The comedy week ahead

The comedy week ahead...

Monday April 7

LIVE IN LONDON: A solid bill at the Comedy Store tonight raises funds for homeless charity Crisis. With Paul Sinha, Rob Deering and more. 8pm.

Tuesday April 8

LIVE IN LONDON: The best in sketch comedy is on offer at the Gits and Shiggles night in the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club, chaotically compered by Brian Gittins. The bill includes Cariad Lloyd, Jamie Demetriou, Cardinal Burns and more... 9.30pm

LIVE IN LONDON: Vivian Stanshall’s life is celebrated with a gig at the Bloomsbury Theatre, including a complete performance of his meisterwerk Sir Henry at Rawlinson End as well as performances of his most celebrated songs by the likes of Neil Innes, Rick Wakeman and Mr B The Gentleman Rhymer. 8pm.

Wednesday April 9

LIVE IN GLASGOW: Frankie Boyle and Steven Dick present a readthrough of their new Radio 4 series Blocked at the Stand. Good luck getting tickets, though, it’s long sold out with only a few on-the-door returns expected. 6.45pm and 9.20pm.

LIVE IN LONDON: In October, Rhys Darby, Stewart Francis, Craig Campbell, Glenn Wool, Simon Evans and Terry Alderton will be performing a gig ay Mount Everest Base Camp, 5,365m above sea level. Slightly easier to get to is this fundraiser for the endeavour, featuring Francis, Evans and Alderton alongside Matt Richardson, Holly Walsh and Joe Wilkinson. Bloomsbury Theatre, 7.30pm

Thursday April 10

LIVE IN LONDON: The Udderbelly’s 2014 season gets under way with an understandably top-notch gala show featuring Andrew Maxwell, Brendon Burns, Phil Nichol, Tony Law, Vikki Stone, Showstoppers and Morgan and West. 9pm.

Friday April 11

TV: Tina Fey goes Inside The Actors Studio to talk about her career, from improv groups via Saturday Night Live to 30 Rock and her film screenwriting debut, Mean Girls. Sky Arts 1, 7.30pm

Saturday April 12

TV: Morecambe & Wise Live! – a rarely seen  stage performance recorded at Fairfield Halls, Croydon, in 1973 – follows a three-hour countdown of Britain's Best-Loved Double Acts on Channel 5. And afterwards there’s Eric Sykes’s claassic The Plank and Frankie Howerd in Up The Chastity Belt.

RADIO: Alan Ayckbourn, celebrates his 75th birthday today, so Radio 4 Extra is presenting his first major success, the dark comedy Relatively Speaking, which premiered in Scarborough in 1965. So you won’t get up at to hear it’s first airing, but that’s what iPlayer was invented for... Radio 4 Extra, 6am

LIVE IN DUBLIN: High-energy sketch troupe Foil, Arms and Hog celebrate their sixth birthday by playing Vicar Street for the first time with a mix of their best old sketches and some new for 2014.

Published: 6 Apr 2014