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

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

Tuesday November 6

SALUTING DAD'S ARMY: Alexander Armstrong hosts a four-part celebration of the classic sitcom, 50 years after the series was first broadcast. Read an interview with him here. Gold, 8pm

I'LL GET THIS: A new celebrity game show in which five famous faces go out for dinner together. When they arrive at the restaurant they must place their bank card in the centre of the table. As the food is served and the drinks flow, they play a series of fun and revealing games. If they win a game, they can retrieve their card. The person whose card remains at the end of the evening must pick up the bill for the whole group. Comedians Ed Gamble and Ellie Taylor take part in this opening episode, alongside Carol Vorderman, Rylan-Clark Neal and Anton Du Beke. while those taking part in future weeks include Griff Rhys Jones, Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe. BBC Two, 10pm

Wednesday November 7

TASKMASTER: Series 7 comes to an end, so who will take Greg Davies's shiny head trophy? James Acaster, Jessica Knappett, Kerry Godliman, Phil Wang or Rhod Gilbert? Dave, 9pm

THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: Tracey Ullman is Melvyn Bragg's subject as the arts profile programme returns. Sky Arts, 10pm

ROB DELANEY'S STAND UP CENTRAL Iain Stirling and Emily Lloyd Saini are the guests on this week's showcase. Comedy Central, 10pm

YOU'RE THE WORST The well-received American comedy returns to Comedy Central for a second series (it's on Season 4 in the States with a fifth and final run in the pipeline). It charting the relationship between Jimmy (Chris Geere), a self-involved writer, and Gretchen (Aya Cash), a self-destructive Los Angeles PR executive. Comedy Central, 11pm

Thursday November 8

THE Russell Howard HOUR: Russell Howard, who has just announced his biggest tour yet, returns for a second series of his topical show. This series includes a new strand called Live Forever in which he'll be joined by fellow comedians including Greg Davies, Jimmy Carr and Roisin Conaty to try out alleged life-prolonging antics. Sky1, 10pm

Friday November 9

THE NEWS HUDDLINES: Yes, you read that right! Radio 4 Extra begins a run of selected episodes of Roy Hudd's topical sketch show which ran for 26 years on BBC Radio 2 from 1975. In this episode, from 1976, he and co-stars Janet Brown and Chris Emmet poke fun at the resignation of Harold Wilson as Prime Minister, female impersonator Danny La Rue's new mansion, and revealing extracts from the diary of future PM, Maggie Thatcher. Radio 4 Extra, 8.30am

Saturday November 10

THE ORIGINAL GODFATHER: Legendary comedy writer Denis Norden, who died in September at the age of 96, talks about the legacy of his radio comedy partnership with Frank Muir in this programme, which was first broadcast on Radio 4 Extra in November 2007. Presenter Paul Jackson explores the legacy of this remarkable writing partnership, also speaking to the duo's secretary, Brenda Talbot and fellow writers Dick Vosburgh, Eric Sykes, Ray Galton, Alan Simpson, Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais. Norden and Muir served in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War, where both spent much of their free time writing comedy material to amuse fellow servicemen. In 1947 they were brought together over lunch and went on to create Take It From Here, with its regular serial The Glums, which helped launch a particularly British style of sitcom. In their long careers, they also wrote for Peter Sellers, Benny Hill, Peter Ustinov, and Bob Monkhouse. Radio 4 Extra, 8am and repeated at 3pm.

Published: 4 Nov 2018