Comedy Lab

Series & Episodes

  • Golden Years Golden Years

    First broadcast: Friday 18 November 2011, 12.45AM on 4Music

    Ricky Gervais plays a crisis-ridden middle-aged man who strives to make it big in show business.

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  • Daydream Believers Comedy Lab

    First broadcast: Wednesday 16 November 2011, 12.35AM on 4Music

    A Sci-Fi comedy mixed with a dose of satire and gross-out humour. Ray played by David Mitchell, is the creative one making all the money, while Colin played by Robert Webb, the hapless one, fights capitalist power in Ray's borrowed BMW.

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  • Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits Olivia Lee

    First broadcast: Tuesday 15 November 2011, 12AM on 4Music

    Olivia Lee is a sexy solo girl about town looking for love, labels and men. She's taking her special brand of madness out onto the streets in an all-new hidden camera show.

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  • Kabadasses Comedy Lab: Kabadasses

    First broadcast: Sunday 13 November 2011, 11.05PM on E4

    Bobby is a loveable dreamer with high hopes and no prospects. When his domineering girlfriend, Shobna, throws him out, Bobby finds himself back at his Dad's with his tail between his legs.

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  • The Warm Up Guy Tom Davis

    First broadcast: Sunday 06 November 2011, 11PM on E4

    Tom Davis stars as Ian Bodkin, a struggling studio warm-up comedian and deluded wally who thinks he's a superstar in the making.

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  • Mr & Mrs Hotty Hott Hot Show Comedy Lab

    First broadcast: Sunday 30 October 2011, 11PM on E4

    The award-winning comedy sketch group Pappy's (Matthew Crosby, Tom Parry and Ben Clark) present Mr & Mrs Hotty Hott Hot Show

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  • Rick and Peter Comedy Lab: Rick and Peter

    First broadcast: Friday 16 September 2011, 11PM on E4

    Rick and Peter make an odd couple - thrown together after Rick makes a regrettable gag on T4, and is put on a crash course in how to be more politically correct.

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  • Totally Tom Comedy Lab: Totally Tom

    First broadcast: Friday 09 September 2011, 11PM on E4

    This half-hour scripted comedy sketch show is written and performed by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton.

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  • Anna & Katy Anna & Katy

    First broadcast: Friday 02 September 2011, 12AM on E4

    Acclaimed double act Anna Crilly (British Comedy Award Nominee) and Katy Wix (Writer's Guild Award Nominee) bring their unique brand of character comedy to a one-off sketch show.

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  • Hung Out Hung Out

    First broadcast: Saturday 24 April 2010, 12.10AM on Channel 4

    Comedy about a real group of friends in their twenties written by a real group of friends.

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  • MovieMash MovieMash

    First broadcast: Friday 23 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4

    A spoof movie magazine programme that twists interviews of film stars and re-edits film to comic effect, mixed with comedy sketches.

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  • Filth Filth

    First broadcast: Thursday 22 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4

    Two misfits struggle to survive in the lurid world of Filth, a weekly lads' mag.

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  • Penelope Princess of Pets Kyle, Thomas Stone and Penelope Princess of Pets with Ruby

    First broadcast: Wednesday 21 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4

    Penelope (Kristen Schaal from Flight of the Conchords) can talk to animals. Her gift has taken her, along with her orphan friend Kyle (Kurt Braunohler) and bird Ruby, all the way to England, where they have just 3,762 hours to save the world from the evil MP Thomas Stone (Julian Barratt).

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  • Secret Census Comedy Lab

    First broadcast: Wednesday 21 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4

    Jack Whitehall (TNT Show) asks 'how honest is Britain?' Jack conducts an exclusive, secretly filmed poll centred on this topic and creates a number of outrageous stunts on unsuspecting members of the public.

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  • iCandy iCandy's Stringfellow

    First broadcast: Monday 19 April 2010, 11.05PM on Channel 4

    iCandy is written by and stars Irish actor Liam Hourican as a variety of characters, including a mountaineer who has a taste for human flesh, a driving instructor with anger management issues and a life coach with a murky past.

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  • Happy Finish Happy Finish

    First broadcast: Monday 19 April 2010, 12AM on Channel 4

    A brand new sketch show that showcases a generation of new comedic talent both on- and off-screen, featuring Nadia Kamil, Daniel Kaluuya, Nico Tatarowicz, Sara Pascoe and Mike Wozniak.

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  • Kids School of Comedy School of Comedy

    First broadcast: Thursday 21 August 2008, 12AM on Channel 4

    Features a range of characters including a filthy, profane receptionist, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, and a sexually repressed couple from the 1930s.

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  • Transmission Impossible Transmission Impossible

    First broadcast: Wednesday 10 May 2006, 12AM on Channel 4

    Spoof clip show featuring selections of programmes which, given an ill wind of broadcasting desperation, might actually exist in a parallel world.

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  • Best of British Best of British

    First broadcast: Thursday 28 November 2002, 12AM on Channel 4

    Take five unlikely sporting personalities, a selection of bizarre sporting activities and 'Doggy' the rabid mascot and you have Best of British - a Superstars for the insane.

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  • House of Rock Awards House of Rock Awards

    First broadcast: Tuesday 17 October 2000, 12AM on Channel 4

    Loveable dead rock stars return to host their very own music awards ceremony. Back from the dead, Freddie Mercury. Kurt Cobain, Biggie Smalls, Marc Bolan and John Denver present the evening's festivities, which features special guests Madonna, Robbie Williams and Travis.

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  • Lenny Beige - Showbiz Legend

    First broadcast: Wednesday 20 January 1999, 12AM on Channel 4

    Steve Furst stars as Lenny Beige, the bejewelled, 60s throwback and all-round entertainer who leads his audience through a celebration of spangly showbiz high camp.

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  • Alan Tyler's Big Night In

    First broadcast: Wednesday 09 December 1998, 12AM on Channel 4

    Scot FM breakfast DJ Alan Tyler transmits his show from a viewer's home. From 1998.

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  • Tommy Tiernan Is Alive! Tommy Tiernan

    First broadcast: Wednesday 02 December 1998, 12AM on Channel 4

    Perrier Award Winning comedian and actor Tommy Tiernan live on-stage in his home town of Galway.

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  • 12:21 Demitri Martin

    A minute in the life of US comedian and Perrier Award Winner 2003 Demetri Martin.

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  • Ain't It Funny Being Coloured Aint it funny being coloured

    A multi-cultural sketch show that looks at race, prejudice, stereotypes, and how everything isn't quite as it seems on the surface.

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  • Anderson Anderson

    The Anderson family is middle-class, suburban and dysfunctional. Mr Anderson is obsessed with being a good parent; his luscious wife, Roxanne, 42, is experiencing her sexual awakening, and their teenage son Duncan is a budding David Lynch.

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  • Bad Crowd Bad Crowd

    Like any comedy prison, HMP Brickway's population is a mixed bag! Aiden McCabe is struggling to adjust to prison life and his newly-discovered sexual orientation.

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  • Headwreckers headwreckers

    Five comics from Dublin - David McSavage, James Goldsbury, John Colleary, Eleanor Tiernan and Declan Rooney - write and perform their show set in their writing room.

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  • Heart And Sole Heart and Sole

    Lynn Ferguson tells the simple and heart-warming story of a Scottish primary school teacher who falls in love with a bottom-dwelling coastal fish called David.

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  • Karl Pilkington, Satisfied Fool KARL PILKINGTON

    Karl Pilkington is best known for the world-record-breaking podcasts that he does with friends Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant - where he is frequently told that he is an idiot.

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  • Meet The Magoons Magoons

    Glaswegian foursome Nitin, Sanj, Hardeep and Paul are given a simple task - to pick up Nitin's dad's best friend's daughter from Glasgow Central station. Easy to get right? Wrong.

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  • Mr & Mrs Fandango Mr and Mrs Fandango

    A character sketch show featuring comic duo Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Tom Meeten. In their world, Dodi and Di host their own daytime TV show while Coleen and Wayne are comic book heroes.

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  • Pappy's Fun Club Pappy's Fun Club

    Part sketch show, part sitcom set in a 'fun club' run by a mysterious and never-seen-before benefactor Pappy.

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  • Renegades of Magina Mangina

    Alice Lowe and comedy partner Jennie Cox play two young girls living in a dilapidated seaside town, trying to make their empty lives more interesting by creating an elaborate fantasy world of their own.

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  • Rolf's Animal Hairdressers Rolfs Animal Hairdressers

    Aussie salon owner Rolf runs his hairdressing salon assisted by the surly teeth-kissing Emma and the highly camp Styling Moose. Featuring the voice of John Thomson (Fast Show, Cold Feet) as Rolf.

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  • Roy Dance Is Dead Roy Dance is Dead

    Comedy trio Electric Eel - Dan Clark, Adam Goodwin and Cliff Kelly - play three unsavoury, down-market estate agents.

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  • Slaterwood Slaterwood

    The Hollywood hills are alive with the sound of Bolton in this hilariously warped vision of comic talent Peter Slater as he unleashes a world of crazy cops, heroes and villains.

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  • The Chancers The Chancers

    Two 'chancers' Chris and Milo set themselves the task of making a TV programme. Unfortunately, they don't have any ideas. Furthermore they are complete unknowns, with no connections and no relevant experience.

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  • The Earl The Earl

    Lord Newmarket is an Earl and founder of Scabbard Productions, a production company specialising in documentaries on the royal family. Lord Newmarket goes to Hollywood to pitch his ludicrous film ideas to the studio bosses that count.

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  • The Entertainer The Entertainer

    A documentary that tells the story of would-be comic Trevor Evans (played by Sean Mechen) who is in desperate search of stardom.

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  • The Pooters COMEDY LAB

    Delving into the abstract world of The Pooters book club. The Pooters discuss 1970s biker fiction with special guest Sir Patrick Moore.

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  • The Services The Services

    Peter Kay plays the entire cast of characters caught on camera during a life in the day of a motorway services station near Bolton.

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  • Turn the World Down Turn the World Down

    A cast of schemers live in two neighbouring flats on the shabby but well-loved Crossfields estate where a young boy blackmails his mum's friend's new boyfriend, who happens to be his teacher.

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  • Turning Tricks / Danny Does Tricks

    A double bill of comedy from Paul Zenon in Turning Tricks and Danny Buckler in Danny Does Tricks as the pair conjure up their unique brand of magic.

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  • Whatever Whatever

    Comedy Lab's unique experiment sees a group of urban teenagers coming up with ideas for what they want to see on the box - and the results are as outrageous as they are funny.

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