The week's best comedy on TV and radio

The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.

Sunday March 14

THE RANGANATHAN: Richard Madeley and Maisie Adam are the guests in this last episode of the series BBC Two, 9pm

BEEP: A one-off spring from a Scottish comedy writers initiative revolves around a dysfunctional family as they visit Tommy, who is in a coma in a Glashow hospital after being hit by a car. Stars include Siobhan Redmond and it has been written by Bryce Hart. BBC Two, 9.45pm

STEPHEN MERCHANT: HELLO LADIES: The Office co-creator's 2011 stand-up show about dating gets an airing as part of the BBC's Festival Of Funny. BBC Two, 10:15pm

BORDERLINE: A POSTCARD FROM THE EDGE OF THE UNION: This dispatch from post-Brexit Northern Ireland comes from comedian and presenter Patrick Kielty in his hometown of Dundrum, County Down, near the border with the EU. From pre-ceasefire to post-Brexit, Paddy shares his Northern Ireland experiences to a virtual, but local, audience. Radio 4, 7.15pm

Monday March 15

RICHARD OSMAN'S HOUSE OF GAMES: Richard Herring and Dane Baptiste are the comedians on this week’s shows, doing intellectual battle with Julie Sarpong and Kate Williams. BBC Two, 6pm

THE STAND-UP SKETCH SHOW:Seann Walsh, Sarah Keyworth, Tessa Coates, Iain Stirling, Fin Taylor and Judi Love witness their stand-up routines acted out as sketches, ITV2, 10.05pm

FAWLTY TOWERS: Now here's a sitcom from some comedy underdog that looks like it might have some promise... The full series (bar the worst racism) gets a repeat run. BBC One, 8.30pm

Tuesday March 16

MEL GIEDROYC: UNFORGIVABLE: This week Sara Pascoe reveals a terrible lie she told about having leukaemia to get out of work experience, Chris Kamara tells how he burnt his parents' house down and Jo Brand divulges how she was responsible for putting a guy she hooked up with on holiday in prison. Dave, 10pm

Wednesday March 17

BILL BAILEY: LIMBOLAND: After his Strictly success, the multi-talented comic's 2018 stand-up show, recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo, gets a primetime BBC One airing, typically concealing sharp ideas behind his hippyish exterior. BBC One, 9pm

HYPOTHETICAL:Sally Phillips, Huge Davies, Helen Bauer and Joel Dommett this week tackle the bizarre hypothetical scenarios dreamed up by Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster. Dave, 10pm

DNA JOURNEY: Amanda Holden and Alan Carr discover their family histories. ITV, 9pm

Thursday March 18

TASKMASTER: It's back! With the 11th batch of lambs to the slaughter comprising Charlotte Ritchie, Jamali Maddix, Lee Mack, Mike Wozniak and Sarah Kendall, all of whom will be trying to come up with inventive workarounds for the challenges set by Alex Horne, and so sternly judged by Greg Davies. We can't wait! Channel 4, 9pm

ROB BRYDON'S NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL COMIC RELIEF: A rundown the funniest, sweetest and daftest musical sketches and performances ever done in the name of Comic Relief. Memories include Bjork and Steve Coogan as Tony Ferrino; Tom Jones and Lenny Henry as Theophilus P Wildebeest; and of course Peter Kay's Amarillo... BBC Two 10pm

MEET DAVID SEDARIS: The keen-eyed, keen-witted American humourist returns with a new series of whimsical comedy dispatches. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Friday March 19

THE FLIGHT ATTENDANT: Kaley Cuoco stars in this comedy thriller, as Cassie Bowden,a globe-trotting stewardess who wakes up one morning in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a dead man - and no idea what happened. Haunted by the bleak future she faces if she doesn't clear her name, Cassie scrambles to put together the pieces of a night in Bangkok gone terribly wrong....Sky One, 9pm

COMIC RELIEF: The mammoth night of comedy fundraising includes new sketches from Vicar Of Dibley and Staged, Jack Whitehall conducting a Zoom meeting with some celebrity friends and Mel Giedroyc parodying the opening scene of Bridget Jones' Diary, Tim Vine telling jokes to military personnel while hidden within a funfair-style fortune telling machine, a mash-up of Normal People and Fleabag, and more. And at 10.45pm, Jason Manford and Amanda Holden host a 'prizeathon' game show, featuring guests, comedy sketches and live music. BBC One, 7pm

Published: 14 Mar 2021