A tight 5: March 5

COMEDY CENTRAL is to screen two stand-up specials from Montreal's Just For Laughs festival. The first, on March 22, will feature Russell Howard, Eddie Izzard, Katherine Ryan, Paul Foot, Chris Ramsey, Michael Che, Eric Lampaert and Bo Burnham.

STEVE PEMBERTON and Reece Shearsmith will be signing copies of the Inside No 9 DVD at HMV in Oxford Street, London,from 5.30pm on Marxh 20, three days after it is released.

MIKE REED, who is studying comedy writing and performance at Southampton Solent University, has become the latest aspiring comic to make it to the semi-finals of the Chortle Student Comedy Award with ALCATEL ONETOUCH and Universal Pictures (UK). Here is some of the set that won him the South Wales heat last night:
STAND-UP Hannah Gadsby is to present a three-part series about Australian art for the ABC1 channel down under. Hannah Gadsby's Oz described as ' mission to debunk the myths of the Australian identity as defined by our art' – starts next Tuesday. She has previously presented shows about the Virgin Mary and nudes in art at the Edinburgh Fringe.

JESSICA KNAPPETT, star of the Inbetweeners movie and creator of Drifters is to appear in David Schwimmer's new sitcom Irreversible. She has been cast as the former Friends star's partner in the show, which is being piloted for America's ABC network.

Published: 5 Mar 2014