Comedy Lab
Rating: 7.6 · 1998 · Comedy · United Kingdom · 12 sns
Description
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.
Information
- Year
- 1998
- Genre
- Comedy
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Seasons
- 12
- TMDB
- 7.6
- IMDb
- 7.6
Director
Cast
- David Mitchell — Baron Amstrad
- Miranda Hart
- Stephen Merchant — James
- Kristen Schaal — Penelope
- Kayvan Novak
- Gary Lewis — Alec
- Peter Slater — Various Characters
- Arthur Sturridge
- Alex Zane
- Katy Brand
- Sian Gibson — Alison
- Peter Kay — Narrator / Pearl Harman / Paul le Roy / Alan McLarty / Matthew Kelly / Johnny Utah aka Craig
- Mark Williams — Mr. Anderson
- Daniel Scott-Croxford — Duncan Anderson
- Paddy McGuinness — Pump Attendant Terry
- Adam G. Goodwin — Mark Devlin
- Molly Seymour
- David Reed — Various
- Michael Redmond — Rescue Man
- Nadia Kamil — Various Characters
Similar
- 30 Rock (2006)
- Robot Chicken (2005)
- The Carol Burnett Show (1967)
- Key & Peele (2012)
- Horrible Histories (2009)
- Nick Cannon Presents: Wild 'N Out (2005)
- Monty Python's Flying Circus (1969)
- Saturday Night Live (1975)
- Portlandia (2011)
- Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007)
- Mr. Show with Bob and David (1995)
- Chappelle's Show (2003)