Izzard remixed her formidable back catalogue for what could become a farewell tour if she's selected as a prospective Labour MP

The well-travelled comic pulled off this huge arena show with frightening ease

The showcase mixing new comedians from refugee and migrant backgrounds with established stand-ups underlined how vital comedy is

The show packs so much in: politics, class, race, grief, colonialism, marriage and the ubiquity of Ottolenghi cookbooks

Tom Davis and Romesh Ranganathan have a chemistry that could never be concocted in a pub

The real star is the venue, a terrific addition to London's live circuit

Notaro knows how to wring every last laugh out of a joke

The former doctor turned comic and writer will make your eyes water in more ways than one

Jones is so skilled she can take upsetting scenarios she has faced and flip them into sublime routines, claiming the last laugh

The comic isn’t so much a damsel in distress as the one causing it

French’s show has the charm and charisma to turn the slightest of incidents into 24-carat gossipy gold

The comedian’s latest show is pithy, pacey and performed with casual aplomb

Birbiglia has a sublime lightness of touch, gliding seamlessly from anecdote to anecdote. Dive into this virtuoso performance and enjoy

It was only the eighth stand-up gig by the Father Ted co-creator and trans rights movement critic... and it showed

Norcott is very much the acceptable face of right-of-centre comedy

Even the simplest of life’s irritants make for hilarious listening from the finicky comic

The New York cabaret darling’s show knits together The Smiths and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein

For Londoners unable to make it to the biggest arts festival in the world, here’s our guide to our favourite shows travelling to the capital

The starman weaves in and out of the narrative like a spectral presence

This year Petts has reinvented herself as a tougher, more brutal comedian... supposedly