Stephen Hawking

David Walliams and Catherine Tate film new sketch

What a kerfuffle! David Walliams brings back his Little Britain character Lou to film a Comic Relief sketch with Stephen Hawking and Catherine Tate.

Stephen Hawking joins Brian Cox on Monty Python Live

Scientist Prof Stephen Hawking is teaming up with Monty Python for their reunion shows. Prof Hawking, director of research at Cambridge University's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology, will appear in the show at London's O2 with Prof Brian Cox.

Three episodes in, and Jack Whitehall's brilliantly silly comedy has lost none of its charm. A new craze in the school, a violent video game, causes uproar. Can hapless teacher Alfie (Whitehall) convince his class that the brain is the greatest weapon of all? And more importantly, who would win in a fight between Stephen Hawking and a shark...? Yes, okay, it's quite similar to a certain early noughties C4 school-set comedy-drama in its set-up - irresponsible teacher whose maturity mirrors that of his pupils - but it's clearly a formula that works. And those of the right age to remember Teachers are likely to forgive the similarities once they've seen Alfie's failed attempts to explain the wonder of 'Pogs' to a class of modern-day 15-year-olds. It's crude, it's silly, but it's very, very funny.

Kevin Bishop Interview

The Kevin Bishop Show is back next week for another round of television trashing and celeb mocking. This series, Cheryl Cole, Kerry Katona and Stephen Hawking are among the unfortunate elite of celebrity targets being bashed by the Bishop.

In Channel 4's British Comedy Award-winning Star Stories, Kevin Bishop was a revelation. Each week his schoolboy-cheeky caricatures of everyone from Tom Cruise to Alex Ferguson stole the show. So Channel 4 gave him his own sketch show.

The pilot earlier this year was, not to put too fine a point on it, poor. All the more reason to rejoice that this first episode of the series proper is in a different league, with a string of impishly silly, very funny ideas, mostly film or TV spoofs.

It doesn't hurt that the pace is ridiculously fast: if you don't like one skit, don't worry, another will be along in seconds.

There's the Daily Mail DVD giveaway that includes Bruce Forsyth's try-out for The Shining; there's Pimp My Ride with Stephen Hawking; there's Sophie's Choice - The Musical; and a visit to Simon Cowell's brother Brian, who runs a convenience store in Rotherham. Best of all there's a running joke about Jonathan Ross that makes it safe to assume Bishop won't be invited on the former's chat show any time soon.