Five years after their last live tour you've got to admire the Fast Show troupe for putting together a star-studded fairly new one-off gig to plug their new compilation DVD. Caroline Aherne was absent, "tragically in Manchester" as Charlie Higson deadpanned, but everyone else was present, correct and often sidesplittingly funny.

It was apt that the evening included a cameo from Timelord David Tennant. This frequently felt like comedy from a different era, those pre-Gervais days when cartoon laughs were everything. Apart from the pathos in Paul Whitehouse's ageing drunk Rowley Birkin and the Vesuvius of repressed desire in the closing Ted and Ralph duet, the emphasis was on knockabout silliness.

And, naturally, catchphrases, which paved the way for Little Britain and Catherine Tate. The latter's debt to this team was underlined by her verbal signatures briefly being cheekily employed onstage.

Whitehouse and Mark Williams scored the biggest laughs by teasing Tennant, bellowing "Suit you" at him. Simon Day's cockney eco-warrior Dave "'Av That" Angel and Higson's coughing ruralist Bob Fleming fared well, too.

Further special guests shunted proceedings into special event territory. Paul Weller and Queen's Roger Taylor played good sports in John Thomson's jazz club vignette, while Richard E Grant reduced Arabella Weir's militant feminist to a ditzy puddle of lust.

A few quickfire sketches, cliché-spouting Ron Manager particularly, fizzed then fizzled out, but borrowing the word of one of Whitehouse's creations who had the night off, lots of this resurrection shuffle was brilliant.