The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

Monday May 22

DARA O BRIAIN’S GO 8 BIT: Rob Beckett and Zoe Lyons bash their controllers as the guests on this week’s episode of the gaming challenge show. Dave, 10pm

Tuesday May 23

VEEP: The comedy gets extra points for topicality this week as Julia Louis-Dreyfus’s former president Selina Meyer visits Qatar - just as Donald Trump also visits the Middle East. Which will be more chaotic is likely to be too close to call. Sky Atlantic, 10pm

Wednesday May 24

WHITE GOLD: It’s the Essex equivalent of The Wolf Of Wall Street. Brash young men living it large in a new age of Thatcherism, earning well from the hard sell of overpriced double-glazing. With Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick appearing alongside two of the stars of The Inbetweeners – Joe Thomas and James Buckley – and a script from one of its creators, Damon Beesley, the portents are good. BBC Two, 10pm. Read more about the show here.

ALEX EDELMAN’S PEER GROUP: American comic Alex Edelman is back on Radio 4 to stand-up for the millennial generation he - if few Radio 4 listeners - are part of. The stand-up argues that those born in the 1980s and early 1990s are wrongly maligned for being lazy, entitled, vain, venal, self-involved, easily offended little emperors - sh heere seeks to redress the balance. 11pm

Thursday May 25

WHERE DID IT ALL GO WRONG: The second series in which Simon Munnery debunks iconic characters, starting with Sherlock Holmes, is getting a repeat airing on Radio 4 Extra having first been heard on Radio 4 in 2005. 10.45pm

Friday May 25

ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS: THE MOVIE: Last year’s fun-if-frothy big-screen adventure for Patsy and Edina comes to Sky Cinema from today. Here is our review.

Published: 21 May 2017