Andy Hamilton's Hat of Doom (23/05/10, WYP)

Like Arthur Smith back in February, my experience of Andy Hamilton on TV has been on shows like Have I Got News For You and QI, and of course I know his writing on Outnumbered, but when he asked the audience at the West Yorkshire Playhouse how they knew him, the overwhelming middle-aged audience were most familiar with his Radio 4 shows. Yet again, it seemed we were the only ones of a handful at a theatre-bound event who were under 30 - what exactly do young people do for entertainment?!

Andy Hamilton proved to be a hilarious night out, consisting of stand up of a semi-improv sort, with the second half of the show given over to audience questions, much as Arthur Smith had done. Watched series 1 of Outnumbered since seeing Hamilton, I noticed some of his jokes were recycled in/from the TV series, though that did nothing to dampen my appreciation of a man who, by his own admission, resembles 'Pavarotti if he was squashed by a tree'. The topical humour he shows on HIGNFY was mixed with more regular stand up fair, with some audience participation thrown in too. A wonderful evening.