New BBC comedy night, and the rest of the week's live highlights...

Sunday April 1

CARDIFF: Get delightfully weird with Tony Law as he brings his latest blast of charming surrealism,Absurdity for the Common People, to the Glee tonight

Tuesday April 3

LONDON: BBC Studios is running a new monthly night at the Backyard Comedy Club, featuring comedians it is working with – which naturally ensures a top-notch line-up. Joe Lycett heads tonight's bill with Jordan Brookes, Ken Cheng, Kerry Godliman, Jayde Adams and Olga Koch… and it's only a fiver!

BATH: The city's comedy festival continues all week. Tonight there's a mother-and-daughter double bill at Ring O Bells as Ashley Storrie presents a show about not growing up at 8pm, followed by mum Janey Godley sharing the best of her tales from 20 years on the circuit at 9.30pm.

Thursday April 5

LONDON: Canadian comic Bobby Mair's ranty, sometimes crude and often provocative show Loudly Insecure – based at least in part on this adoptee's attempts to track down his birth family – lands at the Soho Theatre for three nights.

LONDON: The Comedy Store has a strong line-up this weekend with sardonically superior Simon Evans, laid-back social commentator Jamali Maddix, cynical Jo Caulfield, over-thinker Josh Howie and satirical Ian Stone.

Friday April 6

EDINBURGH: Crude storytelling, but with charm, as Scott Agnew brings his Spunk on Our Lady's Face show to the Basement Theatre at the Rose Theatre.

Saturday April 7

LONDON:  It's the final of the Musical Comedy Award – now in its tenth year – with  Dave Bibby, Cassie Atkinson, Archie Henderson, Luke Courtier, Joe Jacobs, Matt Hutson, Stiff & Kitsch, Ava Rage, Friz Frizzle and Bennet Kavanagh competing for the honour, under the dominant gaze of Miss Frisky. The show also features a set from 2017 winner Will Hislop and best newcomer Charlotte Brooke.

LEICESTER: Making the ukulele acceptable again, Mr B The Gentlemen Rhymer introduces some good old-fashioned British manners into the hip-hop genre with his sparkling parodies in his solo show at the Y Theatre tonight. Top-hole!

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Published: 1 Apr 2018