The best comedy on demand

This week's best comedy shows on demand.

Gareth Richards' Lonely Hearts Podcast.

A new podcast, recorded in front of a live audience and featuring elements of musical comedy and David Trent as Richards's sidekick/house band. Trent has also been busy cutting and pasting audio snippets together to provide his distinctive (and sometimes irritating) interruptions to the conversations.

Episode two, featuring John Robins, Lou Sanders, Rob Auton and Roisin Conaty, went online earlier this month and the next one, featuring James Acaster and Rachel Parris records at Downstairs At The Kings Head in Crouch End, North London, next Tuesday.<

Grace And Frankie

Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin return for a third series of the acclaimed Netflix comedy – with their characters trying to get a new business off the ground: selling sex toys and vibrators to pensioners. Season three went live yesterday – and seasons four is already in production.

Off The Mic

This is a new round-table discussion programme with comedians tackling 'topical' issues - basically The Wright Stuff for YouTube – though they will surely have to up their schedule to more than the planned monthly cycle if they are to remain relevant.

In the first batch, host Sam Russell moderated as Ian Smith, Shazia Mirza, Slim and Mitch Benn discussed issues from Trump's executive orders to the Netflix series Dear White People.

After Hours - How To Ruin Your Favorite Sitcoms With Simple Math

The nerdy Cracked 'after hours' team get over-literal with sitcom storylines, mostly analysing the fictional timelines and figuring what's wrong. But Brits might not agree with the verdict that Norm from Cheers has a drink problem because he's averaging a beer-and-a-half every night.

Published: 25 Mar 2017