The beginning of the end for Inside No 9

The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…:

Sunday May 5

COMEDY CLUB AT MACHYNLLETH: A 15-minute dispatch from the Welsh comedy festival airs at 10pm every night until Friday on Radio 4 Extra, hosted by Esyllt Sear.

THE ROAST OF TOM BRADY: Airing on Netflix live at 1am (ie the early horse of tomorrow), Kevin Hart hosts this roast of the quarterback – and supermodel Gisele Bündchen's ex-husband – from the Netflix Is A Joke Festival.

Monday May 6

RHOD GILBERT'S GROWING PAINS: Rosie Jones, Eshaan Akbar and Jordan Gray share humiliating stories from their youth. Comedy Central, 9pm

Wednesday May 8

Man asking for change on a tube carriage

INSIDE NO 9: BOO TO A GOOSE: The ninth and, sadly, final season of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith’s anthology show kicks off with an episode set on an underground train stuck in a tunnel, where tempers start to fray. Siobhan Finneran, Mark Bonnard Susan Wokoma, Joel Fry, Philippa Dunne, Charlie Cooper and Matthew Kelly all guest star. And if you’re in mourning for the end of the TV show, a stage version opens in January. BBC Two, 10pm

PAINTING BIRDS WITH JIM AND NANCY MOIR: The Vic Reeves comedian and his wife return for a second series, in search of the Peregrine Falcon and painting with Justin Hawkins from The Darkness and photographer Mary McCartney. Sky Arts, 9pm

HOLD THE FRONT PAGE: Josh Widdicombe and Nish Kumar head to Benidorm to work on the Euro Weekly News. Sky Max, 9pm

Thursday May 9

BANGERS AND CASH:A 1977 TR7 owned by Mackenzie Crook - and which featured in his TV hit Detectorists - goes up for auction in tonight’s episode. Read more here. Yesterday, 8pm

Friday May 10

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Mel Giedroyc is host, with guest panellists comedian Daliso Chaponda and journalist Helen Lewis joining team captains Paul Merton and Ian Hislop BBC One, 9pm

THE YOUNG OFFENDERS: A fourth series for the raucous Cork-based comedy about loveable rogues Conor (Alex Murphy) and Jock (Chris Walley) and their mother/guardian Mairead (Hilary Rose) as she tried to keep them on the straight and narrow. Read interviews with the core cast here.BBC One, 9.30pm

HANCOCK’S HELPERS: To mark what would have been Tony Hancok’s 100th birthday on Sunday, Russell Davies explores the on and off-air relationships the comic had with his comedy colleagues. It’s followed by Briers on Hancock, about Richard Briers’ admiration for The Lad Himself. Both shows were originally made to mark Hancock’s 60th anniversary in 1984. Radio 4 Extra, 10am

Saturday May 11

THE LAVENDER HILL MOB: An airing of the classic Ealing crime caper comedy starring Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway and Sid James.BBC Two 1pm

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Published: 5 May 2024