The best comedy on demand

The best comedy on demand.

Seinfeld

A new episode of Seinfeld? Well, almost. Actor Topher Grace has edited together all the Seinfeld scenes from the seventh season of Curb Your Enthusiasm, which revolved around the idea of a reunion. Writing on Facebook, Grace says: ‘It’s more like a radio play, but if you sew together all the dialogue from audition scenes, read-throughs and rehearsals together … [it’s] a nine-minute hint at what the plot of a reunion might have been.’

Comics Only With Paul Provenza

The was a short-live talk/variety show hosted by Paul Provenza in 1991/2, long before he examined the nuts and bolts of comedy through projects such as The Aristocrats movie, The Green Room and Set List. Previously he’s released rare clips of Louis CK, Bill Hicks and other comics from the show, and this week Dumped another half-dozen sketches on his YouTube channel

Book Shambles

n the final episode of the current series of this podcast, Robin Ince and Josie Long are joined byEddie Izzard. Along with discussions of theories of the universe and improv, they get into the work of John Higgs, Monty Python and Charlie Chaplin. Previous episodes feature Inside No 9’s Reece Shearsmith and stand-up turned writer and broadcaster Natalie Haynes. All available here

Chain Reaction

The long-running Radio 4 series, in which comedians (usually) interview each other, then pass the baton on so the interviewee becomes the interviewer of another subject he following week, has returned for its 11th series. In the first, available here along with all the previous episodes, Ed Byrne chats to Pub Landlord Al Murray.

Published: 27 Feb 2016