Bristol Comedy Festival and the rest of the comedy week ahead

What's on in comedy this week.

Sunday June 26

TV: We want the finest comedy movies available to humanity! Withnail & I gets its first airing on Gold, charting - as well you should well know - the downs and further downs of a pair of unemployed 1960s actors. 11pm.

LIVE IN LONDON: Kensington's swanky Roof Gardens hosts its own comedy festival, an all-dayer (well, from 3pm to 9pm) featuring Katy Brand, ,Sam Simmons, Sean McLoughlin, Zoe Lyons and more.

Monday June 27

RADIO: I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue returns for its - gulp - 65th serie with regulars Barry Cryer, Jeremy Hardy and Tim Brooke-Taylor joined by Rory Bremner. Jack Dee is of course the reluctant chairman.

Tuesday June 28

LIVE IN BRISTOL: The Comedy Garden takes over Queens Square right through until Sunday. Tonight's opener is sold out - little surprise since the bill comprises Stewart Lee, Tony Law, James Acaster and Josie Long. But there are plenty of other treats over the rest of the week, including Katherine Ryan, Rob Delaney, Milton Jones and Bridget Christie to name but four. Basically, you can't go far wrong with any of the festival's bills.

LIVE IN LONDON: Sally Phillips and Lily Bevan present a live version of their Radio 4 comic monologue series Talking To Strangers at the Soho Theatre, ahead of a short run at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Wednesday June 29

LIVE IN LONDON: Edinburgh favourites The Beta Males are quitting live comedy - as they explained here - and are bowing out with a greatest hits package at the Udderbelly.

LIVE IN LONDON: The Bike Project takes second-hand bicycles, fixes them up and gives them to refugees… and tonight at The Crypt on the Green in Clerkenwell comics including Nish Kumar of Newsjack, Rachel Parris of Austentatous and Grainne Maguire of Question Time that one time, perform at a varied fundraiser for its work.

LIVE IN LONDON: Knock2Bag - crazy name, crazy night - returns to the Moth Club in Hackney with Doc Brown, co-star of the forthcoming David Brent movie, Edinburgh comedy award-winning absurdist Sam Simmons and soon-to-be star of his own BBC Three sitcom Dane Baptiste, among others.

LIVE IN SWANSEA: Excitable Adam Hess, delightful oddball Tony Law and steely-edged charmer Laura Lexx make for a strong line-up at the Grand Theatre tonight.

Thursday June 30

RADIO: Tim Vine's Chat Show, in which the pun-slinger interviews members of his audience, starts a four-part run. Radio 4, 6.30pm

RADIO: The topical Now Show gets non-topical with an edition based on the events of 100 years ago in The Somme: from wartime humour and art to politics and propaganda. Radio 4, 11pm

LIVE IN DUNFERMERLINE: The Boy With Tape On His Face brings the inventive childlike mime that so wowed America's Got Talent judges to the Carneige Hall tonight, as part of a club night that also features pun- and cartoon-loving Bec Hill and gag merchant Ray Bradshaw. Then the whole line-up then hits the road to play the Drygate Brewery in Glasgow tomorrow and the Festival Theatre in Edinburgh on Saturday..

Saturday July 2

LIVE IN DARLINGTON: A sporadic comedy festival (14 events spread thinly across 25 days) kicks off with the regular Hilarity Bites night at the Forum Music Centre. Closing is Mark Nelson, named headliner of the year in the 2016 Scottish Comedy Awards, while the beatboxing machinations of Vince Atta ensure entertaining support.

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Published: 26 Jun 2016