The comedy week ahead...

The comedy week ahead...

Sunday September 25

TV: As part of its ongoing Ealing Comedy series, Gold airs the 1949 classic Kind Hearts And Coronets, in which Alec Guinness plays eight unsuspecting members of the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family - murdered one by one by their scheming, outcast cousin Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price). 8.50pm

LIVE IN LONDON: Three lauded alt.comedy shows from the Fringe for just £4 at the new Angel 2.0 club in Islington this afternoon as online comedy video-makers Turtle Canyon film stand-ups Pat Cahill, Sean McLoughlin and Tim Renkow in action. Be quick though - it's in the afternoon. 3pm

LIVE IN LIVERPOOL: Expect a celebratory mood at the #JC4PM tour, as Jeremy Corbyn's comedy cheerleaders play St George's Hall tonight and tomorrow. Francesca Martinez, Rufus Hound, Sara Pascoe, Steve Gribbin and Jeremy Hardy are on a bill that also includes music and poetry.

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: The hit podcast Comedy Bang! Bang! comes to the UK for a four-night tour, kicking off at the Manchester Dancehouse tonight. Scott Aukerman hosts the recording, as always, with guests Paul F. Tompkins & Lauren Lapkus. It's at the Nottingham Glee tomorrow, Hyde Park Picture House in Leeds on Tuesday and London's Shepherd's Bush Empire on Wednesday.

Monday September 26

TV: Morgana Robinson plays Miranda Hart, Natalie Cassidy, Russell Brand, Joanna Lumley, Gregg Wallace, Mel and Sue, Danny Dyer and Adele in the Agency, a seven-part mockumentary about the clients of leading talent agent Vincent Mann. She speaks about the show here. BBC Two, 10pm

Tuesday September 27

TV: After tackling the NHS in Getting On, Jo Brand joins with co-writer Morwenna Banks for a new comedy set among social workers struggling with government cuts, stress-related sick leave, useless temporary staff and an ever increasing client list. Damned also stars Alan Davies, Kevin Eldon, Isy Suttie and Aisling Bea, among others. Here is Brand talking about the show. Channel 4, 10pm

LIVE IN LONDON: The Barbican Centre hosts a benefit for LBGTQ group Stonewall featuring Barbara Nice, Isma Almas, Maureen Younger, Suzi Ruffell, Zoe Lyons, Jayde Adams and Sarah Keyworth.

LIVE IN LONDON: After being nominated for best newcomer at last year's Edinburgh Fringe, Glaswegian Larry Dean this year scooped the Amused Moose Comedy Award. And as his prize he performs his show Farcissist, about emotional detachments and an absent love life, at the Soho Theatre at 7pm tonight.

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: Toby Hadoke's much-loved XS Malarkey club celebrates its 19th birthday with a line-up we're not allowed to mention.

Wednesday September 28

LIVE IN LONDON: A cracking night at the 99 Club in Ruby Blue, Leicester Square, boasts Bob Mills, Hal Cruttenden and Joel Dommett, compered by that man again, Toby Hadoke.

Thursday September 29

TV: The 11th series of Red Dwarf continues on Dave with episode 2, Samsara When the Dwarfers investigate a crashed ship at the bottom of an ocean moon, Lister and Cat become trapped together, while Rimmer and Kryten discover the ship is controlled by a dark force… 9pm

LIVE IN LONDON: Barry Crimmins is one of the most fascinating figures in American comedy, and arrives at the Leicester Square Theatre for a three-night run from tonight. He was the godfather of the Boston stand-up scene of the 1980s which spawned Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Bobcat Goldthwait, with his political activism and artistic purity providing the heart of the circuit. And then he turned his attentions to a crusade against online child pornography when the internet was still in its infancy, despite the psychological cost of watching such horrors. His story was told in the recent, fascinating, documentary film Call Me Lucky, directed by Goldthwait and currently available on Netfllx. Here's a chance to see the comedy that back-story inspired.

LIVE IN LONDON: Nor is Crimmins the only comedian and social-activist in town, as outspoken - and absurdly hilarious neo-vaudevillian – Hans Teewen pops over from his native Netherlands for a couple of weeks at the Soho Theatre ahead of a national tour. Dates

LIVE IN WINCHESTER: The city's four-day comedy festival kicks off with a choice of sardonic smarty-pants Simon Evans, the brutally self-analytical stand-up of Alfie Brown and Sean McLoughlin, angry polemicist Jonathan Pie and the relevant young voice of Jamali Maddix, among others. Website

LIVE IN EDINBURGH: A strong couple of nights at the Stand has ever-inventive Simon Munnery, the upbeat musical comedy of Pippa Evans and top host Bruce Devlin.

Friday September 30

LIVE IN COLCHESTER: A line-up of local comedians launches the fourth year to the Essex town's comedy festival, with 30 events over the next 16 days, including films, workshops and kids' shows among stand-up from the likes of Rich Hall, Miles Jupp, Lucy Porter and Jo Caulfield. The free launch event takes place at the Headgate Theatre tonight.

LIVE IN LINCOLN: Another east of England comedy festival kicks off with Rob Auton's Sleep Show, followed by the sold-out launch of Jason Byrne's anarchic new prop-based hour tomorrow night. Click here for the festival's website and here for Byrne's dates.

LIVE IN LONDON: It's worth making a trip down south to Streatham - if you don't already live near there - to the lovely line-up at the Hideway, with two of the best comics of last month's Edinburgh Fringe, Carey Marx and Felicity Ward, joined by the camp charms of Robin Morgan, and for only tenner, a bargain for such a strong Friday night bill.

LIVE IN LONDON: Josie Long premieres her eighth solo stand-up show, Something Better,at Soho Theatre. The show's about 'optimism and hopefulness', Long's stock-in-trade, despite a wider world that doesn't always fit with her ideals. As she says, she didn't expect to be living in a country that 'voted with the far right parties to march us all off a cliff. I thought we would have won by now.' It's on until October 15.

Saturday October 1

RADIO: Ahead of National Poetry Day, Kevin Eldon and his poet alter-ego Paul Hamilton take a look at the crossover between the spoken word artform and comedy in Radio 4 Extra's three-hour Saturday morning slot. The line-up includes Tim Key's Late Night Poetry Programme from 2014; the Poetry Society episode of Hancock's Half Hour from 1959 and Hovis Has Left The Building, a celebration of the great Mr Presley, from 2008. 9am

LIVE IN MANCHESTER: Another Manchester comedy club birthday, this time for the Group Therapy night at Gorilla, boast some of the most promising up-and-comers, including hugely inventive Jordan Brookes, super-literate Liam Williams and socially astute livewire Tez Ilyas, all compered by affable off-the-wall metalhead Andrew O'Neill.

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Published: 25 Sep 2016