Comedy Lab
1998
📺 12 Seasons
🎬 101 Episodes
📅 Ended
🌐 EN
⏱️ 25 min/episode
Comedy
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.
Seasons
Season 1
Season 2
Season 3
Season 4
Season 5
Season 6
Season 7
John Link and Mick Bunnage's cult comic Modern Toss is brought to life in a mix of live action and animation.
Season 8
One man with a phone prank calls members of the public. The calls are accompanied by a visual which amplifies the comedic effect.
Season 9
Pilkington left school with only one GCSE and a deadpan voice. The exam he passed was an E in history. That doesn't sound out of the ordinary, but when you look at the fact that Pilkington thought he had two GCSEs (one in English and one in Art), it turns out that he doesn't even recall taking the exam that he passed. Herein lies the brilliance of Karl Pilkington. He then went on to talk to some very clever people indeed.
Season 10
Adolescent comedic actors take on the world of adults in a unique comedy sketch show starring Will Poulter (Son of Rambow) and Jack Harries, plus a host of rising stars.
On TV: C4 - Thurs 21 August at 10.45pm
School of Comedy features a range of characters.
There's a filthy, profane receptionist, a cross-dressing Eastern European plumber, a sexually repressed couple from the 1930s, and an emotionally inadequate mo-fo policeman.
Expect music, cross dressing and naughty words...
Season 11
Season 12
New series. A series showcasing up-and-coming comic talent, beginning with a sketch show by double act Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. Featuring the most popular soap opera in Germany and Eamonn Holmes's latest game show Pointer, plus a guest appearance by Lee Mack
Network
Channel 4
Keywords
failed tv pilotsketch comedy