Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998. Several pilots first shown on Comedy Lab have gone on to spawn full series, most notably Trigger Happy TV, Fonejacker, That Peter Kay Thing, Meet the Magoons and FM. It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos. The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife, Orcadia, Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr. The 2008 series features the episodes Headwreckers, Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool, Pappy's Fun Club, School of Comedy and Slaterwood. 2010's shows are iCandy, Happy Finish, Penelope Princess of Pets, Jack Whitehall Secret Census, Filth, Moviemash and Hung Out. The 2011 lineup includes: Anna & Katy, Totally Tom and Rick and Peter.
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The League of Gentlemen is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC Two over three series from 1999 to 2002. In the fictional Northern England town of Royston Vasey—based on Bacup, Lancashire—the lives are explored of dozens of bizarre citizens, much of whom are played by three of the show's four writers—Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton, and Reece Shearsmith—who, along with Jeremy Dyson, formed the titular comedy troupe in 1995. The programme was followed by a film in 2005, and a three-part revival miniseries in December 2017 to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
This Space for Rent is a Canadian dramedy on CBC starring Dov Tiefenbach that premiered on January 4, 2006 as a 'special' CBC pilot as part of its "Comedy Week". Tiefenbach plays Lucky Carroway, a recent university graduate and writer who finds that life after university is not as perfect as it might seem. The show begins shortly after his valedictorian speech, when his world comes crashing down after his first book is rejected by his literary agent. His life becomes worse as his arch-nemesis becomes a published author who appears in "Vancouver Magazine's" top 10 writers list. He becomes a recluse who constantly wears his graduation robe and plays video games all day. However, he quickly recovers by writing a vicious 'letter to the editor' to Vancouver Magazine where he decries the selection of his arch-nemesis as a top 10 writer. This letter angers so many readers of the magazine that they offer him a job as an anonymous "Hate Male" article writer. He lives in downtown Vancouver in a flat with several friends. Emily Hampshire plays a recent law school graduate named Iona Goldenthal, a binge drinker who must deal with the chauvinistic world of law. Rainbow Sun Francks plays a recent graduate named Barnaby Sharpe who majored in economics and Russian literature. He fails his first audition and ends up working at a Jar Heads, a Starbucks parody, as a "coffee jerk". Kea Wong plays Rumour Wong, a medical intern and Lucky's girlfriend, who must deal with Lucky's mental breakdown and reclusive nature. Jason Bryden plays Elliot Hayden, a mutual gay friend who speaks Mandarin and frequents Chinatown. He teaches English to immigrant children and acts as a foil to the rest of the characters.
The Red Green Show is a Canadian television comedy that aired on various channels in Canada, with its ultimate home at CBC Television, and on Public Broadcasting Service stations in the United States, from 1991 until the series finale April 7, 2006, on CBC. The Red Green Show is essentially a cross between a sitcom and a sketch comedy series, and is a parody of home improvement, do-it-yourself, fishing, and other outdoors shows.
LOOK AROUND YOU. Look around you. Just look around you. What do you see? A tree. A weather-vane. A discarded lollipop-wrapper. A traffic shop. All of these things, and any other things you may care to mention, have one thing in common. Can you work out what it is?
Mind of Mencia was an American television comedy series on the cable channel Comedy Central. Hosted by Carlos Mencia, it aired from 2005 to 2008.
Aaron Foley, Axel Foley's blue-collar police officer son, helps take down the criminal elements of the rich and famous in Beverly Hills while trying to escape the shadow of his larger-than-life father. CBS passed on the pilot and it was eventually leaked in December 2022.
The Big Impression, known as Alistair McGowan's Big Impression for the first three series, is a British comedy sketch show. It features Alistair McGowan and Ronni Ancona impersonating personalities from entertainment and sport. Four series and a number of specials were made by Vera Productions and it was first broadcast on BBC One between 2000 and 2004. The series has won five awards, including the 2003 BAFTA comedy programme prize.
The Two Ronnies is a British sketch show which aired on BBC1 from 1971 to 1987. It featured the double act of Ronnie Barker and Ronnie Corbett, the "Two Ronnies" of the title.
Tracey Takes On... is a sketch comedy series starring actress Tracey Ullman. The show ran for four seasons on HBO and was commissioned after the success of the comedy special Tracey Ullman Takes on New York (1993). Each episode focuses on a specific subject which Ullman and her cast of characters take on through a series of sketches and monologues.
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The Fast Show is a multi BAFTA award winning sketch comedy show written and produced by Paul Whitehouse and Charlie Higson.
Second City Television is a Canadian television sketch comedy show offshoot from Toronto's Second City troupe that ran between 1976 and 1984.
Dolly is a television variety show that ran on ABC during the 1987-1988 season featuring Dolly Parton.
Absolutely is a popular UK television comedy sketch show shown on Channel 4 between 1989 and 1993. The cast and crew were mainly Scottish; the principal writers and performers were Moray Hunter, Jack Docherty, Peter Baikie, Gordon Kennedy, Morwenna Banks and John Sparkes. It was directed by Phil Chilvers, Alan Nixon, Alistair Clark, and Graham C Williams. The show's producers were Alan Nixon, and David Tyler
The Armando Iannucci Shows is a series of eight programmes focused on specific themes relating to human nature and existentialism, around which Iannucci would weave a series of surreal sketches and monologues. Recurring themes in the episodes are the superficiality of modern culture, our problems communicating with each other, the mundane nature of working life and feelings of personal inadequacy and social awkwardness. Several characters also make repeat appearances in the shows, including the East End thug, who solves every problem with threats of violence; Hugh, an old man who delivers surreal monologues about what things were like in the old days; and Iannucci's barber, who is full of nonsensical anecdotes.
A groundbreaking, splendidly silly, surreal sketch comedy series written by and starring The Goodies' Tim Brooke-Taylor, Monty Python's Graham Chapman and John Cleese, and comedy legend Marty Feldman.
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How I Met Your Dad is a television pilot of a TV series to serve as a spin-off of How I Met Your Mother, created by original series creators Carter Bays and Craig Thomas, with Emily Spivey. This series was expected to debut 2014, but was shelved indefinitely. 20th Television opted not to order How I Met Your Dad to series. The plot focuses on Sally on the journey of how she met her daughter's father. She lives in New York with her friends, is getting divorced from her first husband, and has no idea what she is doing with her life.
The Amanda Show is an American live action sketch comedy and variety show that aired on Nickelodeon from October 16, 1999 to September 21, 2002. It starred Amanda Bynes, Drake Bell, and Nancy Sullivan, along with several performing artists who came and left at different points, such as John Kassir, Raquel Lee, and Josh Peck. The show was a spin-off from All That, in which Bynes had co-starred for several years. The show was unexpectedly cancelled at the end of 2002, according to creator Dan Schneider's blog. Writers for the show included John Hoberg, Steven Molaro, Andrew Hill Newman, and Dan Schneider. Two years after the end of The Amanda Show, Dan Schneider created a new series, called Drake & Josh, featuring Drake Bell, Josh Peck and Nancy Sullivan.
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11 episodes • 1998
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Services | Nov 11, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Turning Tricks | Nov 18, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Danny Does Tricks | Nov 18, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Trigger Happy TV | Nov 25, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Home & Away | Nov 25, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Tommy Tiernan is aLive! | Dec 2, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Alan Tyler's Big Night In | Dec 9, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Vinyl Tap | Dec 16, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Things to Do in Hoxton When You're Dead | Dec 23, 1998 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Twiggy No-Branch | Jan 13, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Lenny Beige | Jan 20, 1999 | 0.0 |
11 episodes • 1999
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Los Dos Bros | Aug 31, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 2 | All Aboard the Cat Bus | Sep 1, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Shadows of Reflections | Sep 1, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Beyond a Joke | Sep 2, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Vent | Sep 7, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Golden Years | Sep 8, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Entertainer | Sep 9, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Whatever | Sep 14, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Heart and Sole | Sep 15, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Pornorama | Sep 16, 1999 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Roy Dance Is Dead | Sep 16, 1999 | 0.0 |
12 episodes • 2000
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3anusPIE | Oct 10, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Popcultomania | Oct 10, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Earl | Oct 11, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Shut Up and Dance | Oct 17, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 5 | House of Rock Awards | Oct 17, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 6 | The Scunthorpe Ball Run | Oct 24, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 7 | The Cannonball Run | Oct 24, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Global Pillage | Oct 31, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Anderson | Nov 7, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 10 | Critical Mass | Nov 14, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 11 | Rolf's Animal Hairdressers | Nov 21, 2000 | 0.0 |
| 12 | Meat | Nov 21, 2000 | 0.0 |
10 episodes • 2001
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Richard Taylor Interviews | Nov 1, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Orcadia | Nov 8, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Shut Up and Dance | Nov 15, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Origen's Wake | Nov 15, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Jimmy Carr's World of ... Corporate Videos | Nov 22, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Model, Actress, Whatever | Nov 29, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Knife & Wife | Dec 6, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Turn the World Down | Dec 13, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 9 | Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer | Dec 20, 2001 | 0.0 |
| 10 | The Pooters | TBA | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2002
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Shoreditch Tw*t | Oct 31, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Matthew & Tone: Tales of Friendship & Innocence | Nov 7, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Captain V | Nov 14, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Last Chancers | Nov 21, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 5 | The Best of Britain | Nov 28, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Meet the Magoons | Dec 5, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Pam Ann's Mile-High Club | Dec 12, 2002 | 0.0 |
| 8 | My Mouth Shall Speak the Praise of Thy Lord | Jan 13, 2003 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 2004
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12:21 | Feb 11, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Clitheroe | Feb 11, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 3 | The Russell Brand | Feb 17, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Private Lives | Feb 17, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Puppet Access TV | Feb 17, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Chancers | Feb 24, 2004 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Tracy and I | Feb 24, 2004 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2005
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modern Toss | May 10, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Speeding | May 11, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Glenn Wool: What's the Story? | May 12, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Whatever | May 13, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Blackout | May 16, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 6 | I'm Spazticus | May 17, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Pritch and Panch: The Cinderfella Experience | May 18, 2005 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Tatoo | May 19, 2005 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2006
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fonejacker | May 9, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Bad Crowd | May 9, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Transmission Impossible | May 10, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 4 | FM | May 10, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Dynamo's Estate of Mind | May 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Dog Almighty | May 11, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Alex Zane's House of Games | May 12, 2006 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Slap | May 12, 2006 | 0.0 |
8 episodes • 2007
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool | Oct 22, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Documental | Oct 23, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Ain't It Funny Being Coloured | Oct 24, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Smallest Game in Town | Oct 25, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Doug Stanhope, Go Home | Oct 26, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Blowout | Oct 27, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 7 | Uncle Rubbish | Oct 28, 2007 | 0.0 |
| 8 | Swizzcall | Oct 29, 2007 | 0.0 |
6 episodes • 2008
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | School of Comedy | Aug 21, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Slaterwood | Aug 22, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Headwreckers | Aug 25, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Mr and Mrs Fandango | Aug 26, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 5 | Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits | Aug 28, 2008 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Pappy's Fun Club | Aug 28, 2008 | 0.0 |
7 episodes • 2010
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | iCandy | Apr 19, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Happy Finish | Apr 19, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Penelope, Princess Of Pets | TBA | 0.0 |
| 4 | The Secret Census | TBA | 0.0 |
| 5 | Filth | Apr 22, 2010 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Moviemash | TBA | 0.0 |
| 7 | Hung Out | TBA | 0.0 |
5 episodes • 2011
| # | Episode | Air Date | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Anna & Katy | Sep 2, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 2 | Totally Tom | Sep 9, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 3 | Rick and Peter | Sep 16, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 4 | Mr. & Mrs. Hotty Hott Hot Show | Nov 18, 2011 | 0.0 |
| 6 | Kabadasses | Nov 13, 2011 | 0.0 |