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Brendon Burns: So I Suppose THIS Is Offensive Now

Brendon Burns has put his full award-winning 2007 show online, and for free, all in the name of context. The comic was shocked to see a clip of the special online which, outside of the wider arguments of the show, appeared to show him spouting racist material. It got 14million views, and meant some 'rather unsavoury UKIP voting types' started turning up to his shows. Though Burns didn't call them 'types'.

To counter that, the show, previously available on DVD, is now on YouTube, and the comic has encouraged fans to upload it anywhere they want, too

The Boy With A Camera For A Face

Comedian Spencer Brown won an armful of awards for this 14-minute 'satirical fairy tale' about… well, take a guess.

It raises issues about how we behave under surveillance, and the image we project via a series of inventive, surreal scenes, all narrated by Stephen Berkoff. Now, after 38 festival screenings, it's been released online:

Chelsea Does…

Chelsea Handler's documentary series launches on Neflix today, after receiving its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last night. It's a series of four films, on marriage, racism, Silicon Valley and drugs – and the streaming service says the comedian will 'have hard conversations about things that are not easy to talk about, and calibrating and learning who she is along the way'. Here's the trailer:

The Comic Strip Presents…

As Peter Richardson made a triumphant return this week with Red Top, a daft take on the News International phone-hacking scandal reimagined in the 1970s, what better time to take a look at some of the Comic Strip's back catalogue?

A total of 23 episodes are available on All 4, from classics such as The Strike, Mr Jolly Lives Next Door and the one that started it all, Five Go Mad In Dorset to lesser-seen offerings like The Beat Generation and Susie, in which a love triangle is disturbed by the arrival of an ageing rock star

Take your pick here.

Late Night Line-Up

This week's historical curio is conversation with Morecambe and Wise from 1966 – made available as part of BBC Four's Interviews collection on iPlayer. 'Are you going to ask intelligent questions? We're going to be in trouble here,' Ernie Wise tells interviewer Michael Dean as they begin. Watch it here.

Published: 23 Jan 2016