Veronica Lee

Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle, BBC Two

One of the great pleasures of being a critic is watching a career develop, and Stewart Lee's is one that I've had the pleasure of, so to speak, for many years. I'm not a Stewart Lee completist but I enjoyed his early days on television with comedy partner Richard Herring in Fist of Fun (just about to be released on DVD for the first time) and This Morning With Richard Not Judy, his solo stand-up shows, his work on the wonderfully subversive Jerry Springer: The Opera and much, much more in between.

Jeremy Lion: not in front of the children

The puppet is scary, the props are useless, and then there's the Special Brew. Justin Edwards on his return to the Fringe as Jeremy Lion.

Doc Brown: rapper to comedian

Zadie Smith's brother Ben, aka Doc Brown, has turned his hip hop career into material for a standup show.

Horne & Corden is not something to celebrate

It shows the depths that comedy on BBC3 has plumbed when the corporation crows about the car crash that was Horne & Corden.

Writer James Wood hilariously skewers so many targets - self-obsessed luvvies, disingenuous media types, pretentious foodies, charlatan TV 'experts', to name but a few - that one fears he might never eat lunch in this town again. Indeed, I suspect some scores were being settled - to great comedic effect - by both writer and cast. And Freezing is stuffed so full of gags that you might want to record it while you're watching and replay it immediately to catch the jokes drowned out by your loud laughter. A gem.