Bobby Carroll

Malignant moles, incel babies and disassociation... Bella Hull is about to spread eagle her neuroses out bare for maximum laughs and... [scribble] Hold up! [scribble scribble] Stop the press! Reviewers! Sometimes you get sat at the front. It happens. Here's a tip. Pop the notebook away and enjoy the show. Not just in this instance but always... wherever you are sat... If you are writing for The List, what's your word count? 300 words. 350 max?

Marty Gleeson's Dogeared is a collage of intelligent quirk. A child's sleepover turns into an Irish language The Conjuring. A news report at Christmas shifts from cute to inappropriate to claustrophobic. A horse painting reveals the need to trust the artist even when the work is daft and hubristic. Everyone trapped like we are in a real time Buñuel flick. Outsider artistic vision pulses through the hour. As much performance Dadaism as a 10k showcase debut to court the Avalon / OTK set.

In these days of personal branding and hardline USP, there is something pleasingly anonymous about Eric Rushton. He's just a bloke turning his life into jokes; often the target of his punchlines is himself. It's all alluringly trad, dad. Dressed like he's having a pint after a Wednesday evening five-a-side and with all the showman pizzaz of your cousin making small talk at wedding table seven, Rushton cuts an unassuming shape. And that's the con.