Given that David Baddiel's first stand up show for 16 years apparently arose out of an educational talk, the George Square Theatre (a lecture hall for the rest of the year), is a venue match made in heaven. It's also a far cry from the comedian's Wembley Arena days of rock n' roll comedy.

Alice Jones' Arts Diary

A funny thing happened on the way to the limo …

This year's Edinburgh festival is a good place to start

Imagine – Woody Allen: a Documentary, BBC1

Focus is increasingly on T20 slog-fest which is making money – but not quality cricketers

It's Lbbp from Hrrng on the planet Fnrr!

Like so much of the alternative comedy legacy (like political correctness) the passion for originality has been lost

Comic aims a punch(line) at high-profile fellow stand-ups who use writers

The finalist's one company has a net worth of £200

Men are more competitive and 'that's possibly what works'

The only person Louis CK follows in Twitter

Stand up if you're in a mid-life crisis

Would you help yourself to a holdall of cash abandoned in a phone box? Or intervene in a restaurant if a customer was subject to racist abuse from a waiter? You’d take the cash, buy the restaurant and sack the waiter – of course, you would. Not everyone is like you, though, oh heroic reader.