Adolf Hitler, comedian

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Look Who's Back

Adolf Hitler as a comedian? That's the premise of this German satire, just added to Netflix. Based on a bestselling novel by Timur Vermes, the idea is that Fuhrer reawakens at the site of his former bunker with no idea what's happened, assuming that his Reich was victorious. Meanwhile everyone else thinks he's a comedian doing a character. Hat-tip to New On Netflix, which tracks what's added to the on-demand service.

Chain Reaction

The BBC has put every episode from all 11 series of this Radio 4 talk show online, with the distinctive twist that the interviewee from one episode, usually a comedian, becomes the interviewer for the next. So in episode one, from back in 2005, Jenny Eclair interviewed Jimmy Carr, who interviewed Matt Lucas who interviewer Johnny Vegas and so on. Stewart Lee, Frankie Boyle, Al Murray, Tim Minchin and Stephen Merchant are but four of the other comics to have appeared over 66 episodes. Listen to them all on iPlayer here. There was an earlier four-episode incarnation on Radio 5 Live in 1991, but that's not online.

2016: Year Friends

The monthly web series seems to have got slightly off schedule, with episodes 3 and 4 both being put up yesterday and awkwardly entitled March/April Part 1 and Part 2. They've also changed the name from simply 2016, which proved hard to Google, as anyone could have told them...

The weird sketch comedy features the alternative comedians Jamie Demetriou, Natasia Demetriou, Daran Johnson, Al Roberts, Ellie White and Liam Williams, who turned to the web after their BBC Three sketch pilot People Time wasn't picked up for a series.