The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.
Sunday March 14
THE RANGANATHAN: Richard Madeley and Maisie Adam are the guests in this last episode of the series
BBC Two, 9pm
BEEP: A one-off spring from a Scottish comedy writers initiative revolves around a dysfunctional family as they visit Tommy, who is in a coma in a Glashow hospital after being hit by a car. Stars include Siobhan Redmond and it has been written by Bryce Hart.
BBC Two, 9.45pm
STEPHEN MERCHANT: HELLO LADIES: The Office co-creator s 2011 stand-up show about dating gets an airing as part of the BBC s Festival Of Funny.
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NINA AND MONKEY S BEDTIME: The comedy impressionist released this intimate ten-part series with her most enduring puppet on YouTube last month, saying she made it spontaneously to combat the grey.
Sunday March 14
ANGEL COMEDY: The much-loved London club is staging the second of its Big Gigs tonight, featuring Nish Kumar, fresh from the Mash Show s axing, alongside Ed Gamble, Lou Sanders, Nina Conti, Barry Ferns and Colin Hoult s gregarious alter-ego Anna Mann. Tickets are available from Dice.fm
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Tweets of the week
Tweets of the week
Onesie (noun): a selfie taken by the queen. GlennyRodge (@GlennyRodge) March 8, 2021
Passive aggression gnaws at your insides and makes your life a misery. But that s only my opinion. Feel free to ignore it. Jon Canter (@joncanter3) March 12, 2021
Who called it the Russian Revolution and not ‘Shooting Tsars’ Craig Deeley ️ (@craiguito) March 12, 2021
Books should have a blooper page in the back that shows some of the typos the editors fixed Cameron Bradford (@camerobradford) March 12, 2021
Despite my best efforts I m still a terrible ventriloquist, and I say that through gritted teeth.
The BBC won’t be making any more episode of The Mash Report.
News that the Nish Kumar-fronted show has been dropped has been greeted with glee by right-wing newspapers who considered it a hotbed of liberal, anti-Brexit bias.
New director-general Tim Davie, a former local Conservative party chairman, has pledged to make impartiality across the Corporation one of his biggest priorities.
However, Davie later branded claims that he was targetting comedy shows as ‘nonsense’, saying: ‘Comedy has always been poking at authority. If a particular government is in charge you probably do get a bit more edge against those in power, that’s how it works. And, by the way, I want good satire on the BBC. I like being adventurous.’