Kim Noble launches a new podcast
Today's best comedy on demand
Here's Chortle's daily round-up of new comedy to watch at home during lockdown.
This list, updated at around 3pm daily, covers subscription services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime, iPlayer and NextUp, to podcasts and shows that comedians are releasing themselves, is your essential guide to getting a daily dose of laughs.
As well as these highlights, you can search our listings for other online events using the blue box at the left or top of this page. Or if you're a promoter wanting to add an event, details are here.
Wednesday August 19
FUTILE ATTEMPTS (AT SURVIVING TOMORROW): 'Performance artist, comedian and manic-depressive' Kim Noble has decided to make a podcast 'like every other loser'. Taking stock of a life he thinks he's screwed up, his premise is that he's going to try to get a fresh start, beginning with a quest to track down and apologise to people he has wronged. It's an ambiguous mix of uncomfortable reality and comic absurdity, featuring secret recordings alongside scripted scenes, with episode one partly recorded from a Catholic church confessional booth and starring Julian Barratt as God. Adam Buxton stars as himself in a later episode. The first weekly instalment is available from the usual podcast places, including here
ALWAYS BE COMEDY: Nick Helm,Anna Mann, Nigel Ng and Suzi Ruffell is the top-notch bill for this virtual comedy night from 8pm, hosted by James Gill. Tickets.
CRAIG SHAYNAK: I AM GOOGLE: LIVE FROM HOLLYWOOD: One of the funniest, and most-watched, series from online comedy producers College Humor is If Google Was A Guy. Well, American comic Craig Shaynak brought a similar idea to the Edinburgh Fringe a couple of years before they started – and tonight revives the show online as part of the Laughing Horse virtual Free Festival. Details are here, it starts at 8pm, and it's pay-what-you-want.
Tuesday August 18
DAD JOKE: In this short film, which featured on last year's BFI London film festival last year, comic Joshua Robertson plays a version of himself, performing a make-or-break gig on the night his first child is born. There's more about how director David Abramsky made the tense film, which was a single 16-minute shot, in this article.
WHEEL OF MISFORTUNE: Sara Pascoe joins hosts Fern Brady and Alison Spittle on today's episode of this BBC podcast, to share their funniest and most humiliating break-up stories. Listen here
XS MALARKEY: Carl Donnelly headlines this week's Twitch show from the beloved Manchester club, alongside Evelyn Mok, Alex Kealey and Chortle Student Comedy Award winner Erika Ehler, hosted, as always, by Toby Hadoke. Make donations here
Monday August 17
COMEDY CENTRAL AT THE EDINBURGH FRINGE: The broadcaster stars a series of online stand-up shorts tonight, definitely not filmed at the Edinburgh Fringe. In the first, Thanyia Moore explains why she wants to nut a nine-year-old girl and talsk about pretending to be middle class on the edge of death. From 8pm on social medias, including YouTube
ALTERNATIVE COMEDY MEMORIAL SOCIETY: The series of quirky showcases from last year's Fringe continues. In the latest instalment, Thom Tuck and Tom Bell introduces to the Monkey Barrel stage Ed Aczel, Matt Winning, The Establishment, David McIver, Zeroko, Gemma Soldati Eric Lampaert, David Tieck, Linda, Sam Morrison, Kevin O'Connell, The Gorilla, Colt Cabana. Each episode is only up on YouTube for a day, so tuck into this feast before midday tomorrow, when another is on the way.
A YOUNG MAN DRESSED AS A GORILLA DRESSED AS AN OLD MAN SITS ROCKING IN A ROCKING CHAIR FOR FIFTY-SIX MINUTES AND THEN LEAVES… 12: This quintessential Fringe experience, whose title can leave you in no doubt what to expect, goes online this year. Given the audience response is such a crucial part of the experience, it'll be interesting to see how this plays out via YouTube from 2pm tomorrow...
Sunday August 16
YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN: Mel Brook's classic and affectionate parody starring Gene Wilder, Marty Feldman and Madeline Khan was on BBC One in the early hours of this morning - which means it's now available on iPlayer But only for a week, mind, thanks to royalty issues so hurry! (Incidentally, the stage musical version of the film is to be made into a live TV event in the States later this year)
SAVE LIVE COMEDY: As also featured in our round-up of the week's best live comedy, since real audiences are allowed into the Clapham Grand for the first time. Jayde Adams will introduce Ed Byrne, Jen Brister, Lost Voice Guy, Tony Law and many more, plus James Acaster, Desiree Burch and Felicity Ward beaming in from home. It starts at 7.30pm with tickets available here
FRED MACAULAY IN CONVERSATION: Another in the Gilded Balloon's series of virtual Edinburgh Fringe gigs, this talks show features the comic speaking to Still Game's Greg Hemphill and Balamory star Julie Nimmo Wilson. It starts at 5pm and tickets, priced from £2, are available here.
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Published: 19 Aug 2020
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