The comedy week ahead

The comedy week ahead...

Monday November 2

TV: Ardal O’Hanlon, John Thomson and Jaime Winstone star in After Hours, a new comedy drama directed by Craig Cash and written by Molly Naylor and John Osborne. Read more here/ Sky 1, 9.30pm. It directly follows the return of Trollied for its fifth series of eight episodes.Sky 1, 9pm.

Tuesday November 3

TV: Alan Davies As Yet Untitled returns for a third series with Lee Mack, Nick Helm, Olivia Lee and Katherine Jakeways. And the title they came up with at the end of the show? I Have Been Fingered By Captain Kirk. That got your interest? Here is our episode guide to the series. Dave, 10pm

Wednesday November 4

TV: You can finally see Brit ventriloquist Paul Zerdin’s winning performance on America's Got Talent, when the final goes out on truTV UK at 8pm tonight. The show also feature Piff The Magic Dragon, although the channel might take some finding. It’s on Freeview 68, Sky 198 and FreeSat 154.

LIVE IN HOUGHTON-LE-SPRING: A good line-up of circuit faves gather at the Rainton Meadows Arena tonight for a fundraiser for Macmillan Cancer Support: Jason Cook, Justin Moorhouse, Paul Tonkinson and Steffen Peddie.

LIVE IN YORK: Joe Lycett takes his That’s The Way, A-Ha A-Ha, Joe Lycett tour to York tonight… which we specially mention as he’s playing The Duchess; which just happens to be this delightful comedian’s nickname, too…

Thursday November 5

LIVE IN LONDON: You don’t often see impressionist Jon Culshaw live, nor the excellent comic actor Kevin Eldon for that matter. Yet they share a bill at Koko in Camden tonight, raising funds for homeless charity Crisis with stand-ups Bob Mills, John Robins, and Tony Law and Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell completing the bill.

LIVE IN FARNHAM: Stephen K Amos kicks off his 38-date tour of The Laughter Master. Full dates.

LIVE IN CANTERBURY: A couple of the alternative circuit’s finest play the Marlowe Theatre tonight, in the form of Pat Cahill and Edinburgh Comedy Award winner John Kearns. Super-charming Elis James and quirky Harriet Kemsley complete the line-up.

Friday November 6

NETFLIX: Master Of None, the new comedy from Parks and Rec star and top-earning stand-up Aziz Ansari makes its debut. In it, the comic plays Dev Shah, an actor fumbling his way through relationships, work and life.

Saturday November 7

LIVE IN LONDON: The Chortle Comedy Book Festival is upon us We kick off with a kids’ session with David Baddiel at 11am, then over the day Isy Suttie unveils her new show, based on her memoirs yet to be published, we delve into the secrets of Douglas Adams’s archive, and into the darkest recesses of comedians’ minds as Robin Ince reads from the Dead Funny anthology of horror writing. The Now Show’s Jon Holmes explains why he’s an idiot - like all men – via his entertaining memoirs, and cult creation Bob Servant (whose books have been compared to Spike Milligan and Peter Cook) puts on a full show with his pals. Click here for full details and tickets. Hornsey Town Hall Arts Centre, Crouch End.

Published: 1 Nov 2015