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The best comedy on demand

This week's best comedy shows on demand.

Brown Bread

The second comedy podcast about death in a few months. Last year, Cariad Lloyd released four episodes of her Griefcast. Now Anneka Harry – whose mum is a cemeteries officer – discusses matters of mortalities with her guests, starting with Natasia Demetriou.

But despite the premise, the tone is jaunty and positive, with discussions about bucket lists, hypothetical last meals, reincarnations and the like. Listen here

Just A Couple

This is BBC Three's latest short-form sitcom about a millennial couple, Mark and Shavon, and largely set in the flat they share. Starring relative newcomers Michael Salami and Frieda Thiel, the series started life as a YouTube sketch and is now a series of six ten-minute episodes, being released weekly. In the first, below, the couple play a relationship quiz, but it gets getting a little too close for comfort.

Amy Schumer: The Leather Special

As Netflix gears up to release one special a week, it's latest offering features Amy Schumer's typically frank discussions of sex, dating and fame. Recorded at Denver's Bellco Theatre, the show is heavy on the filth, but also covers the weirdness of being a celebrity and the issue of gun control, mentioning the two women killed when a gunman ran amok during a screening of her movie Trainwreck. A trailer is below, and Netflix subscribers can watch here.

Danielle Ward - Seventeen

Meanwhile British comedy-on-demand website NextUp has also added some new shows, including Danielle Ward looking back on her own life to offer nine lessons for 17-year-olds. For everyone can serve as a bad example.

The show premiered at last year's Fringe – though this was recorded at the Phoenix in London – and covers politics, Nineties pop culture and some of the tougher aspects of being a teenager, with songs mixed into the stand-up. Subscribers can watch here

Book Shambles

Robin Ince and Josie Long are this week joined by Dane Baptiste, for an interview more in-depth than most comedian-on-comedian podcasts. Over 45 minutes Baptiste talks about the diversity of the stand-up scene, his own artistic aims and occasionally touches on the supposed literary theme of the podcast, speaking, for example, about how Malcolm X's biography got him into stand-up.