The week's best comedy on TV and radio

Here’s our pick of the best comedy programmes on TV, radio and on-demand this week:     

Monday March 7

RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF GAMES: This week, Joe Pasquale and Felicity Ward compete against Coronation Street’s Jennie McAlpine and rugby union player turned pundit Ugo Monye. BBC Two, 6pm  

THE STAND-UP SKETCH SHOW: Tonight’s line-up is Travis Jay, Tom Lucy, Claire Haus, Steen Raskopoulos, Auria Styla, Richard Stott, Suzi Ruffell and Russell Kane. ITV2, 10pm.   

Tuesday March 8

THE WITCHFINDER: In this much-anticipated comedy Tim Key plays a failing witchfinder who finds the uncouth Thomasine Gooch (Daisy May Cooper) accused of killing a pig and decides to transport her across the country in a bid to improve his fortunes. The six-part comedy has been created by Alan Partridge writers  Rob and Neil Gibbons. Key talks about the show here, and Cooper  here. BBC Two, 10pm

MEL GIEDROYC: UNFORGIVABLE: Sally Phillips reveals the best way to get back at a horrible boss, Alan Davies tells all about his court appearance and we find out why you should never leave your kids with Ria Lina.

Wednesday March 9

THE Damien Slash MIXTAPE: A fourth series of the fast-paced, one-man sketch show.  This series, which guest stars Natasia Demetriou, sees the mafia update their diversity policy, Rick Stein  tour the motorways of Great Britain, and Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer face off in  he rap show Fire In The Booth. Radio 4, 11pm  

HOW I MET YOUR FATHER: The follow-up to How I Met Your Mother comes to Disney. Kim Cattrall plays Sophie in the year 2050, recounting to her unseen son the events that followed meeting his father in January 2022. Hilary Duff is the younger Sophie..

Published: 6 Mar 2022