The Secret Policeman's Ball has returned to a London stage after 17 years. John Cleese, who produced the early Amnesty International awareness- and fund-raisers, wasn't there - he was here in Australia doing the dead parrot sketch with John Laws (but that's another story) - but Eddie Izzard, the Gorillaz, Chevy Chase, Ian McKellen, Graham Norton, Tamsin Greig, Jo Brand, Jennifer Saunders, Richard E Grant, Al Murray and Meera Syal were. More here.