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What’s on TV tonight: Stand Up & Deliver continues to be excruciating and hilarious The i 3/4/2021 Gerard Gilbert Pick of the day: Stand Up & Deliver 9pm, Channel 4 Anyone catching last week’s show in which minor celebrities were mentored in the high-wire act of live stand-up comedy will want to know whether it was all right on the night. The Rev Richard Coles, Baroness Sayeeda Warsi, Curtis Pritchard, Katie McGlynn and Shaun Ryder attempt to entertain a 300-strong audience (virtual and in real life) – and as David Baddiel says: “Judgement is very concrete.” It’s...

TV Editor Tonight's top telly includes the return of Goodbye House, long-running music show Other Voices, Ashford Castle, some more First Dates Ireland and the final of dog-grooming show Pooch Perfect . . . Pick of the Day This pretty daft but ultimately enjoyable show returns for a new run. In case you missed it last time around, it’s about people planning to move house who - rather than do their own ground work - let friends and family find them a new home. First up, we’ve got a businesswoman from county Cork who is looking for a fresh start as well as a new gaff after her divorce.

David Baddiel and Rev Richard Coles in Stand Up & Deliver Credit: Channel 4 Do you ever have that feeling where you’re so interested in something you can hardly hear it? It’s so gripping, your ears freeze up with a sort of overattentiveness? It’s like the opposite of glazing over with boredom (a skill with which I’ve never been blessed); more like a deafness brought on by a desperate anxiety to hear. I get it when a hotly debated answer is about to be read out in a pub quiz. I get it when a friend says, “You won’t believe who Sarah’s seeing now…”. I would have got it at the ...

Left-wing comedian Nick Helm coached Baroness Warsi for a Stand Up to Cancer special and they made a surprisingly delightful double act

Stand Up & Deliver, Channel 4 “Stand Up & Deliver was a hoot. Nick Helm and Baroness Sayeeda Warsi made a delightful double act, with the outsider comedian Helm realising that the contradictions within Warsi – working class, child of immigrants, northern, only non-white face in the Cabinet – made her a kindred spirit. I’d happily watch another few episodes of Helm and Warsi’s odd-couple adventures.” “The casting is magnificent: the Rev Richard Coles, the reality mainstay Curtis Pritchard, the former Corrie star Katie McGlynn, the Conservative peer Sayeeda Warsi and, best of all,...