The comedy week ahead

Sunday June 13

LIVE IN BRISTOL: The city's annual Slapstick Festival of silent and vintage comedy is holding a starry fundraiser at the Colston Hall. Not that we would dare call Jeremy Hardy, Lucy Porter, Marcus Brigstocke or Robin Ince – the line-up for tonight's show 'vintage'.

Monday June 13

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: Laid-back American Todd Barry - known for Flight Of The Conchords, Louie and, well, stand-up - comes to The Zoo with his Crowd Work tour, in which he improvises a show entirely out of talking to the audience. He moves down to London for the rest of the week, where he plays the Soho Theatre.

LIVE IN LONDON: More improvisation,but this time combined with ventriloquism, as Nina Conti brings her ambitious ad-libbed show Talk To The Hand to the Udderbelly on the South Bank for two nights.

TV: Gold goes back to the very start of Peep Show, with the episode that introduced Britain to Mark and Jeremy. See how young  David Mitchell and Robert Webb when the series starts at 12.15am...

Tuesday June 14

LIVE IN DUBLIN: Arrested Development and Mr Show star David Cross is returning to this side of the Atlantic with his new tour Making America Great Again! Inspired by the US elections and especially Donald Trump's appeal to those who want  'white power rallies without the guilt', it's at Vicar Street tonight and the Manchester Academy on Saturday, followed by dates in London, Birmingham and Leeds. Tickets.

TV: Comedy Central launches a couple of new US imports tonight. First, at 11.30pm is Billy On The Street - an impromptu game show in which comedian Billy Eichner tests unsuspecting passers-by on their general knowledge and has attracted celebrity guests including Will Ferrell, Lindsay Lohan  and Michelle Obama. It's followed by @Midnight, at midnight, obviously, an improv show based around social media hosted by Chris Hardwick. Ron Funches, who's currently at the Soho Theatre in London, is the show's most successful player, trivia fans...

Wednesday June 15

TV: Murder In Successville, the ambitious and surreal mix of reality show, sketch show, impression show and whodunit, is back with ex-Geordie Shore regular Vicky Pattison (the real one among fakes) trying to solve this week's celebrity homicide: Nick Knowles. Suspects include Lorraine Kelly, Lewis Hamilton and Len Goodman - Successville's most corrupt politician. The show will be available on the BBC Three website from 10am today.

RADIO: Simon Callow, Jane Horrocks, Miles Jupp and Tom Bell star in the new sitcom Plum House, about the inept staff at an historic property, the former country home of terrible poet George Pudding. This new six-part series follows a successful pilot in 2014. Radio 4, 11.30am

Thursday June 16

LIVE IN LONDON: Mock The Week alumnus Andy Parsons joins habitual benefit contributor Stewart Lee, the incisive Paul Sinha, intensely lively Felicity Ward, astute observationist Kerry Godliman and Canadian gag queen Dana Alexander in an excellent line-up raising money for bereavement charity The Loss Foundation at Islington's Union Chapel, hosted by Tom Deacon.

LIVE IN LONDON: There's a strong bill, too, at legendary venue The 100 Club on Oxford Street, with ever-brilliant Milton Jones, campaigning Bridget Christie and posh boy Ivo Graham.

Friday June 17

RADIO: The BBC Radio New Comedy Award returns for 2016, searching the UK to find the comedy stars of the future. The first heat, from Up The Creek in Greenwich, is hosted by Jessica Fostekew.  After six heats and a semi, the final will be broadcast on Radio 4 on Sunday 14 August, live from the Edinburgh Fringe.Radio 4 Extra, 10.30pm

RADIO: Dead Ringers is back, with the producers saying: 'With a referendum on Europe, a presidential election in America and the BBC in crisis, the team will focus on the things that matter, and quite a few things that don't, like Top Gear and most things on BBC Three.' Get her! Radio 4, 6.30pm

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Published: 12 Jun 2016