The week's comedy on demand

The week's best comedy on demand.

Man Like Mobeen

Guz Khan's underrated sitcom returned to BBC Three for a third series this week, with his title character continuing to try his best to break away from the gangster lifestyle for the sake of his family, but always finding himself drawn back in. As well as the star there are great performances from comics Mark Silcox as Uncle Shady and Tez Ilyas as Eight. Watch here

Off Menu

James Acaster and Ed Gamble have returned for a third course of their culinary-based podcast, in which guests are invited to choose their favourite starter, main course, side dish, dessert and drink at the perfect fantasy restaurant.  The first episode of the new series features Anthony Head, Giles from Buffy The Vampire Slayer.  This, and the 42 previous episodes, are available here

Bojack Horseman

This brilliant animated sitcom – successfully combining realistic stories of mental health, redemption and sexuality with as many dumb animal puns as you could hope for – finally comes to a close after six seasons. Can Will Arnett's washed-up sitcom star find happiness, or will the many, many mistakes of his past catch up with him? If you've been watching so far, you'll have no hesitation in grabbing the last few episodes from Watch on Netflix.

The Horne Section Podcast

Alex Horne and his band return for another run of their raucous and ridiculous fortnightly podcasts after a three-month break, with the aforementioned Ed Gamble the guest in this week's episode. Listen here,

Booksmart

The feature directorial debut from Olivia Wilde – best known as Remy, aka Thirteen, in House – is an acclaimed coming-of-age comedy starring Beanie Feldstein and Kaitlyn Dever as two high school girls who set out to finally break the rules and party on their last day of class. Jessica Williams, Will Forte, Lisa Kudrow, and Jason Sudeikis also star.

The film had its world premiere at South by Southwest last year and has been widely acclaimed by critics. It's just landed on Amazon Prime.

The Topical

The Onion has launched a new podcast. The Topical is a daily spoof news broadcast hosted by Leslie Price who 'barely scratches the surface of all the day's top news stories'. The company makes no lesser boast of the show that it 'had rendered the human eyeball completely obsolete'. The first couple of episodes have tackled Harvey Weinstein and the Iowa caucuses. It's available on Apple podcasts here.

Frisky Dingo

Just arrived on All4 via its tie-up with Adult Swim, this new animated comedy comes from Archer creator Adam Reed. It's about a philandering billionaire playboy who moonlights as the superhero, Awesome X, as he faces against his greatest adversary, Killface, whose first evil plan is to destroy Earth by smashing it into the Sun using a massive jet engine called the Annihilatrix...

Published: 1 Feb 2020