Comedy

2 Broke Girls

5 Episodes

US comedy about two girls from different ends of the social spectrum who join forces in an attempt to set up their own business

20 Things to Do Before You're Thirty

8 Episodes

Comedy drama about four friends rapidly approaching 30 who realise that they haven't achieved any of the life goals that they always set out before getting there

8 Out of 10 Cats

6 Series, 48 Episodes

Jimmy Carr hosts the irreverent comedy panel show based on opinion polls. So what's better - kittens or Christmas? Let The Great British Public decide...

Absolutely

4 Series, 27 Episodes

Many years ago, before The Fast Show, Big Train or Little Britain, came this influential Scottish sketch show. A splendid blend of comedy craft and surreal lunacy.

The Adam and Joe Show

4 Series, 22 Episodes

Hilarious and irreverent comedy from award-winning duo Adam Buxton and Joe Cornish. Featuring inspired toy animations and hard-hitting reports on the youth of today from Adam's dad.

Adam and Joe's Fourmative Years

1 Episode

In 1997, Channel 4 called on cult couch-potatoes Adam and Joe to look back over its first 15 years of groundbreaking television. And take the p*ss out of it...

The Angelos Neil Epithemiou Show

1 Episode

Slapstick, jokes, high-energy dancing, catchy singing and sophisticated magic from a modern-day clown living in an oversized world of pure fun

Ape

1 Episode

A comedy show featuring a goofy mix of sketches and hidden-camera stunts where Liam Hourican 'apes' a random bunch of famous faces and everyday people in his own particular style

Armstrong & Miller

1 Episode

Original and eccentric comedy sketches from Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller

Balls of Steel

3 Series, 19 Episodes

Mark Dolan dares a team of fearless comedians and performers to gird up their loins for the ultimate test. He and his studio audience want to know just one thing - who has the biggest Balls of Steel?

Banzai

3 Series, 25 Episodes

Cult Japanese-style no holds barred betting show, often involving celebrities - always involving hilarity. Place your bets on a series of bizarre, and generally politically incorrect, wagers.

Beehive

5 Episodes

Shiny brand new all-girl sketch show. Alice Lowe, Sarah Kendall, Barunka O'Shaughnessy and Clare Thomson present their nutsy world of oddball characters and peculiar takes on celebrity.

The Big Bang Theory

5 Episodes

Arch-nerds Leonard and Sheldon may know more than their fair share about subatomic particles, but when it comes to people in general, and women in particular, they're absolutely clueless...

Black Books

3 Series, 18 Episodes

Bafta-winning sitcom about the antics of foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black, his long-haired and long-suffering assistant, Manny, and his best (in fact only) friend, Fran

Blue Heaven

6 Episodes

Frank Skinner writes and stars in this sitcom about an aspiring singer who dreams of breaking free from the Birmingham bar scene and hitting the big time

Bo' Selecta!

4 Series, 24 Episodes

Meet Transylvania's most avid fan, the celebrities he stalks and those he impersonates using nothing but insulting rubber masks and a maniacal vigour. It's Avid Merrion. Thank you please.

Bob and Margaret

13 Episodes

Animated comedy following husband and wife 40-somethings Bob and Margaret, as they struggle with everyday life and the occasional mid life crisis

The Book Group

2 Series, 12 Episodes

Clare, a neurotic American, moves to Glasgow and starts a book group to meet new, interesting people. But Kenny, Dirka, Rab, Fist and Janice turn out to be rather more interesting than she bargained for...

Boyz Unlimited

6 Episodes

This six-part comedy series charts conman Nigel Gacey's attempt to manufacture a brand new boy band from scratch

Brass Eye

2 Series, 7 Episodes

Anarchic spoof news comedy, fronted by Chris Morris. A top investigative reporter turns his 'moral-o-meter' on modern Britain - and comes up with some extremely disturbing results...

Bremner, Bird and Fortune

6 Episodes

Rory Bremner joins the two Johns - Bird and Fortune - to crank up the satirical joke machine and pour scorn on The Establishment. Razor sharp political satire that bites the hands that bleed...

Bremner, Bird and Fortune: The Daily Wind-Up

3 Episodes

Rory and his team give their own comic take on the run-up to the election as it builds to its climax, including up-to-the-minute monologues, interviews and pranks.

The Bronx Bunny Show

10 Episodes

The Bronx Bunny Show is a spoof semi-educational show for adults hosted by two wise-cracking, foul-mouthed puppets - the streetwise Bronx Bunny and his volatile sidekick Teddy T

Campus

6 Episodes

Campus first appeared as part of 4's Comedy Showcase season, and now makes its full series premiere. It's set in the hotbed of academic mediocrity that is Kirke University, with the mercurial yet stubby Vice Chancellor Jonty de Wolfe at the helm.

Captain Butler

6 Episodes

Craig Charles, stars in this unique sitcom as Captain Butler, the reluctant and cowardly captain of a crew of mutinous and bloodthirsty sea-faring pirates

Cardinal Burns

4 Episodes

Comedy sketch show written and performed by Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri-Burns

Channel 4's Comedy Gala

4 Episodes

Channel 4 assembles more than 20 of the nation's best known and most loved comedians for a spectacular Comedy Gala in aid of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity

Chelmsford 123

2 Series, 13 Episodes

A comedic take on the undignified power struggles that took place between a Roman general and a British tribal leader in the ancient city of Chelmsford

The Cleveland Show

4 Episodes

Cleveland Brown, from Family Guy, waves goodbye to Peter Griffin and heads back to Virginia with his teenage son to rekindle his romance with high school sweetheart Donna in this animated comedy series

Comedy Lab

28 Episodes

Platform for new comedy talent that has helped launch the careers of top performers such as Ricky Gervais, Dom Joly and Jimmy Carr, as well as uncovering such gems as Modern Toss and Fonejacker

Comedy Live Presents

1 Episode

Comedy variety show from January 2008 featuring Russell Brand and friends

Comedy Showcase

8 Episodes

You saw them here first... Rising stars from the UK comedy scene showcase their talents in 30-minute specials, which can also act as pilot episodes for complete new series.

Comic Strip Presents...

24 Episodes

Outrageous and hilarious films from the Comic Strip team, who helped make Channel 4's early reputation as champions of alternative comedy

Crapston Villas

3 Series, 20 Episodes

This animated soap opens up the glamorous world of Crapston Villas. We see the hilarious antics of the inhabitants of this much sought-after residential property.

Da Ali G Show

6 Episodes

The Staines junglist provides his inimitable mix of global reportage and celebrity chat, ably assisted by Kazakhstan's finest journalist, Borat, and the glamorous Bruno (one name - like Madonna)

Desmond's

6 Series, 71 Episodes

Classic sitcom set in a Peckham barber shop, starring the late, great Norman Beaton. Desmond's was first shown on Channel 4 in 1989 and ran for six years.

Desperate Housewives

4 Episodes

Dark comedy drama exploring the complicated reality behind the apparent domestic bliss of a group of housewives in a fictitious American suburb

Distraction

2 Series, 16 Episodes

Jimmy Carr hosts the game show where brave contestants attempt to rise above such trivial distractions as cactus buzzers, nude middle-aged dancers and electrocution

Dogface

5 Episodes

From the makers of Peep Show comes this hilarious comedy that combines fast-paced sketches with stylish 'dog-based' animation. Starring Matt King, Kevin Bishop, Jo Neary and Steve Edge.

Don't Trust the B---- in Apartment 23

2 Episodes

US sitcom about the unlikely friendship between a sweet, innocent small-town girl, and a New York City party girl and con artist

Dressing for Breakfast

3 Series, 21 Episodes

Comedy about friends, family and relationships. Louise is single, bright and attractive and, although she likes her independence, would love to meet Mr Right. Or at least Mr Reasonably OK...

Drop the Dead Donkey

6 Series, 65 Episodes

Classic satirical sitcom set in the studios of Globelink News TV. An unpopular and unprincipled Chief Executive struggles to control a doggedly dysfunctional news team. With precious little success...

The Estate Agents

6 Episodes

This hit comedy series is set in a south London estate agents where three hapless workers inhabit a deliciously skewed parallel universe packed with twisted characters and disastrous scenarios

Eurotrash

6 Episodes

Boasting spectacular sets, cheeky yarns, gargantuan boobies, oddball antics, and of course - naked people in places you wouldn't expect to see naked people

Facejacker

2 Series, 11 Episodes

The man of mystery returns. But he's put down his phone and now he's up close and personal!

Father Ted

4 Series, 25 Episodes

One small island off the west coast of Ireland. Three priests. One housekeeper. A bunch of nuns - and the most consistently awful weather on the planet. Welcome to the world of Father Ted!

Felix & Murdo

1 Episode

In this sitcom set in Edwardian London, Ben Miller and Alexander Armstrong play a pair of 'modern' men who indulge in a drink and drugs spree while simultaneously competing in the 1908 Olympics... with no training whatsoever

Fonejacker

3 Series, 16 Episodes

Turning miscommunication into an art-form, the Fonejacker is a man on a mission. He's addicted to making prank telephone calls to spread comical confusion throughout the nation...

Frankie Boyle's Tramadol Nights

6 Episodes

This first solo series from the razor-sharp Glaswegian comic blends acerbic stand-up with hilarious sketches crafted in the darkest recesses of the human psyche...