Comedy Lab

Comedy Lab

Comedy Lab is a British television series which showcases pilots of experimental comedy shows. Series have been aired irregularly on Channel 4 and E4 since 1998. Several pilots first shown on Comedy Lab have gone on to spawn full series, most notably Trigger Happy TV, Fonejacker, That Peter Kay Thing, Meet the Magoons and FM. It also gave Jimmy Carr his first television appearance in Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos. The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife, Orcadia, Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr. The 2008 series features the episodes Headwreckers, Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool, Pappy's Fun Club, School of Comedy and Slaterwood. 2010's shows are iCandy, Happy Finish, Penelope Princess of Pets, Jack Whitehall Secret Census, Filth, Moviemash and Hung Out. The 2011 lineup includes: Anna & Katy, Totally Tom and Rick and Peter.

Comedy

Seasons

1. The Services

Air Date: 1998-11-11

2. Turning Tricks

Air Date: 1998-11-18

3. Danny Does Tricks

Air Date: 1998-11-18

4. Trigger Happy TV

Air Date: 1998-11-25

5. Home & Away

Air Date: 1998-11-25

6. Tommy Tiernan is aLive!

Air Date: 1998-12-02

7. Alan Tyler's Big Night In

Air Date: 1998-12-09

8. Vinyl Tap

Air Date: 1998-12-16

9. Things to Do in Hoxton When You're Dead

Air Date: 1998-12-23

10. Twiggy No-Branch

Air Date: 1999-01-13

11. Lenny Beige

Air Date: 1999-01-20

1. Los Dos Bros

Air Date: 1999-08-31

2. All Aboard the Cat Bus

Air Date: 1999-09-01

3. Shadows of Reflections

Air Date: 1999-09-01

4. Beyond a Joke

Air Date: 1999-09-02

5. Vent

Air Date: 1999-09-07

6. Golden Years

Air Date: 1999-09-08

7. The Entertainer

Air Date: 1999-09-09

8. Whatever

Air Date: 1999-09-14

9. Heart and Sole

Air Date: 1999-09-15

10. Pornorama

Air Date: 1999-09-16

11. Roy Dance Is Dead

Air Date: 1999-09-16

1. 3anusPIE

Air Date: 2000-10-10

2. Popcultomania

Air Date: 2000-10-10

3. The Earl

Air Date: 2000-10-11

4. Shut Up and Dance

Air Date: 2000-10-17

5. House of Rock Awards

Air Date: 2000-10-17

6. The Scunthorpe Ball Run

Air Date: 2000-10-24

7. The Cannonball Run

Air Date: 2000-10-24

8. Global Pillage

Air Date: 2000-10-31

9. Anderson

Air Date: 2000-11-07

10. Critical Mass

Air Date: 2000-11-14

11. Rolf's Animal Hairdressers

Air Date: 2000-11-21

12. Meat

Air Date: 2000-11-21

1. The Richard Taylor Interviews

Air Date: 2001-11-01

2. Orcadia

Air Date: 2001-11-08

3. Shut Up and Dance

Air Date: 2001-11-15

4. Origen's Wake

Air Date: 2001-11-15

5. Jimmy Carr's World of ... Corporate Videos

Air Date: 2001-11-22

6. Model, Actress, Whatever

Air Date: 2001-11-29

7. Knife & Wife

Air Date: 2001-12-06

8. Turn the World Down

Air Date: 2001-12-13

9. Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer

Air Date: 2001-12-20

10. The Pooters

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1. Shoreditch Tw*t

Air Date: 2002-10-31

2. Matthew & Tone: Tales of Friendship & Innocence

Air Date: 2002-11-07

3. Captain V

Air Date: 2002-11-14

4. The Last Chancers

Air Date: 2002-11-21

5. The Best of Britain

Air Date: 2002-11-28

6. Meet the Magoons

Air Date: 2002-12-05

7. Pam Ann's Mile-High Club

Air Date: 2002-12-12

8. My Mouth Shall Speak the Praise of Thy Lord

Air Date: 2003-01-13

1. 12:21

Air Date: 2004-02-11

2. Clitheroe

Air Date: 2004-02-11

3. The Russell Brand

Air Date: 2004-02-17

4. Private Lives

Air Date: 2004-02-17

5. Puppet Access TV

Air Date: 2004-02-17

6. Chancers

Air Date: 2004-02-24

7. Tracy and I

Air Date: 2004-02-24

1. Modern Toss

Air Date: 2005-05-10

John Link and Mick Bunnage's cult comic Modern Toss is brought to life in a mix of live action and animation.

2. Speeding

Air Date: 2005-05-11

3. Glenn Wool: What's the Story?

Air Date: 2005-05-12

4. Whatever

Air Date: 2005-05-13

A Series of bizarre sketches by teenagers.

5. Blackout

Air Date: 2005-05-16

6. I'm Spazticus

Air Date: 2005-05-17

Hidden camera comedy featuring a cast of disabled performers playing pranks on an unsuspecting public.

7. Pritch and Panch: The Cinderfella Experience

Air Date: 2005-05-18

Dirty Sanchez pranksters Pritch and Pratch are sent to Amsterdam to get a taste of the transsexual experience.

8. Tatoo

Air Date: 2005-05-19

Comedy set in a tatoo studio in Leeds telling the story of two body artists.

1. Fonejacker

Air Date: 2006-05-09

One man with a phone prank calls members of the public. The calls are accompanied by a visual which amplifies the comedic effect.

2. Bad Crowd

Air Date: 2006-05-09

Like any comedy prison, HMP Brickway's population is a mixed bag! Aiden McCabe is struggling to adjust to prison life and his newly-discovered sexual orientation

3. Transmission Impossible

Air Date: 2006-05-10

Spoof clip show featuring selections of programmes which, given an ill wind of broadcasting desperation, might actually exist in a parallel world.

4. FM

Air Date: 2006-05-10

Pilot of show which went on to become a hit ITV2 sitcom set in a radio station. The Actors were all changed for the full series tho.

5. Dynamo's Estate of Mind

Air Date: 2006-05-11

Street magician Dynamo is emerging as one of the most exciting talents around with his stylish and energetic approach to magic influenced by underground poker clubs and incorporating hip-hop movement. This Comedy Lab sees Dynamo and Marcus (his best mate and cameraman) embarking on a 48-hour journey from their home town of Bradford to the bright lights of London, as Dynamo performs tricks in the infamous Delph Hill Estate where he grew up, his old school, and the youth clubs, bars and kebab shops where he first started performing his magic. Dynamo sets himself the challenge of blagging food, transport and access to night clubs and exclusive parties for the entire 48 hours with no money, using only his magic skills.

6. Dog Almighty

Air Date: 2006-05-11

Dog-based animated sketch show which uses recorded conversations and replaces humans with animated dogs. Following on from the success of internet phenomenon Dog Judo (which has had over 10 million hits to date), Dog Almighty uses several styles of animation to bring to life dogs who discuss supermarket etiquette, their desire to father baby boys and who'd win a fight with Jimmy Saville

7. Alex Zane's House of Games

Air Date: 2006-05-12

Alex Zane presents a peculiar game show in which four contestants are subjected to a series of bizarre challenges, each hoping to win a paid month off work. Along the way, they'll be expected to battle against good and evil, take on the host's relations and complete physical tests

8. Slap

Air Date: 2006-05-12

Sketch show in which Katy Brand puts celebrity fakery under the spotlight by parodying stars including Kate Winslet and Kate Moss, and provides her own take on a bad nun and a woman-hating TA captain.

1. Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool

Air Date: 2007-10-22

Pilkington left school with only one GCSE and a deadpan voice. The exam he passed was an E in history. That doesn't sound out of the ordinary, but when you look at the fact that Pilkington thought he had two GCSEs (one in English and one in Art), it turns out that he doesn't even recall taking the exam that he passed. Herein lies the brilliance of Karl Pilkington. He then went on to talk to some very clever people indeed.

2. Documental

Air Date: 2007-10-23

3. Ain't It Funny Being Coloured

Air Date: 2007-10-24

4. The Smallest Game in Town

Air Date: 2007-10-25

5. Doug Stanhope, Go Home

Air Date: 2007-10-26

6. Blowout

Air Date: 2007-10-27

7. Uncle Rubbish

Air Date: 2007-10-28

8. Swizzcall

Air Date: 2007-10-29

1. School of Comedy

Air Date: 2008-08-21

Adolescent comedic actors take on the world of adults in a unique comedy sketch show starring Will Poulter (Son of Rambow) and Jack Harries, plus a host of rising stars. On TV: C4 - Thurs 21 August at 10.45pm School of Comedy features a range of characters. There's a filthy, profane receptionist, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, a sexually repressed couple from the 1930s, and an emotionally inadequate mo-fo policeman. Expect music, cross dressing and naughty words...

2. Slaterwood

Air Date: 2008-08-22

3. Headwreckers

Air Date: 2008-08-25

4. Mr and Mrs Fandango

Air Date: 2008-08-26

5. Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits

Air Date: 2008-08-28

6. Pappy's Fun Club

Air Date: 2008-08-28

1. iCandy

Air Date: 2010-04-19

2. Happy Finish

Air Date: 2010-04-19

3. Penelope, Princess Of Pets

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4. The Secret Census

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5. Filth

Air Date: 2010-04-22

6. Moviemash

Air Date:

7. Hung Out

Air Date:

1. Anna & Katy

Air Date: 2011-09-02

New series. A series showcasing up-and-coming comic talent, beginning with a sketch show by double act Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. Featuring the most popular soap opera in Germany and Eamonn Holmes's latest game show Pointer, plus a guest appearance by Lee Mack

2. Totally Tom

Air Date: 2011-09-09

Sketch show written and performed by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton set in an unusual and often macabre metropolis, which is inhabited by an array of characters including a pair of cocaine-fuelled `posh girls'. There is also a police officer with an over-enthusiastic sense of drama and Scottish brothers locked in a cycle of poverty

3. Rick and Peter

Air Date: 2011-09-16

Rick Edwards and Peter Mitchell deliver a satirical exploration of TV presenting by playing caricatures of themselves. After Rick makes a regrettable gag while working, he and Peter have to undertake a crash-course in political correctness

4. Mr. & Mrs. Hotty Hott Hot Show

Air Date: 2011-11-18

Mr. & Mrs. Hotty Hott Hot Show

6. Kabadasses

Air Date: 2011-11-13

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Rating

7.6/10

Release Date

1998-11-01

Episodes

101 (12 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast