Timeghost 24: Answering the puritans and goodbye for now

Craig and Martin sign off with your emails on censorship and try to create their own 'sachsgate'

Mother Goose

It’s big, it’s brash and this production is pitched perfectly. The drawback is that it is too long, but what panto isn't?

Timeghost 23: Mocked-Up Misery Memoirs and PC Pantos

Craig and Martin create their own misery memoir

Cruel to be kind of funny

Why the heir to Billy Connolly’s throne won't appease the complainers

Timeghost 22: Seasons greetings and crime reconstructions

Craig and Martin say seasons greetings and ponder why crime reconstructions are so awkward to film

The credit crunch promises cheap laughs

Comedy clubs are having to pull their horns in with cheaper shows, though the big names have proved immune so far

Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People

Robin Ince’s mix of variety night and Royal Institution Christmas lecture has enough epiphanies to make it worth the effort

Sunset Boulevard

There are sketchy moments, but the playing and the tunes come up fresh enough to make it worth the bother

Timeghost 21: Naff, Soho and overreacting to obscenity

Craig and Martin tackle the origins of the word 'naff' and the new puritanism in public life

The prisoners receiving stand-up comedy lessons

Despite tabloid outrage, lessons in stand-up comedy for prisoners can yield rewards for society, finds Bruce Dessau

Timeghost 20: Method acting and class

Craig and Martin tackle two of their biggest cultural bugbears

Alan Carr sorry for Karen Matthews gag

Comedian told reporters at comedy awards that Matthews was "gay icon", adding: "People like a bit of rough don't they?"

The comics making rationalism funny

If Britain’s best stand-ups are to be believed, there is no God. We discover how rationalism got funny

Graham Norton reveals his alter ego

The star explains why donning drag for his stage-musical debut makes him feel absolutely terrified: and relatively butch

Timeghost 19: Kerry Katona goes 'Furp!'

Craig and Martin are concerned that the former Atomic Kitten might not be at her best

It moved me: DC Thomson

The comedian takes a trip down memory lane to the world of slipper-wielding dads and sausage-studded mashed potato.

Eddie Izzard — Stripped - the Sunday Times review

As he’s worked and lived in America for a while, it’s creationists who come under his surprisingly aggressive attack

Frankie Boyle

Frankie Boyle doesn’t so much distance himself from unacceptable sentiments as distance himself from any sentiment

Spike Milligan has the last laugh

Auction buyers pay thousands for the late Goon's old jokes

John Shuttleworth

If Shuttleworth overstates his cares then we all recognise the place of mild moral outrage they come from