Comedy Lab
Channel Channel 4 · Starring Miranda Hart, Stephen Merchant, Kristen Schaal
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.
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Episodes
- Episode 1: 1. The ServicesNovember 11, 1998
- Episode 2: 2. Turning TricksNovember 18, 1998
- Episode 3: 3. Danny Does TricksNovember 18, 1998
- Episode 4: 4. Trigger Happy TVNovember 25, 1998
- Episode 5: 5. Home & AwayNovember 25, 1998
- Episode 6: 6. Tommy Tiernan is aLive!December 2, 1998
Show 5 more episodes
- Episode 7: 7. Alan Tyler's Big Night InDecember 9, 1998
- Episode 8: 8. Vinyl TapDecember 16, 1998
- Episode 9: 9. Things to Do in Hoxton When You're DeadDecember 23, 1998
- Episode 10: 10. Twiggy No-BranchJanuary 13, 1999
- Episode 11: 11. Lenny BeigeJanuary 20, 1999
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Credits
- Miranda HartActor · 85 episodes
- Stephen MerchantJames · 85 episodes · Director · 1 episode
- Kristen SchaalPenelope · 85 episodes
- David MitchellRay · 85 episodes
- Kayvan NovakActor · 85 episodes
- Gary LewisAlec · 2 episodes
- Dominic BrigstockeDirector · 2 episodes
Film and series details
- EPISODE LENGTH
- 25 minutes
- FIRST AIRED
- November 1, 1998
- LAST AIRED
- November 18, 2011
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