010 Christmas special, where guest Daniel Radcliffe was used to better effect.

With previous Christmas editions of this quiz focusing on esoteric topics such as "Empire" and "Hocus Pocus", tonight's theme of "Jingle Bells" chimes (pun intended) with the season and sounds altogether merrier. Host Stephen Fry is joined for the ninth yuletide episode by regular panellist Alan Davies and guests Geordie comedian Sarah Millican, broadcaster Phill Jupitus and radio presenter Danny Baker.

Sarah Millican: Laughing all the way

Comedian Sarah Millican is speculating on one of the bizarre uses for spare pants which, she's been told, can be popped on your head to make sure your rollers don't fall out of your hair.

Sarah Millican on award ceremonies

The last time I went to The British Comedy Awards, I lost. The year I didn't go, I won Queen of Comedy. When Shappi Khorsandi and I lost, we dealt with the very close camera by swigging out of a wine bottle (Shappi) and eating a Creme Egg whole (me). Who knows what will happen this year! Best of luck to the nominees.

Sarah Millican comes out supporting page 3 of The Sun

The comic Sarah Millican has saluted The Sun's Page 3 because it champions natural beauty.

Sarah Millican boosts Channel 4's Friday night ratings

Sarah Millican managed to match Alan Carr in terms of viewers on Friday night, early figures indicate.

In her TV appearances RT columnist Sarah Millican comes across as the risqué auntie all the kids want to sit next to at Christmas dinner. She's a little bit naughty and a tiny bit filthy but somehow that warm Geordie accent means she doesn't frighten the relatives.

But in her live shows Millican can afford to be that bit more shocking than TV allows. Watch the faces of a delightfully scandalised audience in Chatterbox Live, which, when it was released as a DVD set an all-time DVD sales record for a female stand-up.

Though the set is of course skewed towards women, Millican has fun saying the unsayable and shocking the men. They don't seem to mind. So buckle up and join Millican as she extols the freedoms of living alone, her love of hamster squeezing and the breathtaking show-and-tell demanded by one of her friends.