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Fringe performers get married ahead of Fringe

John Hinton performs with his partner Jo Eagle. They got together in 2013 and quickly decided to do a show together - his last, Albert Einstein: Relativitively Speaking. Jo played Einstein's wife Elsa, and they ended up touring the world together with it and fell in love.

David Walliams: Doing comedy forever would get boring

David Walliams speaks to Metro about his work for Sport Relief, having Michael Caine as a fan and kissing Will Young on Parkinson.

Robert Downey Jr was last on the show in 2009, promoting Guy Ritchie's film Sherlock Holmes. He declared it "the strangest show I've ever been on" as Norton turned his back on the star and played around on his laptop for several minutes.

Downey Jr then had to use a flannel to wipe custard-pie foam off the face of fellow guest, comedian Ed Byrne, before listening to Will Young singing.

None of this seems to have put him off returning to talk about Ritchie's sequel, Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, although this time he's got his Watson (Jude Law) to keep him company, and plenty else to talk about in the form of his second child, who's due in February.

Will Young dresses up as Sinitta for Buzzcocks

Singer Will Young tries to be So Macho - dressed in all yellow as 1980s pop star Sinitta.

I just recorded Never Mind The Buzzcocks. It's quite an odd experience these days, post-Amstell. He used to chat to the pop guests so much it felt like Parkinson. Nowadays they don't get much attention at all. And the rounds whizz by with markedly less banter because whoever's hosting tends to try and follow producers' instructions, which generally run along the lines of 'stop those people talking about anal sex' or whatever the riff du jour is.

Strangely, after 25 series, Buzzcocks is starting to resemble a pop quiz again.

Still - I was never much good at banter so it suits me quite well to sit there and finish off the odd song lyric. I wore a suit, if you like that kind of thing. The show was hosted by Will Young, who is charming. And it mostly centres around Paul Foot. Who is very funny. You can watch it on Halloween night, if you're not too busy dressing as a cat or Satan.

Another fun show from the affable Mr Brydon tonight, with music from Will Young, stand up from Phil Wang (a self-proclaimed fat Chinese man who looks like Michael 'wobbly head' McIntyre) and star presence from Dame Edna Everage.

She's "the greatest woman that's ever lived", says Rob - do you want to tell him, or shall I?

Edna might not live up to Rob's statement, but she makes for bloomin' good telly and you have to keep reminding yourself whose show it is.

It's the audience that has the best laughs, including one real-life Gil Grissom who got locked in with some stiffs and a woman who found her dream man by the side of a road.

Back to our guests, and Will makes the mistake of trying to outdo a ­comedian. As Dame Edna eyes her fists, he should well look nervous - Dragons' Den Hilary Devey's huge rings are catching on.

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.

Actress, writer and now, presenter: Ruth Jone, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey, hosts a light mix of chat, music and larks. It's going nationwide this Christmas after debuting in Wales last year. Music comes from indie-rock milquetoasts the Script, while places on the sofa are reserved for Ricky Gervais, Will Young and Miranda Hart.

There's no Gavin & Stacey this Christmas, but as a consolation we are offered up this new mix of chat, music and sketch comedy from the sitcom's co-creator Ruth Jones, aka Nessa. Her guests will include Ricky Gervais (without whom, it seems, no chat show is complete), Miranda Hart (of BBC Two's Miranda) and pop crooner Will Young.

Audiences for Tina Fey's comedy series 30 Rock are so tiny, both in its native America and over here where it's shown on Comedy Central, that they are barely visible to the naked eye. Yet critical acclaim has been so overwhelming and the awards so numerous (it's won Golden Globes and Emmys) that Fey, 30 Rock's creator, writer and lead actor, is now a huge star with a Hollywood film career. Her latest movie, Date Night starring The (US) Office's Steve Carell, is out in Britain shortly. She also became so notorious for her deadly impressions of Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live ("I can see Russia from my house!") that she was widely credited with torpedoing Palin's vice-presidential hopes. Fey's a bright, witty woman who sparkles in interviews so Ross won't have to work too hard tonight. Sharing sofa-space with Fey are the chef with the Bunsen burner, Heston Blumenthal, and actor Aaron Johnson, who played John Lennon in the Brit-flick Nowhere Boy. Groove Armada featuring Will Young provide the music.