The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio

The best of the week's comedy on TV and radio.

Sunday February 2

SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE: The American comedy institution arrives on UK television for the first time in 14 years, airing 24 hours after its US broadcast. It’s had some amazing guest hosts including Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Lopez and Phoebe Waller-Bridge in the last couple of months, but tonight’s is hardly a big draw for UK viewers: American football player JJ Watt. Here's his monologue:Sky Comedy, 9pm

SIR David Jason AT 80: A LOVELY JUBBLY CELEBRATION: To mark the actor’s birthday today, his Still Open All Hours co-star Johnny Vegas takes a trip through the BBC archive with interviews, insight and Only Fools And Horses rarities. 5.10pm

Monday February 3

INSIDE NO 9: Talk about long-awaited! The fifth series of Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton’s anthology series was ready last spring, but the BBC has held on to it until now. The opening episode is set in a referees’ dressing room, before during and after a crunch league game and co-stars Ralf Little and David Morrissey. Click here to read what the creators had to say about the new series, BBC Two, 10pm

Tuesday February 4

8 OUT OF 10 CATS: Tonight’s guests are comics Joel Dommett, Rosie Jones and Catherine Bohart – plus basketball player Ovie Soko. E4,

Wednesday February 5

HOME: Rufus Jones’s comedy series about Syrian asylum seeker Sami (Youssef Kerkour) returns with a second series. It's now been eight months since Sami arrived in Britain, and he is still playing the waiting game for the right to remain in the UK. While everything is in limbo, all Sami can do is make himself useful to his hosts: Katy (Rebekah Staton), Peter (Jones) and John (Oaklee Pendergast) in Dorking. Channel 4, 10pm.

HYPOTHETICAL: Josh Widdicombe and James Acaster return for a second series of the show which asks guests how they would cope with absurd hypothetical situations. Tonight Rob Beckett, Sara Barron, Maisie Adam and Jonathan Ross are subject to the thought experiments. Dave, 10pm.

THE RIGHTEOUS GEMSTONES: Eastbound & Down’s Danny McBride writes and stars in this story of a wealthy televangelist family with a long tradition of deviance, greed and charitable work that co-stars John Goodman and Adam Devine. Sky Comedy, 9pm.

FINDING JOY:Amy Huberman’s quirky, upbeat comedy about a woman facing up to life after break-up gets an airing on W, a couple of years after its original airing in Ireland. The series also stars Laura Whitmore, Aisling Bea, Lochlann O'Mearáin and David O’Doherty. W, 10pm

ALEX EDELMAN’S PEER GROUP: The US comedian discusses the concept of being cool with help from his peer group at the University of West London in this first of a new four-part series. Radio 4, 6.30pm

Thursday February 6

HERE’S THE THING - Jerry Seinfeld: Host Alec Baldwin meets the comedian in the first of a new series of in-depth interviews, originally recorded at WYNC Radio in New York in 2014. Other guests in the series include David Letterman, Michael Douglas, Amy Schumer and Lena Dunham. Radio 4 Extra, 11am

Friday February 7

FRANKIE BOYLE’S TOUR OF SCOTLAND: Yes, Billy Connolly did it first. But now it’s Frankie Boyle’s turn to perform a number of stand-up shows with a film crew in tow to capture his travels between gigs. In this episode he goes from Aberdeen to Oban, meeting a hermit, joining a commune and going underneath a mountain. BBC Two, 10pm

THE BIG NARSTIE SHOW: The grime star and co-host Mo Gilligan return with a third series of their anarchic late-night show. Channel 4, 11.05pm

Published: 2 Feb 2020