The best comedy on demand

This week's best comedy shows on demand.

Griefcast

Cariad Lloyd has launched this new podcast in which fellow comedians talk about death… timely perhaps at the end of a year that has seen so many influential celebrities pass away, and also important for anyone dealing with grief. The series was inspired in part by her father's death when she was 15 years old and treads the line between funny and sensitive.  Four episodes have been put out this week, featuring the likes of Adam Buxton, who speaks about the death of his father Nigel, and Sara Pascoe, with further episodes expected weekly. Listen on Soundcloud here or on iTunes.

The Shuttleworths

Graham Fellows has turned his most enduring character, Sheffield-based singer-songwriter John Shuttleworth, into a cartoon. A pilot episode on ane animated version of his cult Radio 4 show was released earlier this week, priced £2.99 for a 22-munute episde (here), Fellows also plays other characters including Shuttleworth's  manager Ken Worthington and wife Mary . But guest star Maxine Peake is the real one.

Birthday Girls At The Fringe: Doing Edinburgh

In this mockumentary show, the Edinburgh festival's liveliest sketch trio – Beattie Edmondson, Rose Johnson and Camille Ucan – fight for attention among the hundreds of other comedians on the Fringe. Look out for cameos by James Acaster and Susan Calman:

Ecumenical Matters

This Father Ted podcast has spent seven months watching the classic sitcom, analysing a different episode each week, and now their canon is complete. Ecumenical Matters is hosted by writer, actor and Father Dougal impersonator James McAnespy, and mainly recorded i nhis Belfast flat. Regular features include a running count of Mrs Doyle's 'Ah Go Ons'. Listen here

Published: 26 Nov 2016