The week's comedy on demand

This week's best comedy shows on demand.

Brown

In this tense, dark comedy short, alternative comedian Kurt Braunohler stars as a cop dealing with a mysterious, and very worrying, medical issue, The ten-minute film, written and directed by Andy DeYoung, has been released on the Jash comedy channel:

Taskmaster

Series five of Taskmaster starts on Dave on Wednesday, but the first episode has already gone up online.

Aisling Bea, Bob Mortimer, Mark Watson, Nish Kumar and Sally Phillips are given silly things to do by Taskmaster Greg Davies and sidekick Alex Horne, the series creator.

Challenges over the eight-part series include painting a rainbow in total darkness, creating a watercooler moment using a watercooler and making Marmite.

Watch it here

Marc Maron: Too Real

This week's Netflix stand-up special comes from podcast king, Marc Maron – a battle-scarred stand-up comedian who promises a 'storm of ideas about meditation, mortality, documentary films and our weird modern world'.

Watch here

James Mullinger: Anything Is Possible

Going nowhere fast on the London comedy circuit, James Mullinger found his niche when he moved to the small city of St John's on the east coast of Canada in 2004. There he became a local hero, able to sell out the 5,000-seat Harbour Station Arena, beating Jerry Seinfeld's sales record for the venue.

Anything Is Possible – available to watch now on Amazon Prime – is the special he filmed there, musing on parenting, homemade wine, local newspapers and Facebook

Mullinger's journey across the Atlantic was fictionalised for last year's movie, The Comedian's Guide to Survival, starring James Buckley.

Here's a trailer for the stand-up special:

BBC New Comedy Award final

It's your last chance to watch this year's event, which was broadcast live on Radio 4 from the Edinburgh Fringe last month and is available to watch on demand until next weekend.

Mark Watson hosts and the acts are Andy Field, Jacob Hawley, Morgan Rees, Heidi Regan, Sikisa and Aaron Simmonds.

Watch it here.

Published: 9 Sep 2017