The week's comedy on demand

The week's best comedy on demand.

Jonathan Pie: Back To The Studip

The latest live show from the always-angry news reporter, recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo, has landed on iPlayer.

Tom Walker's alter ego is fed-up of being 'stuck on street corners with a microphone like some sort of news hooker' so is piloting an Andrew Marr-style Political Roadshow. But his attempts to host a night of serious political discussions about the effects of Tory cuts and Trump's demented tweets soon descend into chaos when he stumbles into a twitterstorm of offence.

It'sa provocative passionate and funny 75 minutes of rare intensity, as we recorded in our review of the original live show here.

In a slightly odd release strategy, it's been put out for free on iPlayer at the same time as the paid-for on-demand service NextUp.

Marek's Bedtime Stories

A new short-form podcast from comedian Marek Larwood, which he describes as 'a combination of unsettling short stories and sounds' and also 'not suitable for children or the easily scared.'

Listen to the first ten-minute episode here.

Stupid Qubit - Quantum Computing for the Clueless

Yep, yet another comedy podcast about the weird world of quantum computing There are just so many of them.

This is the brainchild of Jim Mortleman and Stuart Houghton – a pair of aspiring comedy writers and successful freelance technology journalists. They said: 'Quantum computing is like nothing we've seen before and once we started to investigate it both of us thought it was a) something people need to know about because it's potentially so revolutionary and b) so full of brain-warping ideas, crazy contraptions and mad geniuses that humour seemed the ideal way to approach it.'

The first in the occasional series has been released now, featuring Dr Jerry Chow of IBM, Professor John Martinis of Google, Professor Simon Benjamin of Oxford University, and Pub Landlord Al Murray. One of these is not like the others.

Subscribe on Soundcloud or iTunes. There's also a 'visually enhanced' YouTube version 

Get Him To The Greek

Russell Brand's 2010 Hollywood escapade arrives on Netflix. The comic plays an unruly rock star opposite Jonah Hill, an ambitious young record company intern charged with escorting him to Los Angeles for a gig.

Also added to Netflix this week was Four Weddings And A Funeral.

Published: 6 Oct 2018