British Comedy Guide

Schedule Monday 11th May 2009

Radio 4 9:45am
15 min
My Name Is Daphne Fairfax. Arthur Smith. Copyright: Heavy Entertainment

My Name Is Daphne Fairfax

Episode 1

Arthur's thoughts on the nature of stand-up comedy and how his desire to perform led to mirthless disaster in the rough and tumble of the emerging alternative comedy circuit - a world of sharp, political and angry jesters, directing their ire at the tired old dinosaurs of light entertainment.

Radio 4 2:15pm
45 min
Bad By Default. Copyright: BBC

Bad By Default

Tanya has bolted with her mother's credit card to Jamaica in this coming-of-age comedy drama by Leah Chillery.

Radio 4 6:30pm
30 min
The Museum Of Curiosity. Image shows from L to R: John Lloyd, Sean Lock. Copyright: BBC

The Museum Of Curiosity

Gallery 2, Episode 2 - Meeting Eight

Comedian Tim Fitzhigham, physicist Simon Singh, and Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's Guide and co-founder of The Idler donate Don Quixote, a pigeon-spattered telescope and an extremely rare cloud to the museum.

ITV3 logo. Credit: ITV 9pm
60 min
Beyond A Joke. Copyright: Granada Productions

Beyond A Joke

Episode 2 - The Birds The Blokes And The Bees

This edition examines the 1970s obsession with bawdiness and dissects how sitcoms dealt with love, sex and marriage in a typically British, raucous and outrageous manner.

BBC Three 10:30pm
30 min
Ideal. Moz (Johnny Vegas). Copyright: Baby Cow Productions

Ideal

Series 5, Episode 1 - The Healer

Jenny is in a coma and appears to be seeing the world as one big song-and-dance routine in a series of dream sequences. Meanwhile Moz receives a string of visitors - all of whom believe they can 'snap her out of it'.

BBC One. Copyright: BBC 10:40pm
30 min
The Omid Djalili Show. Omid Djalili. Copyright: BBC

The Omid Djalili Show

Series 2, Episode 4

Tonight, Omid's characters include Giggles Levine, an entertainer for Starrylight Cruises with an unexpectedly offensive act, and intrepid TV reporter Clive Wallace, who poses as a radical Anglican to go undercover just outside Chelmsford.

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