Big Mood returns

The week's best comedy on TV and radio

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

Sunday April 12

ZERO STARS: Roisin Conaty and Sara Pascoe head to Istanbul in this new travelogue with a twist, as they will be visiting only places with the funniest and worst reviews. In the opener, they try leech therapy and shaving a grown man… TLC, 9pm

JACK TUCKER: COMEDY SPECIAL STANDUP HOUR: The latest show from Stamptown founder Zach Zucker hits YouTube, having previously enjoyed a seven-week run at New York's SoHo Playhouse. This version was filmed at the Bell House in Brooklyn and features guest appearances from Neil Patrick Harris, and Dyson Knight of the Baha Men. It comes before the anarchic Stamptown cabaret show he hosts in the same guise as a desperate-to-make-it comedian records a Netflix special next month.

ASHLEY FRIEZE IS WASTING HIS TIME: The comic's third album of comic songs is described as a 'cheerfully misanthropic middle-aged rage against other people's shit, interspersed with silly jokes'. It's available here.

Monday April 13

UNSPEAKABLE: Phil Wang and Susie Dent challenge guests to invent new words. This week's guests are Desiree Burch, Max Fosh and Rebecca Front. BBC Radio 4, 6:30pm.

Tuesday April 14

NATURE TABLE: Sue Perkins is joined by comedian Sara Pascoe, fly expert Dr. Erica McAlister and fungus specialist Lee Davies for a look at miraculous marine midges and church-eating fungus. BBC Radio 4, 6:30pm.

Wednesday April 15

MARIA SHEHATA IS WISDOMLESS: A stand-up show in which Maria Shehata unpacks her romantic gamble of moving 6,000 miles from LA to London for love, echoing her Coptic Egyptian parents' own leap of faith from Cairo to Ohio. BBC Radio 4, 6:30pm.

Thursday April 16

TASKMASTER: Armando Iannucci adopts a new persona before performing a daring stunt, Kumail Nanjiani grapples with skittles while wearing oven gloves, Joanna Page attempts a tricky skill she hasn't tried since she was 12, Joel Dommett twirls a pretty umbrella and someone shouts about scrambled eggs to Amy Gledhill. Channel 4, 9pm.

BIG MOOD: After a year apart, Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West's characters Maggie and Eddie are reunited as bridesmaids at a friend's wedding in the first of two episodes. Read an interview with creator Camilla Whitehill about writing jokes around mental illness and more here. Channel 4, 10pm.

Friday April 17

THE NEWS QUIZ: Andy Zaltzman returns to host the long-running topical panel show. BBC Radio 4, 6:30pm.

HAVE I GOT NEWS FOR YOU: Gabby Logan hosts, with team captains Ian Hislop and Paul Merton joined by Miles Jupp and Michelle Wolf. BBC One, 9pm.

THE ASSEMBLY: Lenny Henry is the guest in this new episode, being quizzed by a group of neurodivergent and learning disabled interviewers. ITV1, 10:05pm.

PAUL SMITH: PABLO LIVE: The Liverpudlian stand-up's special –as recorded at Dublin's 3Olympia Theatre – is hitting more than 350 cinemas from today. Find out which ones and book tickets here.