Comedy Slab
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
115 - Red Dwarf
05 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Red Dwarf (Series 10 Episode 1) Following a catastrophic leak of radiation aboard mining space ship Red Dwarf, technician Dave L...
114 - Mortimer & Whitehouse Gone Fishing
28 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Hitmen (Series 3 Episode 4) Paul Whitehouse is an experienced fisherman; Bob Mortimer is a complete novice. Their friendship str...
113 - Hitmen
21 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Hitmen (Series 1 Episode 1) Hitmen is about two best friends trying to make their way in the world with only each other to rely ...
112 - Detectorists
14 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Detectorists (Series 3 Episode 1) Detectorists follows the relationship between two friends who share a passion for metal detect...
111 - Staged
07 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Staged (Series 1 Episode 1) David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of Six Ch...
110 - Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters
31 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Letters (Series 1 Episode 4) This series started life as a one-off recording of Tom Wrigglesworth's Edi...
109 - Early Doors
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Early Doors (Series 2 Episode 1)Â Gentle paced comedy series set in a small Manchester public house. Landlord Ken has been left ...
108 - Parks & Recreation
17 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Parks & Recreation (Series 3 Episode 1) Parks and Recreation is an American political satire sitcom television series created by...
107 - What We Do In The Shadows
10 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - What We Do In The Shadows (Series 1 Episode 1) Set in Staten Island, What We Do in the Shadows follows the lives of three tr...
106 - Relativity
03 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Relativity (Series 3 Episode 2)Â Death, birth, falling in and out of love, resentment over forgotten slights and indestructible ...
105 - Ever Decreasing Circles
27 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Ever Decreasing Circles (Series 3 Episode 3)Â Martin Bryce lives in a cul de sac in a quiet suburban area. He is the chairman of...
104 - Dead Ringers
20 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Dead Ringers (Series 20 Episode 5)Dead Ringers is an impressionist show with a satirical bite.Regular victims in the original se...
103 - The Blagger's Guide
13 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Blagger's Guide (Series 2 Episode 2) David Quantick presents a light hearted guide to music, in which not every fact is a ...
102 - Dave
06 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Dave (Series 1 Episode 3) The series stars a fictionalised version of Lil Dicky, a suburban neurotic man in his late twenties ...
101 - Brass Eye
29 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Brass Eye - Decline (Series 1 Episode 6) Brass Eye is a British television comedy series which parodied the current affairs news...
100 - A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
22 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - A Bit Of Fry & Laurie (Series 1 Episode 3)A Bit of Fry & Laurie is a British sketch comedy television series written by and s...
99 - Star Stories
15 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Star Stories (Series 1 Episode 2)Star Stories is a British television comedy programme that took a satirical look at celeb...
98 - Uncle
08 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Uncle (Series 2 Episode 1)Uncle follows the darkly comedic misadventures of Andy, an irresponsible man-child forced to watch his...
97 - The Reluctant Landlord
01 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Reluctant Landlord (Series 1 Episode 1)Much to his annoyance Romesh is left running the local pub after his mischievous fath...
96 - Chewing Gum
25 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Chewing Gum (Series 1 Episode 3)In Chewing Gum, Michaela Coel plays Tracey Gordon, a religious Beyoncé-obsessed 22-year-old ...
95 - Only Fools & Horses
18 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - One Fools & Horses (Series 3 Episode 3)Created and written by John Sullivan, seven series were originally broadcast on BBC One...
94 - The Wilsons Save The World
11 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Wilsons Save The World (Series 1 Episode 4)Michael and Maxine Wilson and their daughters, Lola and Cat have resolved to live...
93 - The Goes Wrong Show
04 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Goes Wrong Show (Series 1 Episode 6)The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society undertake another (overly) ambitious endeavour, he...
92 - Frankie Howerd (Radio)
27 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Frankie Howerd (Series 2 Episode 4)Originally made for and broadcast on BBC Radio 2, there isn't a huge amount written about thi...
91 - Kate & Koji
20 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Kate & Koji (Series 1 Episode 1)Kate, the working-class owner of an old-fashioned seaside café forms an unexpected and sparky f...
90 - Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life
13 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life (Series 3 Episode 4)Radio 4 series from multi-award winning Mark Watson where he reignites hi...
89 - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
06 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em (Series 2 Episode 8)To say that Frank Spencer is a one-man walking disaster area would be somewhat of a...
88 - Meet The Richardsons
30 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Meet The Richardsons (Series 1 Episode 4)A fictional window into the funny and frustrated marriage of Jon Richardson and Lucy...
87 - Sally4Ever
23 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Sally4Ever (Series 1 Episode 1)Sally4Ever follows the life of Sally, a soon-to-be promoted marketer who, for 10 years, has lived...
86 - The Trip
16 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Trip (Series 1 Episode 1)Improvised food-based travel tours with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon. The stories are fictional but ...
85 - King Gary
09 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - King Gary (Series 1 Episode 1)'King Gary follows childhood sweethearts Gary and Terri King, a loved up husband and wife, and th...
84 - Lead Balloon
02 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Lead Balloon (Series 2 Episode 3)Rick Spleen is a successful but disillusioned stand-up comedian. He spends his days hosting cor...
83 - Old Harry's Game
24 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Old Harry's Game (Series 1 Episode 1)Life is not easy. Spending eternity in a place filled with fire and brimstone while the bot...
82 - Derry Girls
17 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Derry Girls (Series 1 Episode 1)It's 1994 - a time when nobody can seem to agree on anything, except how much they all enjoy usi...
81 - Fags, mags & bags
10 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Fags, Mags & Bags (Series 8 Episode 4)Sitcom written by and starring Sanjeev Kohli and Donald Mcleary, set in a Scots-Asian corn...
80 - Peep Show
03 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Peep Show (Series 5 Episode 4)A sitcom about Mark and Jeremy (Jez), two socially dysfunctional men. Despite having nothing in co...
79 - Flight of the Conchords
27 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Flight Of The Conchords (Series 1 Episode 8)Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand comedy duo composed of musicians Bret Mc...
78 - Olga Koch: Fight
20 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Olga Koch (Fight)In 2014, Olga Kochâs father got stopped by authorities on the Russian border, which resulted in the most surr...
77 - Pete Versus Life
13 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Pete Versus Life (Series 1 Episode 1)Rafe Spall stars as twenty-something Pete, a struggling sports writer.Although well meanin...
76 - Extras
06 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Extras (Series 2 Episode 2)Andy Millman gives up his day job to become an actor but finds that the lead roles elude him, so he i...
75 - Plebs
30 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Plebs (Series 3 Episode 8)A thoroughly modern comedy in an ancient setting.Rome is traditionally imagined as the home of emperor...
74 - Porridge
23 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Porridge (Series 2 Christmas Special)Set in Slade Prison, Porridge documents the life of Norman Stanley Fletcher, an habitual cr...
73 - The Cockfields
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Cockfields (Series 1 Episode 1)Sitcom focusing on a man who takes his girlfriend to meet his family at their home on the Isl...
72 - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
11 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue (Series 72 Episode 3)This show started out as a spin-off from the BBC radio series I'm Sorry I'll Re...
71 - The Young Offenders
02 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Young Offenders (Series 1 Episode 1)The Young Offenders follows the coming of age adventures of lovable rogues Conor and Jo...
70 - Ed Reardon's Week
25 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Ed Reardon's Week (Series 11 Episode 6)This sitcom follows the life of Ed Reardon, a curmudgeonly writer who has only managed to...
69 - Master Of None
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Master Of None (Series 1 Episode 1)Master of None follows the personal and professional life of Dev, a 30-year-old actor in New ...
68 - Man Down
11 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Man Down (Series 1 Episode 1)Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult's life. He has crushing character flaws, a uniquely dys...
67 - Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show
04 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show (Series 1 Episode 3)One-time variety star Count Arthur Strong (Steve Delaney) is all tourettic ...
66 - Upstart Crow
28 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Upstart Crow (Series 1 Episode 1)It's 1592 and Will Shakespeare is just at the beginning of his extraordinary career. The series...
65 - Hebburn
21 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Hebburn (Series 2 Episode 1)Hebburn is a warm and affectionate tale of north east family life. It tells the tale of the Pearson...
64 - Clare In The Community
14 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Clare In The Community (Series 12 Episode 2)Radio sitcom set around the professional and personal life of the social worker Clar...
63 - The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk
07 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk (Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2)Spencer Jones writes and stars in the The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk...
62 - Listen To Les
30 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Listen To Les (From 18th November 1979)If You Canât Laugh At Your Troubles Then Laugh At His, As You âŠ.. Listen To LesListen...
61 - Brian Gulliver's Travels
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Brian Gulliver's Travels (Series 2, Episode 2)AÂ BBC Radio 4Â satirical comedy series about a seasoned presenter of travel docum...
60 - W1A
16 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - W1A (Series 3, Episode 1)Ian Fletcher, the ex Head of the Olympic Deliverance Commission, takes up his next big job - the Head o...
59 - This Way Up
09 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - This Way Up (Series 1, Episode 1)This Way Up is a comedy about moving on, moving forward and trying to find happiness.Written b...
58 - The Absolutely Radio Show
02 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Absolutely Radio Show (Series 3, Episode 4)The original television series, produced by Absolutely Productions, aired on Ch...
57 - Simon Evans Goes To Market
26 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Simon Evans Goes To Market (Series 2, Episode 1)Simon Evans sets himself the challenge to make economics funny in this comprehe...
56 - Lobby Land
19 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Lobbyland (Series 2, Episode 4)Topical sitcom following life in Westminster through the eyes of Sam Peakes, a young political ed...
55 - Gameface
12 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Gameface (Series 1, Episode 1)Comedy series following Marcella as she spiritedly crashes her way through life, assisted by her d...
54 - The Pin
05 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Pin (Series 4, Episode 4)Award-winning comedy duo The Pin present their own sketch show. Strap in and delve in to a world of...
53 - Archer
29 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Archer (Series 1, Episode 1)Archer is an American adult animated sitcom created by Adam Reed for the basic cable network ...
52 - East Coast Listening Post
22 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - East Coast Listening Post (Series 2, Tattoo & Laugh)The East Coast Listening Post was created by Edinburgh Comedy Award-nominat...
51 - Cabin Pressure
15 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Cabin Pressure (Series 3 Episode 2)Set in a small airline business, Cabin Pressure is a comedy about the wing and a prayer wor...
50 - Year Of The Rabbit
08 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Year Of The Rabbit (Series 1 Episode 51)London, 1887. A lawless city. Jewel thieves and body snatchers stalk the streets and the...
49 - Don't Forget The Driver
01 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Don't Forget The Driver (Series 1 Episode 5)A dark comedy set in sunny seaside Bognor Regis. It explores what it means to live, ...
48 - THE WRONG MANs
24 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Wrong Mans (Series 1 Episode 1)From actor/writer duo James Corden and Mathew Baynton, The Wrong Mans series centres on ...
47 - Good Omens
17 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Good Omens (Series 1 Episode 1)According to The Nice And Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only complete...
46 - Benny Hill Time
10 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Benny Hill Time (From March 1964)Despite re-running this radio series, all the BBC can find to say about this show is "The maste...
45 - Back To Life
03 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Back To Life (Series 1 Episode 1)Back To Life follows Miranda 'Miri' Thomas, a woman who committed a terrible crime many years ...
44 - Mum
27 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Mum (Series 3 Episode 1)`Mum' is a critically well-received family sitcom by the hands of BAFTA Award-winning writer Stefan Gola...
43 - Ghosts
20 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Ghosts (Series 1 Episode 1)The crumbling country pile of Button Hall is home to numerous restless spirits who have died there ov...
42 - Inside No.9
13 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Inside No.9 (Series 2 Episode 2)Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith follow up the multi-award-winning Psychoville with an ...
41 - This Country
29 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - This Country (Series 1 Episode 1)This Country is a British mockumentary sitcom, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BB...
40 - Meet David Sedaris
22 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Meet David Sedaris (Series 7 Episode 2)American humourist David Sedaris reads from his extensive collection of comedy essays f...
39 - My First Planet
15 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - My First Planet (Series 1 Episode 1)My First Planet is an audience sitcom set on a newly-founded space colony.Unfortunately, th...
38 - Terry Alderton More Crazy Now
08 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Terry Alderton - More Crazy Now (Series 2 Episode 4)The prolific, uncensored and self-assured Terry Alderton embarks on a four p...
37 - You, Me & The Apocalypse
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - You, Me & The Apocalypse (Series 1 Episode 1)With their days numbered, a group of people struggle with the inevitable apocalyps...
36 - Fleabag
25 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Fleabag (Series 2 Episode 3)Hilarious and hurtful, a confession of the modern woman.Starring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Olivia Colman...
35 - Warren
18 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Warren (Series 1 Episode 1)Warren is forced to move from the south up to Preston when his partner Anne's father falls ill. He su...
34 - This Time with Alan Partridge
11 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - This Time With Alan Partridge (Series 1 Episode 1)Alan Partridge is handed a career lifeline - the chance to stand in (temporari...
33 - Friday Night Dinner
04 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Friday Night Dinner (Series 1 Episode 1)Friday Night Dinner depicts Shabbat dinner in the middle-class secular Jewish Goodm...
32 - Better Things
25 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Better Things (Series 1 Episode 1)`Better Things' is the story of Sam Fox, a single mother and working actor with no filter tryi...
31 - Lee & Dean
18 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Lee & Dean (Series 1 Episode 1)Introducing builders Lee and Dean - brothers from other mothers. Since school they've been insepa...
30 - Bleak Expectations
11 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Bleak Expectations (Series 5 Episode 2)A radio comedy which has been aptly described as "a gloriously daft Victorian romp in the...
29 - Semi Detached
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Semi Detached (Pilot)Real-time sitcom following the hapless Stuart as he struggles through the worst half an hour of his life.Wh...
28 - Party
28 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Party - Series 1 Episode 4Based on the award-winning play from the 2009 Edinburgh Festival, Party is written by Edinburgh Come...
27 - Ideal
21 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Ideal - Series 2 Episode 1Ideal is a BBC Three sitcom written by Graham Duff and centres around Moz, a small-time drug dealer...
26 - Alex Edelman's Peer Group
14 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Alex Edelman's Peer Group - Series 2 PersonalThe so-called Millennial generation has been much maligned in the press for being l...
25 - Pls Like
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Pls Like Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2A mockumentary about a cynical YouTuber.Pls Like is a weekly series follows struggling comedian...
24 - Hancock's Half Hour
31 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Christmas Club Series 6 Episode 13Broadcast between 29th September 1959 and 29th December 1959, series six comprised 14 epis...
23 - Zapped
24 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Zapped Series 2 Episode 1Brian Weaver, an online data marketing assistant (even he doesn't know what that is) finds himself abru...
22 - Geoff Norcott Right Leaning Well Meaning
18 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Geoff Norcott - Right Leaning But Well Meaning Geoff Norcott is working class, had two disabled parents, votes Tory and voted Le...
21 - The Walshes
03 Dec 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - The Walshes Episode 1The Walshes are a warm, tight-knit family from the West Dublin suburb of Strollinstown. But sometimes tight...
20 - Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
26 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Garth Marenghi's Darkplace Episode 1Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channe...
19 - Curb Your Enthusiasm
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Curb Your Enthusiasm Series 4 Episode 5Larry David stars as an extreme fictionalized version of himself.Like the real-life Dav...
18 - Josh Howie's Losing It
12 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Josh Howie's Losing It Series 2 Episode 6Episode Six: The Cake.Stand-up comic Josh and his wife comes to terms with the arrival ...
17 - All Bar Luke
05 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - All Bar Luke Series 1 Episodes 1 & 2Luke Walsall missed the education boat, never got out of Cheveley, and spends his weekends a...
16 - Dad's Army
29 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
This week we review - Dad's Army Series 1 Episode 1In World War II, with a German invasion looming, the defence of Walmington-on-Sea rests in the hand...