Pam Ann
On tour
They may not be everybody's favourite airline, but at least British Airways have a sense of humour. After Australian comic actress Caroline Reid created a grumpy BA flight attendant called Mona, BA signed her up to star in her very own viral advert. Since Reid has also created a snooty French air stewardess called Chantelle and a bossy German stewardess called Helga, what's the betting Air France and Lufthansa will follow suit? Reid's magnum opus is Pam Ann, the most foul-mouthed, filthy-tempered flight attendant ever to sell duty free. For the next two months she's touring her new show, Terror At 41,000 feet. The Glasgow Herald says she's captured the zeitgeist, but her camp appeal is actually entirely nostalgic. Far from summing up the spirit of our age, she harks back to a bygone era when flying was still chic and little girls dreamed of being air hostesses. Now those halcyon days are over, her next viral really ought to be for Eurostar.
· Swan Theatre, High Wycombe, Sat 5; Wyvern Theatre, Swindon, Tues 8
Ivan Brackenbury
On tour
"Hello, I'm Ivan Brackenbury and I'm absolutely bonkers!" Brackenbury is the world's worst hospital radio DJ, but you can normally only hear him if you're an inpatient in Chesterfield or North Derbyshire. However, now that he's touring in his own hospital radio roadshow, completely healthy people can marvel at his incompetent and insensitive broadcasts, playing The First Cut Is The Deepest for self-harmers, Papa's Got A Brand New Bag for colostomy users, A Good Heart Is Hard To Find for transplants patients and Don't You Forget About Me for Alzheimer's sufferers. His Disease Hour is the apotheosis of bad taste, but, despite the sick jokes, his inept character is wonderfully well observed. It's no surprise that his creator, Tom Binns, is a real-life radio DJ, with stints on Birmingham's BRMB and London's XFM.
· The State Bar, Glasgow, Sat 5; Roper Hall, Preston, Sun 6; Bar XS, Manchester, Tue 8; The Brickyard, Carlisle, Wed 9
Mitch Hedberg
CD/DVD
"As a headliner, I gotta do 45 minutes of comedy - that's a long time," said Mitch Hedberg. "That's a sitcom and a half, for chrissakes. I've never seen a sitcom and said, 'I want to see that character for 15 more minutes.'" Hedberg was right about most headliners - 45 minutes is usually plenty - but this laid back, American stand-up was one of the few comics you'd happily watch for another 45. Sadly he died three years ago, aged just 37, so this new CD/DVD is about as close as you're going to get. The CD was recorded in 2003, but it's released in the UK for the first time this Monday, along with nearly two hours of DVD footage. With his surreal one-liners and diffident delivery, he invited comparisons with Steven Wright, but his offbeat humour was utterly his own - and he knew it. "If I made potato chips and put them in a can, people would say I was ripping off Pringles," he said. "But what if I put them in a bag?"
· Mitch Hedberg - Mitch All Together, Comedy Central Records, £11.99
