Brexitstential comedy
The week's comedy on TV and radio...
Sunday October 27
KILLER CAMP: Comedian Bobby Mair hosts this reality game show in which a gang of British strangers fight it out to be the last one standing at a US summer camp under attack from a mysterious killer. Five episodes air at the same time each night until Halloween. ITV2, 9pm
SOME WILL, SOME WON’T: There's a star-studded cast for this 1970 comedy movie in which Steptoe star Wilfrid Brambell plays Henry Russell, who has left four family members £150,000 in his will, on the condition they do the bizarre tasks he has set out for them. Michael Hordern, Ronnie Corbett, Dennis Price, Leslie Phillips, Arthur Lowe, Thora Hird, James Robertson Justice, Sheila Steafel and more have roles. Talking Pictures TV, 4.10pm.
Monday October 28
YOUNGER: New to the UK, the latest show from Sex And The City creator Darren Star revolves around a 40-yaer-old single mum who goes back into the workplace pretending to be a lot younger than she actually is. Comedy Central, 9pm
TOURIST TRAP: A second series for the BBC Wales mockumentary in which Sally Phillips plays the chief executive of tourist agency Wow! Wales. In this episode, they try to get Banksy to collaborate on an artwork – while Miles Jupp plays the curator of an exhibition visiting the Museum of West Wales. e BBC One Wales,10.35pm
DAVE GORMAN: TERMS AND CONDITIONS APPLY: Jimmy Carr, Sophie Duker and Zoe Lyons guest. Dave, 10pm
Wednesday October 30
COMEDIANS GIVING LECTURES: Lolly Adefope lectures on ‘you don’t need an app for that’, Miles Jupp speaks on ’10 things you don’t know about orgasm’ and Nick Mohammed, in the guise of Mr Swallow, reveals ‘how to improve your memory’. If he can remember the script. Dave, 10pm
DAD’S ARMY: The 2016 movie remake, starring Toby Jones as the grumpy Captain Mainwaring and Bill Nighy as the absent-minded Sergeant Wilson, gets a TV outing. ITV3, 9pm
Thursday October 31
HOW EUROPE STOLE MY MUM: We're leaving Europe... just not today (probably). Still one upside is of Brexit Shambles is that we get this comedy documentary from Kieran Hodgson, based on his Edinburgh show about the first EU referendum in 1975. Also starring Harry Enfield, Liza Tarbuck and Tom Palmer, the programme is billed as 'an irreverent, personal piece about Brexit, which subverts the conventions of factual shows'. Channel 4, 11.05pm
THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MOVIES: Josh Widdicombe and Suzi Ruffell join the regulars for a Halloween-themed episode. Sky One, 9pm
Friday November 1
THE LAST LEG: Jimmy Carr guests. Channel 4, 10pm
Published: 27 Oct 2019