Susan Calman's sitcom and the rest of the comedy week ahead

The comedy week ahead...

Sunday August 16

LIVE IN EDINBURGH: The Waverley Care Comedy Gala, staged by top agency Off The Kerb, takes place at the Edinburgh Playhouse today.Hosts Adam Hills and Marcus Brigstocke will introduce Rob Beckett, Phill Jupitus, Nathan Caton, Angela Barnes, Charlie Baker, Andrew Ryan, Joel Dommett, Ivo Graham,and Phil Jerrod. Tickets.

TV: Amy Schumer’s first one-hour stand-up special, Mostly Sex Stuff, gets an airing on Comedy Central at 10pm. The raunchy show was first made in 2013.

Monday August 17

LIVE IN LONDON: American comic Iliza Shlesinger makes her UK debut with Freezing Hot, a version of her Netflix stand-up special of the same name, which will run at the Soho Theatre from tonight until August 31.

Wednesday August 19

TV: It’s the first episode of Top Coppers, the new action- and gag-packed Naked Gun-style cop-show comedy starring Steen Raskopoulos and John Kearns as detectives taking on the criminal gangs. In this opener, their nemesis Cockney crime boss Harry McCrane who has taken over an ice cream factory as a guise for selling drugs. Guest starring Paul Ritter from Friday Night Dinner and Rich Fulcher, from his own planet…BBC Three, 10pm

LIVE IN EDINBURGH: It’s the latest in the series of Loving Linda Smith concerts in aid of Target Ovarian Cancer, the disease that claimed her. Jo Brand, Phill Jupitus, Mark Thomas, Susan Calman, Bridget Christie and Arthur Smith are among those taking part. The Assembly Rooms, 21:15

Friday August 21

FILM: Bad Education hopes to follow in the footsteps of the Inbetweeners with a successful transfer to the big screen. True to formula the movie takes the action on a summer holiday, as Jack Whitehall’s uninspiring teacher, Alfie Wickers, takes his class to Cornwall:

RADIO: Susan Calman’s first sitcom, Sisters, launches on Radio 4, in which she also stars alongside Ashley Jensen as her chalk-and-cheese sibling; and Nick Helm as their neighbour. In this series opener, the sisters set themselves the challenge of going without their electronic devices for 24 hours. Radio 4, 11.30am

LIVE IN LONDON: Beyonce-lovin’ Luisa Omielan brings her honest and inspirational high-energy brand of stand-up to Comedy Carnival in Piccadilly Circus’s Bar Rumba tonight.

Saturday August 22:

RADIO: To mark the 100th anniversary of the birth of Round The Horne star Hugh Paddick, Radio 4 Extra reruns the 1998 documentary The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy, about the enduring characters he and Kenneth Williams invented. Both feature in the show alongside their costars Betty Marsden and Kenneth Horne, and writer Barry Took. Host Maureen Lipman also explains some of the mysteries of polari, the gay patios the pair conversed in. Bona! Radio 4 Extra, 12pm

RADIO: Fred MacAulay introduces more comics from the Edinburgh Fringe in Comedy Club: 4 Extra Stands Up At The Fringe. Radio 4 Extra, 10pm

Published: 16 Aug 2015