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

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

Monday September 21

GHOSTS: Rejoice! BBC One’s hit comedy Ghosts returns for a second series, with the young inheritors of a haunted country pile (Charlotte Ritchie and Kiell Smith-Bynoe) coming to terms with their spectral housemates. The spooks are played by the Horrible Histories team that created the show – Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Martha Howe-Douglas, Jim Howick, Laurence Rickard and Ben Willbond – plus Lolly Adefope and Katy Wix. BBC One, 8.30pm

HIP-HOP’S LAUGHING STOCK: Comedian Joe Jacobs’ first Radio 4 show is inspired by his own life as a ‘failing rapper trying to make a career as a stand-up’. In the documentary he meets other artists who bridge the worlds of rap and comedy, learning about hip-hop's humorous roots as well as the world of rap battles. And he meets geek rapper Dan Bull. Radio 4, 4pm

WILD HONEY PIE! A network premiere for this 2018 comedy movie about a couple - one an aspiring writer,the other a struggling DJ - as their marriage hits its first potholes Jemima Kirke) and Richard Elis head a cast that also includes Sarah Solemani, Alice Lowe and Brett Goldstein. Film 4, 11:15pm

Thursday September 24

FUNNY COW: A first TV outing for this 2017 comedy drama starring Maxine Peake as a stand-up comedian fighting to make it on the brutally unforgiving working men's club scene of 1970s northern England. It’s a British Marvelous Mrs Maisel... Film 4, 11:15pm

NEWSJACK: The crowdsourced topical comedy show returns with Kiri Pritchard-McLean at the helm. This series, the 23rd, will be the first to be recorded remotely and without a live audience. And click here for details of how to submit a sketch or one-liner. Radio 4 Extra 10.30pm

Saturday September 26

JONATHAN ROSS’S COMEDY CLUB: Jonathan and co-host Mawaan Rizwan introduce sets by Lloyd Griffith, Joanne McNally, Kemah Bob and Tom Allen. ITV, 10pm.

Published: 20 Sep 2020