Comedy

Ed Byrne has been an acclaimed stand-up (with audiences and critics alike) for 20 years now.

There have been some big changes in Lucy Porter's life recently.

With the world seemingly intent on lurching from one crisis to another, we all need somebody like Stephen K Amos to shine some funny light into our lives.

The popular comedian, one of the regular stars of Mock the Week, is on his biggest nationwide tour to date with his show, Mammoth.

Probably best known for his 18-year stint on BBC 2's music-related panel show Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Phill Jupitus' wide-ranging career has taken in everything from stand-up and TV, to radio acting, poetry and podcasting.

Mothers gathered from all over in a church in Ely to hear the gods of honest parenting, and praise the book of the Scummy Mummies.

Wearing a trilby and a sharp suit, comedian Steve Jameson's foul-mouthed pensioner Sol Bernstein is back with more outrageous remarks.

There are good years and bad years – but can anyone recall another year whose very name became a byword for misery?

Pre-children we were a different version of ourselves. Obviously worse in some ways but undeniably we were more spontaneous, with super-fast metabolisms and less prone to shouting.

There are people who are just brilliant at Christmas.

I felt a bit bad last week when Prince Charles and his good lady wife took time out of doing whatever it is they do to come all the way up to Cambridge and say nice things about the Fitzwilliam Museum, on the occasion of its bicentenary.

Brilliantly exciting Scottish comedian Larry Dean is Custard Comedy's January headliner when the event returns to Comberton.

Pushing the boundaries