This week's comedy on demand

The week's best comedy on demand.

Microscope

Mat Ewins and John Kearns's new improvised podcast in which inquisitor Ewins some of the world's biggest mysteries launched yesterday with the supernatural story of a small chain of obscure theme parks that have been overrun with ghosts. Future episodes will feature a farmer kidnapped by penguins and a gym that's been infiltrated by wizards Microscope, which is recorded in front of a live audience, is available on Apple Podcasts, Acast and Spotify.

Enterprice

Kayode Ewum's series about two young hustlers from South London trying to get their delivery business Speed-Kazz off the ground returned for a second series of five episodes this week. Follow the adventures of Kazim (Ewumi) and Jeremiah (Trieve Blackwood-Cambridge) as they make deal with dangerous market stall holders, unpredictable music producers and over-friendly CEOs on iPlayer.

Marc Maron: End Times Fun

The End Times feel even closer now than when the acerbic, curmudgeonly American comedian and top-rated podcaster recorded this Netflix special. Anti-vaxxers, evangelicals and the grown male nerds responsible for the huge success of the Marvel universe are among the targets of his exhausted disdain, before he launches into a gleeful apocalyptic fantasy with the sky on fire. Watch on Netflix.

Don't Sell the Tiger

Comedians Margaret Cabourn-Smith, Jessica Fostekew and Hatty Ashdown star in this award-wining short. After the death of their father, three sisters return to the family home to pack up his belongings. But the squabbling siblings can't agree on the fate of one family heirloom - a mysterious bronze tiger.

Mistress America

New on Netflix is this critically acclaimed 2015 comedy film directed by Noah Baumbach, who wrote it with his partner, the Little Women director Greta Gerwig, who also stars as a Manhattan sophisticate who takes an anxious newcomer to the city under her wing. In a five-star write-up the Guardian called it 'a hilarious and hectic picture' on the themes of 'life crises and tragicomic delusions'. Watch here.

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Meanwhile,Baumbach's earlier film, 2005's The Squid And The Whale, has also been released on Amazon Prime, telling of a teenager whose writer-parents – played by Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney – are divorcing.

The Secret Artist

In the last episode of this podcast series, host Annie McGrath as joined by Joel Dommett and his fashion model wife Hannah Cooper for a three-way life drawing session… though they all kept their undies on. Other guests over the series, who all created artwork while having a chat, included Phil Wang, Katy Wix, Alex Horne and  Lolly Adefope. And a second run is on the way, including episodes taped at the Machynlleth Comedy Festival where McGrath will be joined by Spencer Jones, Jayde Adams and Jack Barry. Listen here.

Published: 14 Mar 2020