Comedy Lab

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.

Comedy Lab
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Laurence Rickard George Sawyer
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	12
No. of episodes	102 episodes
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Production company	Room 5
Release
Original network	Channel 4/E4
Original release	9 November 1998 (1998-11-09) – 13 November 2011 (2011-11-13)

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.^[1]

The 2001 series featured the episodes Knife and Wife (featuring Kevin Eldon), Orcadia (featuring Alice Lowe), Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer (featuring David Mitchell and Robert Webb) and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr.

The 2008 series featured the episodes Headwreckers (featuring David McSavage), 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 were iCandy, Happy Finish, Penelope Princess of Pets, Jack Whitehall Secret Census, Filth, Moviemash and Hung Out.

The 2011 lineup included: Anna & Katy (featuring Anna Crilly and Katy Wix), Totally Tom (featuring Anna Popplewell) and Rick and Peter (featuring Rick Edwards).

See also

• Comedy Showcase

References

1. Nerys Evans. "Comedy Lab 2011: Introduction". Channel 4. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

External links

• Comedy Lab on Channel 4
• Comedy Lab at IMDb