Lee Mack at Birmingham Symphony Hall

"This is the wierdest Q&A ever," joked Lee Mack as he fielded the latest in a series of increasingly bizarre questions from the people of Birmingham to finish his laughter-packed set at the city's Symphony Hall.

Good-natured banter with his adoring audience was a key element of the BAFTA-award winning comic's tour show, Going Out.

Laugh a minute, Mack jumps from one topic to another, one minute doing a big prize quiz with the audience in which he asked a woman to name an island associated with the singer Barry White (the answer, naturally, wasn't the obvious Isle of Wight but the lesser known Barry Island in Wales), then recounting how he had noticed himself increasingly arguing 'in song' with his other half so his children didn't realise they were fighting.

Mack is best known for his hit BBC One sitcom Not Going Out and his turns as team captain on Would I Lie To You, but on this form will soon be one of the biggest names on the stand-up circuit too.

He returns for the fourth of four nights at the Symphony Hall tonight.

By Helen Cartwright.