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.
The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.
Sunday February 28
DYLAN MORAN: OFF THE HOOK The broadcast premiere of the languid comic’s 2015 stand-up show about politics, loneliness and middle age. Review of the live show.
BBC Two, 9.45pm
BBC Two, 9pm
ANNA MORRIS: KID-LIFE CRISIS: In the latest of Radio 4’s half-hour stand-up specials, the comic talks about being single, childless and living back with her parents at the age of 40.
Radio 4, 7.15pm
Monday March 1
EDDIE IZZARD: FORCE MAJEURE: Another broadcast premiere, this time of Izzard’s wide-ranging 2013 show spanning ancient civilisations to mythical creatures in a quest for what is universal in humour. Review of the live show.
The week s best comedy on demand
The week s best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the search box with online as the region.
Now
THE MISADVENTURES OF HEDI AND COKEMAN: Netflix has had quite some success with French programmes Call My Agent and Lupin. but this ribald drug-fuelled romp, just landed on the platform, is an altogether different beast. Here s a trailer:
MEET THE STREET: John Rutledge, aka Eggsy, from comedy hip-hop group Goldie Lookin Chain, launches a new podcast in the guise of retiree David Plympton, who is in conversation with various members of his neighbourhood. Comics playing the role of guests include Richard Sandling, Mike Bubbins, Eleri Morgan, Mark Davison, Dan Mitchell and Alex Lowe. Rutledge says: Lockdown has been duller than a loaf of Tesco value bread so I decided to make something to escape the drudgery of the current situation. Forget idle banter over the garden fence - David Plympton s Meet the Street introduces you to the record-brea
The week s best comedy on demand
The week s best comedy on demand. For more streaming gigs use the search box with online as the region.
Today
SIMON MUNNERY: THE MANCHESTER EXPERIMENT: Before Christmas, the comedian put a VHS labelled only The Manchester Experiment, 17th May 2001, into the post with a note reading: I tried this twice, it worked once . He sent it to Go Faster Stripe, the DVD label that has put out many of his shows - and with will tonight stage a one-off screening, introduced by the innovative Munnery himself. Go Faster Stripe s Chris Evans said: I don t really want to tell you any more about it so that you can experience the thing the same way I did. Tickets are available now from Go Faster Stripe, priced £5.
Comic who planned suicide now hosts a marathon gig to toast life
A comedian who was moments from taking his own life seven years ago is hosting a marathon live-streamed gig in celebration of positivity.
At 1.33pm on February 15, 2014, Chazz Redhead was determined to jump in front of a train at Tooting Bec station in South London, but a chance diversion saved his life.
‘A woman with arms full of Selfridge’s bags tripped over on the platform and in the commotion I got distracted for a few seconds,’ he recalled.
‘By the time I’d refocused, the train doors were opening, and I didn’t know what to do so I just got on. I was actually really grumpy with myself and the other passengers were giving me funny looks.’