What does a PM do once they're out of office? | The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

What does a PM do once they're out of office?

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

Our pick of the week's comedy on TV and radio.

Tuesday July 30

THE SOUTH BANK SHOW Inside No 9 creators Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith are the subjects of tonight's episode. Melvyn Bragg talks to them both about their early influences and inspirations, while the programme has exclusive access to Steve and Reece's writing room, as they work on scripts for the new series of Inside No. 9, and follows them on set, as they film a new episode.   Read a fuller preview of what's in the show here. Sky Arts,10pm

Wednesday July 31

JON RICHARDSON: ULTIMATE WORRIER:   Tonight's guests are Lucy Beaumont, Angela Barnes and Jamali Maddix.Dave,10pm

Friday August 2

HOLD THE SUNSET: John Cleese's old-school twilight-years sitcom returns for a second series with a storyline involving a ventriloquist act. Also starring Alison Steadman, Jason Watkins and Anne Reid. BBC One, 9pm

STILL GAME:  Ford Kiernan and Greg Hemphill's long-running sitcom comes to an end with a  poignant final episode, bidding farewell to Jack, Victor and the rest of the Craiglang gang. BBC One, 9.30pm

8 OUT OF CATS DOES COUNTDOWN: Sean Lock and Victoria Coren Mitchell take on Jon Richardson and James Acaster as Morgana Robinson joins Susie Dent in Dictionary Corner,  Channel 4, 11.05pm

PARTY'S OVER: Here's a sitcom pilot with a timely premise – about a Prime Minister booted out of  Downing Street and now has to figure out what he's going to do with the rest of his life. Miles Jupp plays the lead, Henry Tobin, who in this episode goes to Hay Literary Festival to try to create a bidding war over his memoirs. It's written by Paul Doolan and Jon Hunter, who both previously worked on Sky TV's Trollied, and the cast also includes Kiell Smith-Bynoe, Ingrid Oliver, Justin Edwards, Adam Riches, Emma Sidi and Rosie Cavaliero. Radio 4, 11.30am

THE ROAST OF BRUCE WILLIS: Martha Stewart, David Hasselhoff, Edward Norton and ex-wife Demi Moore are among those skewering the Die Hard star. Comedy Central, 10pm

Published: 28 Jul 2019

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