Plebs returns, and the rest of the week's comedy on TV and radio

The week's comedy on TV and radio.

Sunday April 8

DYLAN MORAN, LIKE TOTALLY: Dylan Moran recently announced a 2018 autumn tour (Dates). But here's a chance to watch the world-weary Irishman's third stand-up show from 2005, covering such topics as smoking, drinking, music and children. Gold, 11.15pm

THE GENERATION GAME: It's hardly had the most glowing of reviews, but this regeneration gets a second episode tonight with  Roisin Conaty, Pete Firman and Basil Brush among those joining Mel and Sue. BBC One, 8pm

SIR Ken Dodd: WHAT A BEAUTIFUL DAY! Radio 4 Extra remembers Sir Ken Dodd  with a repeat of this 80-minute programme made to celebrate his 90th birthday last November, in which  the veteran comic gave an insight into his life. He left school at 14 to help on his dad's coal round, started performing with a teenage concert party and at his peak had a record-breaking run at the London Palladium. Along with archive clips, it also features interviews with Sir David Jason, Roy Hudd, Jimmy Tarbuck and more. Radio 4 Extra, 8pm

Monday April 9

PLEBS: The ancient Roman comedy returns with new cast member Jonathan Pointing (Read an interview with him here). In the first of a double-bill, which features Robert Lindsay, the boys suffer an industrial accident, while in the second they open a bar, which guest stars Ellie Taylor, they run the gauntlet of food critics when they open a bar. ITV2, 10pm

Thursday April 12

URBAN MYTHS: MARILYN MONROE AND BILLY WILDER Sky Arts returns with a new series of eight extraordinary stories from cultural history, all given a comic spin. This season's episodes include surprising tales involving the likes of Johnny Cash, Marc Bolan, David Bowie, Agatha Christie, Salvador Dali, Alice Cooper, The Sex Pistols, Public Enemy and the stars of Live Aid. The series kicks off with the story of the growing tensions on the set of the 1959 romantic comedy Some Like It Hot, when Marilyn Monroe (Gemma Arterton) continuously struggles to make it to the set on time and fails to remember her lines, much to the chagrin of director Billy Wilder (James Purefoy). Sky Arts, 9pm

Friday April 13

WANNABE: The BBC Three comedy in which People Just Do Nothing star Lily Brazier plays a deluded music manager gets a late-night terrestrial outing. Read our review here.BBC One, 11.25pm

WHATEVER HAPPENED TO THE LIKELY LADS: Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais's  1970s comedy starring Rodney Bewes and James Bolam, stars a repeat run on Yesterday. Five years after the Likely Lads went separate ways, Terry returns to Newcastle after his stint in the Army to find that everything has changed - not least his old drinking buddy Bob, who is now engaged to be married and trying to be upwardly mobile. This opening episode, Strangers On A Train, is rightly considered a sitcom classic. Yesterday, 9pm

Saturday April 14

HARRY HILL'S ALIEN FUN CAPSULE: The comedy panel show returns, with guests on the opening episode including Micky Flanagan and Robert Peston. ITV, 7.30pm.

Published: 8 Apr 2018