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The week's best comedy on TV and radio

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

Sunday July 9

MR HULOT'S HOLIDAY: Jacques Tati's classic, near-silent 1953 slapstick comedy - the first outing for his well-meaning but clumsy title character - gets an airing. Talking Pictures TV, 7pm

Monday July 10

WONDERS OF THE WORLD I CAN'T SEE: Chris McCausland is this week joined by Liza Tarbuck, who will try to describe the majest of Niagara Falls to her blind travelling companion. They also try axe throwing - which really doesn't seem wise - and the traditional Quebecois dish, poutine. Channel 4, 10pm

THE Lenny Henry SHOW: New to Gold is the comedian's first solo TV outing, from 1984. The show featured a mixture of stand-up, characters, film and music video spoofs - most notably Henry's send-up of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, in which he turns from a werewolf into the singer. His memorable characters included Theophilus P. Wildebeeste - the soul-singing 'one man sex machine', and Deakus, the elderly philosophising Jamaican. Gold, 9.20pm

I'M SORRY I HAVEN'T A CLUE: Jack Dee returns for a new series, giving Tony Hawks, Pippa Evans, Marcus Brigstocke and Rory Bremner silly things to do. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Wednesday July 12

THE LIONESSES: A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN SPECIAL: With the Women's football World Cup just around the corner, Jill Scott guides Maisie Adam and Katherine Ryan through what it takes to be a world-beating Lioness. Sky Max, 9pm

THE AFTERPARTY: Jack Whitehall and Ken Jeong join the cast for the second series of the Apple TV+ comedy, which tells the story of how a groom comes to have wound up dead at a party from the point of view of each of the guests - and in a different genre each week.

Thursday July 13

CHORTLE STUDENT COMEDY AWARD FINAL: 24-and-a-bit hours after the live climax of our annual talent hunt at London's Up The Creek comedy club, the final gets broadcast on Radio 4 Extra for the first time in its 20-year history. Mark Watson introduces 10 of the best of the next generation of student comics hoping to follow in the footsteps of previous winners and finalists such as Joe Lycett, Chris Ramsay, Simon Bird and Jamali Maddix. Our 2023 finalists are Alex Knipe, Hannah Yarwood, Ivo Pope, Josh Adkins, Muhsin Yesilada, Daniel Petrie, Emmerson Young, Katie Carrig, Michael McKenzie and Riki Msindo. Tickets are available here Radio 4 Extra, 10.30pm

SURVIVAL OF THE THICKESS: This new Netflix comedy revolves around plus-sized black woman Mavis Beaumont - as played by comic Michelle Buteau tryting to make it in the New York fashion world dominated by skeletal white women.

ED REARDON'S WEEK: The long-running comedy about a curmudgeonly middle-aged writer returns. It is written by Andrew Nickolds and Chris Douglas, who plays the title role, and this series is dedicated to Nickolds, who died in December, aged 73, midway through writing the series. Radio 4, 6.30pm

BILL BAILEY'S MASTER CRAFTERS: THE NEXT GENERATION: In this returning series celebrating traditional crafts the comic meets experts in wood carving, silversmithing and, in this opening episode, stained glass.Sky Max, 8pm