Comedy, "Inverness"

The master of kids' comedy presents a show packed with proper laughs, without the rude bits. For ages 6+.

Songs, sketches, falsetto and violence, laced with a sci-fi theme from the ever popular Sock Puppets.

Comedy's favourite grumpy old man leads you on a magical mystery jaunt.

Moran plays up to the stereotype of the bumbling, drunken Irishman, but his comedy is much more intelligent than mere cliché-mongering: on stage he is uniquely charismatic, a foul-mouthed mixture of lovable and misanthropic, and always very, very funny.

Happyness have been rounding up the brightest young comics from local schools and youth groups and tonight you can see the youngsters show the oldies just exactly how it's done.

Fred MacAulay takes charge (we're not sure how easy that'll be) of a football, no doubt featuring some of the talent from the fest.

The popular morning radio show host who has now graduated to the heady heights of 'Mock the Week' and the like shares his witticisms about life and living in Scotland today.

All sort of outdoor larks.

A showcase of the best and brightest Gaelic comedy to come out of Happyness. We're sure it'll be an-greannmhar ('very funny', according to our online translator …)

More humour from a whole host of brave comedians who've journeyed to the Highlands for the inaugural Inverness Comedy Festival.

A motley crew of funny types trek to Inverness to bring some humour to the Highlands.

Imagine a bunch of pretty sweet stand-ups simply chomping at the bit to entertain you for an evening. Now stop imagining, cos this is real. Ace.

A four day festival of laughs taking place across multiple venues in the Highland Capital. New and local comics share the bill with internationally recognised acts – including Dylan Moran, Patrick Monahan and Alan Davies – and Gaelic comedy gets a look in with a dedicated show.

A selection of the brightest comedy types from the festival.

Comedy rap rascals from Cornwall.

A grumpy look at life from Ms Eclair, giving her usual wry take on life.

• 60 min

Comedy magician Pete Firman presents his second ever live show, full of teleportation exploits, devilishly sickening tricks and death defying feats. Pete's first national tour, Flim Flam sold out from Inverness to Dartmouth, he has performed to sell-out audiences at the Edinburgh Festival since his debut show Hokum in…

You'll know her face from talking about cake and cats on the telly, so here's another chance to see the Millican phenomenon in full flight live onstage.

So You Think You're Funny has launched the careers of comedic greats such as David O'Doherty, Peter Kay and Dylan Moran, so there's every chance you'll see a stadium-filler of the future as hopefuls compete for a place in the competition's heats.