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The week s best comedy on TV and radio
The week’s best new comedy on TV and radio.
Wednesday May 5
BLOODS: Samson Kayo and Jane Horrocks star as mismatched paramedic partners in this six-part comedy, commissioned following a successful 2018 pilot. Spiky South London boy Maleek is not impressed by new partner Wendy, a middle-aged divorcee who’s just moved to the capital.
Sky One, 10pm
JOHNNY VEGAS: CARRY ON GLAMPING: This new four-part series charts the comedian’s attempts to create the country s coolest glamping site. Together with his long-suffering assistant Bev, he buys an old Maltese bus online, just one of the old vehicles he wants for the site. Naturally nothing quite goes to plan. All episodes will be available on All 4 immediately after this one goes out.
The Sink is not the kind of podcast that will have you guffawing immediately – in fact, you may be confused by this parody of sleep-inducing meditation shows. But once you get acclimated to its surreal conceit – the process of dredging up “what’s stuck in your tubes” and remedying the “bad smell” in your brain – Natasha Hodgson’s comedy-horror show is full of brilliantly unsettling laughs.
Hannah J Davies, Guardian deputy TV editor
Nicole Byer of Why Won’t You Date Me? Photograph: Willy Sanjuan/Invision/AP
Nicole runs the gamut from incredibly filthy and raunchy to deeply heartfelt in the conversations she has with her guests about therapy, the daily struggles of maintaining a relationship, grief, the realities of existing in a body that society sees as Other (fat, Black, POC, trans, etc). There’s no dating lately because of Covid, but it seems like the podcast is even better because the tangents run all over. One thing is for certain: it’s always so damn