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Coldplay will headline a charity evening of music and comedy at The O2 next month.

The multi-million selling band have teamed up with London-based charity Kids Company to organise the Under 1 Roof event at the arena on December 10. Also confirmed to appear are Tinie Tempah, Emeli Sandé, Rob Brydon and Steve Coogan as Alan Partridge.

They made their name as Jonathan Ross's house band and didn't realise they were funny until they found themselves on the comedy bill at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Following a successful run at this year's festival, musical comedy group 4 Poofs and a Piano are touring a new show, Back in Business, and will appear at Greenwich Theatre next month.

COMEDY
Rich Hall
Greenwich Comedy Festival
4/5

IN A NUTSHELL
The perfect antidote to a lame set by Stewart Francis turned out to be storming offerings from Rich Hall and David O'Doherty

The top brass of London's Olympic organisers were out and about in Canary Wharf today, although Lord Coe was nowhere to be seen.

Rather it was left to actors Hugh Bonneville and Karl Theobald to carry the, ahem, torch as they filmed scenes for the BBC comedy TwentyTwelve in One Canada Square.

Comedians don't come much bigger than George Wallace but when he takes the stage at The O2 arena tomorrow night he'll definitely be playing second fiddle.

That's not because the 58-year-old couldn't keep 20,000 people laughing for several hours, but because he'll be the support act to his best friend Jerry Seinfeld, who is making his first UK stand-up appearance in 12 years.

"The downside of being a comedian is that you always get people asking you to tell them jokes," says comedian Dan Clark.

"In public people do ask you to tell them a joke when you get introduced as a comedian. I suppose that's fair, because they quite often need proof."

He's been a Bonzo, a Rutle and the seventh Python but Neil Innes has doggedly refused to be pigeonholed.

The 66-year-old's eclectic career has embraced chart success, a Beatles spoof, working with Monty Python, and children's television - and he admitted it all happened by accident. He will be at the British Music Experience at The O2 tomorrow evening.

More than 40 years after his suicide Tony Hancock is still revered as one of the greats of British comedy.

His impeccable comic timing and hangdog look propelled him to the top of his profession in the 1950s, thanks to his Hancock's Half Hour show. A new book, The Lost Hancock Episodes, revisits some of the classic radio and TV shows wiped by the BBC in the 1960s.

Unleashing your alter ego is not just the stuff of comic books. Many of us have interests that are in complete juxtaposition to our working lives.

Businesswoman-cum-comedienne Julia Streets lives a double life, but manages to combine running her own company with performing as a part time comedienne.

COMEDY
Peter Kay at The O2
3/5

IN A NUTSHELL
Bolton's comedy king still has the common touch, but his touring show struggles to fill the arena's spaces with enough oomph.

Funny man Michael McIntyre's meteoric rise to fame was thanks to a visit to Canary Wharf.

In an exclusive interview he told The Wharf that it was a gig at East Wintergarden three years ago that changed his life forever.

Ivory tinkling Aussie comic sensation Tim Minchin is bringing his latest show to the O2 Arena at the end of the year.

Promising heaps of new material as well as reworkings of familiar songs, he will be joined by Jules Buckley and the Heritage Orchestra.

Prepare to have your funnybone tickled when one of Britain's top comedians arrives at The O2.

Peter Kay brings his "Tour That Doesn't Tour Tour" to the arena on November 5, 6 and 7 next year, his first appearances at the venue and his first national tour for seven years.

Bill Hicks once invited every person in marketing in a room to kill themselves. So is he really the man to help you spice up your business presentation?

That's the opinion of leadership guru Roger Edward Jones, author of What Can Chief Executives Learn From Stand-up Comedians?

The funniest talking computer British comedy has seen is now finally, officially off-screen.

Comedian Norman Lovett has pulled the plug on Holly, the dead-pan virtual companion from classic sitcom Red Dwarf. But where does a man boldly go once he's already navigated the vastness of space?

Madonna will be celebrating American Independence Day at The O2 this year.

The material girl will bring her Sticky & Sweet tour at the arena on July 4. The date is part of an extension of last year's world tour which saw Madge perform in front of over two million fans and she admitted she was excited about doing more shows.

THE TINY floral lady staggered out of prehistoric London and plonked herself down next to a rudimentary flint axe.

"Urgh. It's all hot and smelly over there", she moaned, gesturing at the crowd of people slotted together shoulder to shoulder like tittering Tetris blocks.