The week's best comedy on TV, radio and streaming

Our pick of the comedy on TV, radio and streaming this week…:

Sunday April 7

WORLD'S MOST DANGEROUS ROADS: In the last episodes of the current series, Olga Koch and Thanyia Moore head to Bulgaria to tackle perilous mountain roads. Dave, 8pm

Monday April 8

CURB YOUR ENTHUSIASM: It's the end of an era as Larry David's masterpiece ends after 12 seasons, with an hour-long finale titled No Lesson Learned, a nod to the maxim for the characters on Seinfeld. Sky Comedy, 9pm

MEET THE RICHARDSONS: A new ten-part series of the faux reality show starts with Lucy Beaumont's career turbocharged by her Bafta nomination, appearing on Taskmaster, Bake Off, and Celebrity Chinese Whispers. Meanwhile, Jon Richardson is plotting his escape from telly, with one last, lucrative job hosting a new daytime quiz show. Guest stars in this run include include Nigel Havers, Amanda Abbington, Kimberly Wyatt, Tim Lovejoy and Lee Mack. The couple talk about the show here Dave, 9pm

THE GREAT CELEBRITY BAKE OFF FOR STAND UP TO CANCER: Comic Fern Brady takes on presenters Greg James and Dermot O'Leary and Spice Girl with challenges including the Showstopper, where they create their celebrity doppelganger in biscuit form. Channel 4, 7.40pm

DINNERLADIES: A repeat airing of Victoria Wood’s sitcom about the day-to-day work lives of the kitchen staff in a factory canteen from the very start, with episodes stripped at the same time nightly. Gold, 7pm

DOCUMENTARY NOW! ITVX has agreed a deal with America's AMC Stories to bring a host of new shows to the platform, including all four series of Fred Armisen and Bill Hader's cult comedy series, in which Helen Mirren introduces an eclectic range of documentary parodies. Other writers include ohn Mulaney and Seth Meyers, while guest stars include Cate Blanchett, Owen Wilson and Jamie Demetriou. The AMC deal also includes all eight series of Armisen and Carrie Brownstein's alt sketch show Portlandia, Amy Huberman' breakup comedy Finding Joy, and Brockmire, a sitcom starring The Simpsons' Hank Azaria as a famed major league baseball announcer trying to rebuild his life a decade after a very public breakdown. Happy bingeing!

Tuesday April 9

MEL GIEDROYC - UNFORGIVABLE: This week Mel and sidekick Lou Sanders are joined by Shirley Ballas, who divulges her revenge on a cheating husband, Ross Kemp, who spills all on a prison-based prank, and Rosie Jones. Dave, 10pm

Thursday April 11

BABY REINDEER: The TV adaptation of comic Richard Gadd's autobiographical live show about being the target of a stalker comes to Netflix today. Gadd plays a struggling comedian who shows an act of kindness to a vulnerable woman (Jessica Gunning ), it sparks a suffocating obsession which threatens to wreck both their lives.

GREAT LIVES: A real curio this, a 2002 Radio 4 show in which bigoted comedian Bernard Manning nominated Mother Teresa of Calcutta to enter the pantheon of Great Lives. The BBC says: 'His nomination may have come as a surprise to some but, having partially Irish roots, he was brought up as he described it, "a strict Catholic".' In this programme he announces: 'If she becomes a saint I shall pray for her every night, and pray to her.' Manning died in 2007 so didn’t live to witness Mother Teresa’s canonisation in 2016. Radio 4 Extra, 10am

Friday April 12

TRAVEL MAN: 48 HOURS IN LANZAROTE:. For the final trip of the series, Joe Lycett heads to Lanzarote with Jessica Fostekew, hiring a trike to discover the volcanic landscape, among other adventures.  Channel 4, 8.30pm

LATE NIGHT LYCETT: And as Travel Man ends, the comic's variety series is back from the canals of Birmingham.  Channel 4, 10pm

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Guest hosted by Professor Hannah Fry. BBC One, 9pm

RAMI YOUSSEF: A new stand-up special from Golden Globe-winning Egyptian-American comedian Ramy Youssef – as seen in Poor Things – discusses the likes of the 2024 US presidential election, the importance of prayer, and a childhood book report that changed the course of his life. Sky Comedy, 10pm

Saturday April 13

BUDGIE: Archive channel Talking Pictures TV starts a repeat run of this 1970s comedy-drama starring pop singer Adam Fatih as a petty crook involved in a string of ghare-brained scheme to make money. It was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall, who also collaborated on Billy Liar. The series co-stars Iain Cuthbertson as Charlie Endell, a suave and Machiavellian Glaswegian gangster based in London, who employed Budgie in his dodgy schemes. Talking Pictures TV, 8pm

THE JONATHAN ROSS SHOW: Frank Skinner is among the guests. ITV1, 10.05pm

Published: 7 Apr 2024