Simon Munnery's mystery package | The week's best comedy on demand

Simon Munnery's mystery package

The week's best comedy on demand

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SIMON MUNNERY: THE MANCHESTER EXPERIMENT: Before Christmas, the comedian put a VHS labelled only The Manchester Experiment, 17th May 2001, into the post with a note reading: 'I tried this twice, it worked once'. He sent it to Go Faster Stripe, the DVD label that has put out many of his shows - and with will tonight stage a one-off screening, introduced by the innovative Munnery himself. Go Faster Stripe's Chris Evans said: 'I don't really want to tell you any more about it so that you can experience the thing the same way I did.' Tickets are available now from Go Faster Stripe, priced £5.

LEICESTER COMEDY FESTIVAL: The online version of England's longest-running comedy festival continues all week. Pick of today's line-up is the (Not So) Late Night Comedy Club at 9pm, featuring Jen Brister, Sindhu Vee, Jen Ives, Myra Dubois, Nathan Caton and Louise Young. Tickets

Sunday February 7

OFF MENU: THE REDEMPTION DINNER PARTY: Ed Gamble and James Acaster invite some of their podcast’s previous guests back to the dream restaurant to reconsider their more contentious meal choices in this live-streamed special. Gamble said: ‘It’s rare to get second chances in life, so we’re excited to give these disgraceful monsters an opportunity to claw back some credibility.’ Tickets are available now from dice.fm, priced £8.

COMEDY VIRGINS MAX TURNER PRIZE: It's the online final of this new act competition run by London's Cavendish Arms and with a top prize of £250. Watch for free on Facebook Live from 7pm - including a headline set from Simon Brodkin.

Monday February 8

UK PUN DAY:  Leicester Comedy Festival's annual celebration of wordplay comprises a day of excruciating social media posts topped by a live UK Pun-Off featuring Adele Cliff, Colin Leggo, Robert Thomas, Lovdev Barparga, Iain MacDonald and Julian Lee in a rap-style battle. The show is at 7pm and tickets, priced a fiver, are available from the Leicester Comedy Festival website.

Tuesday February 9

THE OFFICE DEEP DIVE WITH BRIAN BAUMGARTNER: The actor who played Kevin Malone in the NBC comedy is promising an in-depth look at the long-running sitcom, over 40 to 50 episodes of this new podcast. It is a follow-up to the 12 episodes of An Oral History of The Office which he made for Spotity. The new series will be available via iHeartPodcast and will include full-length interviews with the likes of stars Steve Carell and John Krasinski.

0121: The latest in BBC Three's 'comedy threesomes' - three, three-minute shorts, is about two siblings from Birmingham (hence the dialling code title) who discover a nan they never knew they had. The shorts were written and created by previous student Bafta nominees Jack Hannon and Charlotte Regan and made by Fudge Park, the production company set up by Inbetweeners creators Iain Morris and Damon Beesley. Available on iPlayer from 6am today.

Wednesday February 10

WHO SAID THAT? Mark Olver's online panel show and podcast has returned for a second series, with four comics trying to guess which of their fellow guests was responsible for each answer to questions such as 'What would your Spice Girl name be?' or 'How would you describe how you smell to someone?' Today's guests are Lauren Pattison, Sarah Keyworth, Ruth Bratt and Sara Barron; while last week's were Miles Jupp, Catherine Bohart, Helen Bauer and Sukh Ojla. Watch all the episodes so far here

Thursday February 11

JOSIE LONG: TENDER: The performance of her show about motherhood, kindness, gentleness, and joy that should have taken place at Canterbury's Gulbenkian Theatre tonight instead moves online. Tickets

Friday February 12

JUST THE TONIC: WORKING FROM HOME: Another strong virtual line-up from the Nottingham-based club sees Nina Conti, Noise Next Door, Paul McCaffrey, Scott Bennett, Chris Turner, Huge Davies, Mark Simmons and Mick Ferry fire up their webcams. Tickets

Published: 6 Feb 2021

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