Cult US comedian George Carlin dies

Irreverent stand-up, whose "Seven Words You Can Never Say On TV" act changed US censorship law, suffers heart failure

Garfield: proving, at 30, that sloth and lasagne pay off

Happy birthday to the world's sloppiest cat

Hattie Hayridge and Norman Lovett

Red Dwarf fans were delighted but for the rest of the audience this was a comedy pairing without much to laugh about

How will we ever get over the Humph?

Humphrey Lyttelton was loved by millions but known only by a few; yet it's hard to know who could take his place

Has mainstream success softened Harry Hill?

Achievements at ITV1 seem to have freed him to be even more daft and disdainful as he reaches for something wilder and weirder

Comedy is the new rock'n'roll (again)

Why have so many comedians worked with bands? “We are all fractured egomaniacs,” says stand-up comedian Phill Jupitus

The unholy trinity

Introducing stand-up’s answer to the Three Tenors: the Three Fellas – a trio of Ireland’s funniest comics

Gina Yashere at Fairfield Halls, Croydon

The black comedian has the attitude and poise to carry off jokes about race but her routine needs tighter editing

Top Five Comedy: Tim Vine: Punslinger

Glorious gags and goofing around, unfettered by anything so dour as the real world, at the Playhouse, Epsom

Are you game for a laugh?

Win the chance to be on the if.comedy Awards panel at Edinburgh in August

Daniel Kitson

The 2002 Perrier-winner may be among our most talented comedians, but his approach feels more like instrcting than sharing

Time and Place: Craig Hill: Life in posh Eastleigh

The Eurobeat star had an exceedingly good time

Tim Vine

The Punslinger's not cool, edgy or cynical, just wonderfully daft with a dizzying collection of stupid one-liners

Top Five Comedy: Dara O’Briain

A reliably funny live performer, if you’ve only seen him on Mock the Week, you don’t know the half of it

Top Comedy: Ten Best Stand-ups in the World

Presented by Stewart Lee and featuring the Irish comic Will Adamsdale’s unmissable Perrier-winner Jackson’s Way

The Ten Best Stand-ups in the World . . . Ever

Johnny Vegas's return to stand-up was bigger on sexual harassment than on one-liners

Top Five Comedy: Dara O’Briain

Massively entertaining new show from one of the brightest, most inventive comics in the country

Johnny Vegas revealed as mystery comedian

After much speculation, Johnny Vegas has been unveiled as the mystery star of a Bloomsbury Theatre show

Comedy's men of mystery: who do we think they are

More and more star comedians are road-testing their new material in secret club gigs before risking it on tour

Auto Auto Riverside Studios, W6

For 80 minutes, they hurl themselves around the stage while vigorously smashing up an old car with sledgehammers