British Comedy Guide

Television

TV schedule Monday 22nd December 2008

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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