The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and on demand this week:

Sunday May 28

BARRY HUMPHRIES AT THE BBC: Alex Jones looks back at the highlights of Barry’s career in this posthumous tribute. BBC Two 9pm

AN AUDIENCE WITH Ronnie Corbett: Shaggy dog stories abound in the comedian's 1997 show in front of an audience of celebrities. And it's followed by Jimmy Tarbuvk's show from 1994. ITV3, 8pm

Monday May 29

THE UNBELIEVABLE TRUTH: David Mitchell's panel show returns with Alan Davies, Holly Walsh, Angela Barnes and Henning When trying to catch each other out by sneaking true facts into their nonsense. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Tuesday May 30

I THINK YOU SHOULD LEAVE WITH TIM ROBINSON: The acclaimed offbeat sketch comedy show returns to Netflix for its third series. Guest stars include Tim Heidecker, Jason Schwartzman, Fred Armisen and Patti Harrison, all helping the ritual comic 'hit new heights of exquisitely awkward absurdity.'.

A BLACK LADY SKETCH SHOW: For the fourth season of the show that is very much explained by its title the core team of Robin Thede, Gabrielle Dennis, and Skye Townsend are joined by three new featured players: DaMya Gurley, Tamara Jade, and Angel Laketa Moore. Sky Comedy, 10pm

Wednesday May 31

SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE: The comedy about Samantha (Sogia Black-D'Elia) moving back home with her mum (Ally Sheedy) as she struggles to become sober returns to Disney+ for a second series.

ROOM 101: Paul Merton's guest this week is Desiree Burch. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Thursday June 1

CHANGING ENDS: Alan Carr's sitcom - co-written with Two Doors Down's Simon Carlyle - is based on the comic's early own life in Northampton in the 1980s growing up as the gay son of a fourth-division football manager. Carr narrates the story from the present-day perspective, while Oliver Savell plays him as child. All episodes are on ITVX from today, as the streamer drops a new homegrown comedy series every Thursday in June.

TASKMASTER: It's the final episode of the 15th series and we learn who will take home Greg Davies's golden head, Frankie Boyle, Jenny Eclair, Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Mae Martin or – unlikely as it seems given the leaderboard – Ivo Graham. Channel 4, 9pm

Friday June 2

DEADLOCH: Australian comedy duo Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan created this 'feminist noir comedy' about two detectives investigating a series of murder, which starts on Amazon's Prime Video tonight. The ensemble cast of this crime drama parody also includes antipodean comics Tom Ballard, Susie Youssef and many others.

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Naga Munchetty is guest host, with panellists Baroness Ruth Davidson and Hugh Dennis. BBC One, 9pm

THE LATEISH SHOW WITH Mo Gilligan: The comedian is joined by Sir Mo Farah and Guz Khan .Channel 4, 10pm

Published: 28 May 2023