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

The week’s best comedy on TV and radio.

Sunday December 13

DES O’CONNOR: THE ULTIMATE ENTERTAINER: Tribute to the much-loved star. ITV, 9pm

Monday December 14

RICHARD OSMAN’S HOUSE OF GAMES: Comedians Lloyd Griffith and Josie Long join ex-athletes Steve Cram andJeanette Kwakye in this week’s run. BBC Two, 6pmWednesday December 16

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT MOVIES CHRISTMAS SPECIAL: Martin Sheen, Jennifer Saunders and Tom Allen are joined by Rafe Spall, Guz Khan and Mo Gilligan in Alan Carr’s movie quiz. Sky One, 9pm. Tomorrow the same channel has Christmas specials of A League Of Their Own and The Russell Howard Hour, too.

Thursday December 17

TASKMASTER: Who out of Daisy May Cooper, Johnny Vegas, Katherine Parkinson, Mawaan Rizwan and Richard Herring will be crowned the tenth Taskmaster champion and secure the golden trophy in the shape of Greg Davies' head? We’ll find out in the series finale tonight. Channel 4, 10pm

Friday December 18

MICKY FLANAGAN: PEEPING BEHIND THE CURTAIN: A backstage look at Micky Flanagan’s An Another Fing show that became the world’s biggest comedy tour. The documentary promises an ‘intimate and honest’ look at how the comic went from performing in East End pubs to creating a stadium tour that played to more people than Beyoncé and Take That. Sky One, 9pm

ARE YOU BEING SERVED?: The 1979 Christmas special in which the staff of Grace Brothers stage a life-size Punch and Judy show to entertain a group of their colleagues' children. Gold, 1.55pm

Saturday December 19

COMEDY GREATS: Barry Cryer plunders the archives for three hours of Christmas specials from Radio Active, The Masterson Inheritance, Hinge and Bracket, Round The Horne, Ronnie Barker and The Goon Show. Radio 4 Extra, 9am.

Published: 13 Dec 2020