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Monkey Tennis: The Alan Partridge Podcast

Do you like Alan Partridge? Well, probably not as much as these four self-confessed 'idiots', who are taking apart his work a painstaking one episode from the 1997 Travel Tavern series at a time, with plenty of references for the knowing, including a spoof advert. New episodes of the No1 Partridge resource 'for those who don't want to look at Wikipedia or IMDB' are promised on iTunes or here every Wednesday.

Girls Go Trolling

Yep, it's another hidden camera show where comedians irritate people going about their day-to-day work. If it's a genre you enjoy, this new series, available online on All4, is a decent example of its type as Stephanie O'Keeffe, Annie McGrath, Verona Rose and Narin Ozenci bring the cringe. Six mini-episodes have gone online with the teams hitting the likes of a wedding exhibition, a baby show and a music festival. Watch them here.

Burn Your Passport

Speaking of well-trodden format this new podcast involves comedians chatting to each other. The angle here is that each week, affable Australian comedian Nazeem Hussain tries to put his listeners off travelling by sharing horror stories with his guests - one from Oz and one from elsewhere each week – and inviting suggestions for others.

He seems to be genuine mates with each of his guests, which gives the podcast an easy intimacy, while it's made by Australian state broadcaster ABC, so the quality is good… and it's properly edited, running to a tight 30 minutes.

This week's episode featured Waleed Aly and Luisa Omielan, and is available on iTunes.

Grace and Frankie

Season two of this acclaimed comedy has just landed on Netflix, with a new, maturing relationship between Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin's characters. Originally thrown together when they both discovered their husband had been having a long-running affair with each other, they have now come to be more like family… albeit a far from perfect one. Yet other things are constant: as before much of the comedy is born from an honesty about ageing and confronting mortality.