The festive holidays have previously been a time when stand up comedians release some of their recent content for the public to buy. It used to be DVDs that could be given as gifts, but of course, more recently that has been a show popping up on streaming services to be enjoyed from the sofa. The pandemic put a bit of a hold on stand up comedians doing what they …

Did you know there's stand up comedy on Apple Music? I just found some recently, stumbled across it by complete accident, and I was surprised. Although, when I really thought about it, it does make sense. Old school stand up comedy used to be released on records, didn't it, with people happily playing their favourite stand up on repeat. I guess with the advent of stand up on DVDs, I'd …

As is often the way, the first part of my December downtime has been spent curled up under a duvet desperately waiting for the hour I can have my next Lemsip. This year, I tried a new tactic of supplementing the real medicine with that other thing that's supposedly even better: laughter. There were a few new stand up shows available on iTunes, those that have presumably also been released …

On Monday night, Mr C and I rocked up to Birmingham's National Indoor Arena to watch Michael McIntyre do his thing. It's been on my Life List for a while to watch a comedian live, because it turns out I have never done that before. I don't remember why it was Mr McIntyre that received the privilege of being my first comedian (there may have been alcohol involved when purchasing …