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 Lab
Comedy LabSeries

Details

First aired
1 Nov 1998
Seasons
12
Episodes
101
  • TMDB 7.5
Last aired
18 Nov 2011
Genres
  • Comedy
Status
Ended
Network
Channel 4
Episode runtime
25 min
Countries
  • GB
Original language
en
Original title
Comedy Lab
Writers
Alice LowePeter SlaterDemetri MartinJames AndersonPeter KayRussell BrandSusan CalmanPaul Garner

Series