British Comedy Guide

Schedule Monday 22nd December 2008

Radio 4 11:30am
30 min
Spending My Inheritance. Image shows from L to R: Brian (Kenneth Cranham), Liz (Judy Parfitt), Jess (Antonia Thomas), Harry (Kris Marshall), Jo (Raquel Cassidy). Copyright: BBC

Spending My Inheritance

Episode 6 - Just One Night

When faced with domestic disaster, Harry and Jo turn to his parents to put them up for a night. However, despite their recent equity release, it seems that they are as tight as ever. Meanwhile, their daughter Jess and her flirty friend plan a party in the empty house.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
Genius. Dave Gorman. Copyright: BBC

Genius

2008 Special - Lee Mack

A special edition of Genius for Christmas, with guest judge Lee Mack. Winning idea was to put lonely hearts adverts on the back of ready-meals for one.

BBC Three 8pm
30 min
Clone. Image shows from L to R: Dr. Victor Blenkinsop (Jonathan Pryce), Clone (Stuart McLoughlin). Copyright: Roughcut Television

Clone

Episode 6 - The Librarian

A mysterious American arrives in the village and shows an unhealthy interest in Victor and Clone. Victor gets closer to his goal of fixing Clone, while Colonel Black gets closer to figuring out where the men are hiding. By the end of this episode, everything viewers think they know about the characters is turned on its head...

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 9pm
30 min
QI. Stephen Fry. Copyright: TalkbackThames

QI

Series F, Christmas Special - Fire And Freezing

Special Christmas episode, with Dom Joly, Rob Brydon and Clive Anderson.

BBC Four 9pm
90 min
Comedy Songs - The Pop Years. Copyright: Shine / BBC

Comedy Songs - The Pop Years

Documentary which traces the modern history of the comedy pop song from the birth of the charts in 1952 to its reinvention in the new millennium.

We discover that George Martin was the missing link between The Goons and the Beatles, that the Barron Knights invented the parody song and that The Two Ronnies were not big fans of Not the Nine O'Clock News.

Almost everyone appears in the comedy song's chequered history of peaks and troughs, from the 1960s satire boom to the 1970s golden period of Monty Python and Billy Connolly and on through the wilderness years of 1980s novelty naffness and its redemption in alternative comedy and the likes of Victoria Wood and Alexei Sayle.

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