The best of the comedy week ahead

The best of the comedy week ahead.

Sunday March 13

LIVE IN GLASGOW: The city’s comedy festival continues all week, and you’re rather spoiled for choice tonight. There’s the ever-brilliant Dylan Moran at the King’s Theatre; hard-hitting, inventive oddness from Richard Gadd at the Stand at the ambitiously early time of 5.30pm and Romesh Ranganathan’s Irrational tour at the Garage - and that’s just scratching the surface of the dozens of shows on offer...

Monday March 14

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: It’s a rare club date for Jason Manford, as he joins Mick Ferry and others for the Shake with Laughter benefit at the Comedy Store in aid of Parkinson’s UK.

LIVE IN GLASGOW: The familiar face of Fred MacAulay hosts the comedy festival’s gala in aid of motor neurone disease charities. The strong line-up of circuit favourites includes Larry Dean, Susie McCabe, Mark Nelson, Phil Jerrod,  Micky Bartlett and Scott Agnew.

Tuesday March 15

LIVE IN LONDON: It’s an impressive bill for an above-a-pub gig as ubiquitous comedy actor Kevin Eldon joins madman Tony Law, former BBC New Comedy Award winner Angela Barnes, musical comic Rachel Parris and host Tom Webb above The Dogstar in Brixton.

RADIO: Love In Recovery, the comedy-drama set in Alcoholics Anonymous and inspired by writer Pete Jackson‘s own road to recovery returns to Radio 4 for a new six-part series, with stars including Julia Deakin, Rebecca Front, John Hannah, Sue Johnston and Paul Kaye.11pm

Wednesday March 16

TV: Gold’s new show The Interviews returns with clips of  Peter Sellers revealing much about his career, his troubles and private life in his own words. ‘The three occasions it really didn’t work are mainly probably due to the fact I’m impossible to live with,’ he says of his marriages in one 1974 interview, for example.10pm

LIVE IN LONDON: Our bet is at least one of these acts will be super-famous by the decade’s end… but which one? Sara Pascoe has the head start but Adam Hess, Lloyd Griffith, Lolly Adefope and Rhys James are all much-tipped up-and-comers too. Place your bets at the AKA Comedy Club in The Islington in, well, Islington.

LIVE IN GLASGOW: Uncles, the new comedy from Burnistoun creators Iain Connell and Robert Florence, gets its premiere at the King’s Theatre, in another comedy festival highlight

Thursday March 17

LIVE IN GLASGOW: Greg Proops flies into the festival for a recording of his Smartest Man In The World podcast at St Luke’s tonight, followed by a new ‘award-seeking’ stand-up show at the Citizens Theatre tomorrow, which promises ‘bitterness, drinking and tears’.

Friday March 18

ON DEMAND: Jimmy Carr becomes the first British comedian to release his stand-up show as a Netflix special, as his  Funny Business tour skips the  DVD step to go straight to the streaming service today. These often brutal one-liners were recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in November.

LIVE IN MELBOURNE (DERBYSHIRE): Tom Binns, whose creations including Ivan Brackenbury were recently showcased in the BBC One pilot Hospital People, joins the ever-engaging Stuart Goldsmith at the Royal British Legion. And they both double up with a second show at the Sir John Moore Foundation in nearby Appleby Magna.

Published: 13 Mar 2016