Madness singer Suggs will perform in a star-studded evening of music to raise money for Pancreatic Cancer UK.

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

Combining stand-up with jazz is a winning formula, says Alice Jones

The tortured mophead seeks a comic cure

Chris Langham excels as cowed Tom Thompson, a well-off family man who bonds with a damaged stranger, Blake ("Sometimes I just come here and cry"), by a peaceful pond.

There are moments when I wonder if the air conditioning at The Stand will add undue weight to the already pregnant pauses between some of Phill Jupitus's routines. The Never Mind the Buzzcocks regular hasn't done stand up for 10 years and he admits that he is "feeling his way back in".

On his journey from cult Edinburgh Fringe favourite to big venue comic, Mark Watson has notched up the kinds of TV appearances a graduating stand up might be expected to make, including Mock the Week and Never Mind the Buzzcocks, but it's clear tonight that performing to his largest live audience yet is the feather in his cap that is tickling him the most.

Slight stand-up Simon Amstell has again turned his lashing tongue to the abuse of a music-based national treasure.

Multi-platinum-selling pop-opera sensation Groban doesn't get much of a fair hearing this side of the Atlantic.

Ever since Popworld, Amstell has come across as a highly intelligent yet awkwardly anxious geek – and his stand-up is no different.