Dave's One Night Stand

King of Twitter and insurance salesman Chris Addison splits the tvBite office. Features Editor Steve refuses to follow his "middle-class mumbling" on Twitter. Other people are amorously attracted to his angel-faced charm, while our Editor can forgive him everything because he's in The Thick Of It.

Here he does his very-good-but-not-excellent stand-up, making a point of referencing Manchester a couple of times in order to remind viewers that they're not watching Live At The Apollo, they're watching Dave where comedians play their home towns. As Dave Gorman told us recently, "I didn't even know that was part of the deal until I'd signed up because they'd booked me into a theatre in Birmingham and I come from Stafford." Still, it's something on Freeview that's new, good and not on BBC.

Chris Addison on stand-up comedy

"Live at the Apollo changed absolutely everything," muses Chris Addison.

Jason Cook's backstage blog

My day started a bit strangely even for me. I woke up in Eindhoven in Holland having done a weekend of gigs there for their comedy festival.

Chris Addison Interview: One Night Stand

Chris Addison is the first headline act to take to Dave's stage for the second series of its stand-up show. We spoke to the comedian to find out which part of the show we should look out for, and how Billy Connolly's aunties are involved.

Chris Addison interview

An interview with Chris Addison...

Chris Addison interview

Dave's One Night Stand, the series where comics return to their roots to play a special stand-up gig, is back, beginning with The Thick Of It's Chris Addison in his home city of Manchester...

Andi Osho interview

She's a rapidly rising stand up star who thinks we need tough love and would like to get it on with Bill Hicks. Sort of.

Ben Elton performed his first live stand up in a decade in these Dave specials first shown in October. The so-called "Godfather Of Alternative" has become comedy's embarrassing Dad in recent years, what with We Will Rock You and all, but his routines on rebranding and body piercing in particular show that he's still driven by the same moral sense and sarcastic despair at modern life as ever. Jason Byrne and Canadian Tom Stade guest.

TV review: Dave's One Night Stand

So, The Trouble with British Comedy Today, part 109: Jack Whitehall. There, that didn't take long, did it?