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[Comedy, Talk]
Sep 2004 - Feb 2026
(Returning Series)
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20 seasons
131 episodes
Specials
(2018)
Season 1
(2004)
Season 2
(2005)
Season 3
(2007)
Season 4
(2008)
Season 5
(2009)
Season 6
(2010)
Season 7
(2011)
Season 8
(2012)
Season 9
(2013)
Season 10
(2014)
Season 11
(2015)
Season 12
(2016)
Season 13
(2017)
Season 14
(2018)
Season 15
(2019)
Season 16
(2021)
Season 17
(2022)
Season 18
(2023)
Season 19
(2024)
Season 20
(2025)
Languages: English
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.
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The Soup
The Soup
With this satirical series, the E! Entertainment Network returns to a format they helped create with the popular '90s show Talk Soup. Only this time instead of just poking fun at talk shows, they're setting their sights on all things in entertainment, reality TV, pop culture, and politics.
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Killjoy Comedy
Killjoy Comedy
Get to know six comedians who are staging a stand-up laugh riot. Killjoy Comedy puts the mic in front of comics who are re-writing the old insult comedy playbook.
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Little Miss Jocelyn
Little Miss Jocelyn
Little Miss Jocelyn is a British TV sketch comedy written by and starring Jocelyn Jee Esien. The show is made up of studio sketches and hidden camera footage in which unsuspecting members of the public become part of a sketch. The series ran for 2 series from 22 August 2006 until its cancellation on 14 February 2008. 12 episodes aired whilst a 13th episode was never broadcast for unknown reasons but is featured as a bonus extra on the Series 2 DVD.
In 2007, Esien featured in Girls Aloud and Sugababes' Comic Relief video for "Walk This Way", where she puts a parking ticket on Ewen Macintosh, a reference to the character Jiffy from the show Little Miss Jocelyn.
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Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show
Kelsey Grammer Presents: The Sketch Show
Quick-fire puns, gags and sketches showcase the comedic talents of five distinctive performers.
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LOL: Chi ride è fuori
LOL: Chi ride è fuori
Is a comedy show where ten professional comedians face off for six hours in a row to keep a straight face, while they try to make their opponents laugh. The first time someone laughs the contestant gets warned, the second time, they get eliminated from the game. Whoever manages to resist without laughing all the way through the six hours wins EUR100,000 to turn over to the charity of their choice.
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Def Comedy Jam
Def Comedy Jam
Def Comedy Jam is a HBO television series produced by Russell Simmons.
The series had its original run from July 1, 1992 to January 1, 1997. The show returned on HBO's fall lineup in 2006. Def Comedy Jam helped to launch the careers of several African-American stand-up comedians.
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Fist of Fun
Fist of Fun
Fist of Fun was a British comedy television and radio programme, written by and starring Lee and Herring. A lot of the show's comic material was adapted from Lee and Herring's radio programme Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World.
Each episode of Fist of Fun featured several disparate sketches and situations. Fist of Fun began as a BBC Radio 1 series in 1993, before becoming commissioned as a television series on BBC Two in early 1995.
It was broadcast at 9pm on Tuesday nights, and was successful, but not a major ratings-winner. The second series was aired on Friday nights, and although its ratings were relatively good, the show suffered from a lack of preparation and poor promotion. The show was not given a third series, and Lee and Herring went on to write This Morning with Richard Not Judy, for BBC Two.
Many other comedians who appeared in the series went on to fame themselves, including Kevin Eldon, Peter Baynham, Ronni Ancona, Alistair McGowan, Al Murray, John Thomson, Rebecca Front, Mel Giedroyc, Sue Perkins, Ben Moor and Sally Phillips.
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The Graham Norton Show
The Graham Norton Show
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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Kings of Comedy
Kings of Comedy
Kings of Comedy was a reality television series broadcast made by Endemol for Channel 4. The show was presented by Russell Brand and narrated by Matthew Rudge. The premise was that eight comics lived in a Big Brother-style house to try to determine whether old-school comics or the newer generation are best.
The winner got the chance to make his own pilot show.
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Queens Of Comedy
Queens Of Comedy
Queens Of Comedy is a comedy talk show hosted by Shirley Souagnon, broadcast on the Enorme TV channel in 2015. Guest interviews, sketches, songs, surprises and laughs are on the program of this offbeat show with Blanche Gardin, Marie Desroles, Anne-Sophie Girard, Vérino, JoeyStarr, Lââm, Océane Rosemarie, Christine Berrou, Candiie, Solène Delannoy.
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Coming to the Stage
Coming to the Stage
Amateur comedians strut their stand-up stuff before celebrity judges in this competition.
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Gotham Comedy Live
Gotham Comedy Live
Gotham Comedy Club, a popular comedy venue in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, is the setting of an hourlong series that is shot in front of an audience at the club. Each episode features routines by several comics -- a list that has included such names as David Alan Grier, Gilbert Gottfried and Artie Lange -- in what the network says is an unedited and uncensored format. In addition to the big names of the field who take the Gotham stage, the show also features up-and-comers who want to make a name for themselves in the stand-up comedy business.
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That’s My Time with David Letterman
That’s My Time with David Letterman
David Letterman invites some of the hottest up-and-coming stand-up stars to perform a set and sit down for a chat.
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Last Comic Standing
Last Comic Standing
A nationwide talent search accepting the best professional and non-professional stand-up comedians. Once the selection process is narrowed to 10, the show covers the contestants as they live together and compete for an exclusive contract with NBC, and to be called the Last Comic Standing.
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The Mary Whitehouse Experience
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
A topical comedy show, mixing stand-up with sketches and impressions, starring David Baddiel, Robert Newman, Hugh Dennis and Steve Punt.
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Onwards and Onwards
Onwards and Onwards
It's Marcella's 30th. She's found a life coach who's prepared to help sort her life out.
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Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution
Gabriel Iglesias Presents Stand-Up Revolution
It's a comedy revolution -- unite in uproarious laughter with the "fluffy" comic in the Hawaiian shirt! Filmed at the Stand Up Live club in Phoenix, this series features Gabriel Iglesias and a bunch of his funny comedian friends performing routines, plus music from Grammy Award winners Ozomatli, the house band. Iglesias begins each episode with a set of all-new material before introducing a guest comic, some of whom include Cristela Alonzo, Tommy Chunn, Noe Gonzalez, Maz Jobrani, Rudy Moreno, Carlos Oscar, Paul Varghese and Thea Vidale. Martin Moreno is the show announcer and guest commentator.
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Lead Balloon
Lead Balloon
Lead Balloon is a British television series produced by Open Mike Productions for BBC Four. The series was created and is co-written by comedian Jack Dee and Pete Sinclair. It stars Dee as Rick Spleen, a cynical and misanthropic comedian whose life is plagued by petty annoyances, disappointments and embarrassments. Raquel Cassidy, Sean Power and Tony Gardner also star. The first series of six episodes was broadcast on BBC Four in 2006, with the first episode achieving the highest ratings for a comedy on the channel. Repeats of the series were run on BBC Two and BBC HD, bringing it to a larger audience. A second series of eight episodes aired on BBC Two in November 2007, and a third series began airing in November 2008. A fourth and final series commenced broadcast on 31 May 2011 on BBC Two and ended on 5 July.
Comparisons were made by critics to the successful American comedy Curb Your Enthusiasm, and positive comments were made about Lead Balloon's characters, particularly Magda, the Eastern European housekeeper. The first series was released on DVD in November 2007. The show's theme tune is a cover version of "One Way Road", written by Noel Gallagher and performed by Paul Weller.