The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

The week’s comedy on TV and radio.

Sunday July 1

THE MISADVENTURES OF Romesh Ranganathan: The latest series featuring the increasingly ubiquitous comic has him travelling way beyond his comfort zone to some of the most dangerous places on earth. In this first episode, Ranganathan goes to Haiti, which he knows for its former dictator, its natural disasters, and President Trump’s reference to it being a ‘shithole’. Has the world got it wrong about Haiti? Ranganathan and his host, the journalist Jeremy Dupin, visits voodoo ceremonies, cathedrals destroyed by the earthquake and the slums to investigate.. BBC Two, 9pm

Tuesday July 3

DAVID WALLIAMS PRESENTS… RETURN OF ALRIGHT ON THE NIGHT: The Britain’s Got Talent judge takes on the mantle of Denis Norden as the outtakes show returns, after a certain football match. ITV, 9.30pm

Wednesday July 4

TASKMASTER: It’s the last episode in the current series, in which we’ll learn which of the contestants - Alice Levine, Asim Chaudhry, Russell Howard, Tim Vine or Liza Tarbuck - will take home the shiny golden trophy in the shape of Greg Davies’s head. Dave, 9pm

Thursday July 5

RICHARD GADD: DADDY’S DIARIES: The winner of the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Award, makes his debut on BBC Radio 4… but delayed guests, technical problems and personal issues do nothing to help the highly-strung comedian cope with the difficult subject of the show: his abandonment by his father at the age of 12. Radio 4, 11pm

JOHN BISHOP IN CONVERSATION WITH… The comic starts another series of his chat show, with Professor Green his first guest W, 10pm

KEITH LEMON; COMING IN AMERICA: If James Corden can do it, why not Keith Lemon? Leigh Francis’s character crosses the Atlantic to try to break America with the help of guest stars including Sharon and Jack Osbourne, Ashley Roberts, Spencer Pratt, Emma Bunton, John Barrowman and Gene Simmons. His sketch creations including The Urban Fox, The Big Fat Gypsy Kardashians and David Dickinson are also along for the ride. ITV2, 10pm

Friday July 6

THE BBC NEW COMEDY AWARDS: The search for comic talent returns with the first of three heats recorded at Up the Creek Comedy Club in Greenwich, London, the first step on the road to the final at the Edinburgh Fringe and immeasurable riches* for the winner. (* actual measure of prize: £1,000 and a 15-minute script commission). Radio 4 Extra, 10.30pm

Published: 1 Jul 2018