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

The comedy week ahead on TV and radio

Sunday May 12

SUZI RUFFELL: POSTCARDS FROM PORTSMOUTH: In the latest Radio 4 stand-up special, Suzi Ruffell talks about growing up in the Hampshire port - which she also just revisited as part of Comedy Central's Comedy Bus. Radio 4, 7.15pm.

8 OUT OF 10 CATS: Ruffell is also a guest on the E4 panel show tonight, alongside Harriet Kemsley, guest captain Josh Widdicombe, rapper Dotty and presenter Joe Swash. E4. 10pm.

Wednesday May 15

SLICED: Stripped across three nights this week is this new series about two pizza deliverers - played by Samson Kayo and Theo Barklem Biggs - as they deal with vindictive call centre staff, hopeless security guards, hedonistic pensioners and aggressive teens. The stars talk about the show Click here for an interview with the stars. Dave, 10pm.

VEEP: It ends here, the last episode of the last series. Will Julia Louis-Dreyfus's Selina Meyer be victorious in seizing the highest office in the land? Or will every flub, scandal and gaff of the last seven series come back to haunt her? Executive producer David Mandel has said: 'There's an openness to the ending where you can imagine more, but everybody gets an end. Every character, every plot that we've been carrying through these last three years gets a very definitive end to it. It's going to give people exactly what they want - even if it turns out that they don't know it's what they want.' Sky Atlantic, 10.10pm

URBAN MYTHS: This week's story tells of a pre-fame Madonna, when she had a short but passionate relationship with influential 1980s artist Jean Michel Basquiat. The myth takes place across one night on the New York subway, just before she doorstepped music producer Seymour Stein in his hospital bed, where he signed her on the spot. Sky Arts, 9pm

COMEDY CENTRAL LIVE: The channel's new series of short stand-up specials, recorded at Dingwalls in Camden, North London, kicks off with Iain Stirling talking about growing old and his previous job as a children's TV presenter. Comedy Central, 10.30pm

Thursday May 16

WHEN Jeremy Hardy SPOKE TO THE NATION: A two-part retrospective oft the comedian who died in February at the age of 57. Described as 'not quite a biography, not quite a documentary', these programmes celebrate his appearances on Radio 4, from his first stand-up appearances in the mid-1980s, his early sitcom At Home With The Hardys, and right through to his appearances on The News Quiz and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue - as well as his solo series Jeremy Hardy Speaks To The Nation and Jeremy Hardy Feels It. Narrated by his friend and colleague Sandi Toksvig, the programme also features never before broadcast behind-the-scenes material… as well as some of his trademark 'singing'. The show has been made by his long-term collaborator, Pozzitive producer David Tyler, 'who has all the tapes'. Radio 4, 6.30pm

MY DAD WROTE A PORNO: In the HBO special based on the hit podcast, Jamie Morton reads excerpts of his father's 'erotic' writing in front of an audience at London's Roundhouse - as his friends James Cooper and Alice Levine join him in the mockery. Sky Atlantic, 10pm.

Friday May 17

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Assuming they don't mess up their compliance with election rules again, Rhod Gilbert will host with comedian Tom Allen and broadcaster Emma Barnett joining team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton. BBC One, 9pm

THE LAST LEG: Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker return for a 17th series. Channel 4, 10pm

Published: 12 May 2019