Plot: A question-and-answer game pits two players or teams against a single player in a race to connect boxes from one side of the Blockbuster game board to the other.
Plot: Comedian Alan Davies is the presenter of this show that sees him interviewing some of his fellow comedians. The conversations take place in the dressing rooms of comedy clubs, which is where comedians are usually the most relaxed. Each interview begins with a fact that Alan has about the guest. After...
Plot: What happens when Comedy Central gives Adam Devine an unlimited budget and free reign to plan an epic bash? Viewers find out when Devine invites his favorite up-and-coming comics to parties at grandiose locations like a Los Angeles mansion, a New Orleans bar, and a Hawaiian resort. Things get a little...
Plot: Comedian Michael McIntyre returns with another series of family friendly entertainment. The series is presented in front of a live audience once again at the Theatre Royal on Drury Lane. McIntyre brings his own comedy to the stage, as well as introducing celebrity guests, musicians and other fellow...
Plot: Comedy panel show hosted by English comedian Jimmy Carr that uses statistics and a series of opinion polls as a basis for discussion. Celebrity guests from the worlds of comedy and entertainment are divided into two teams, and each team is posed with a number of topical and light-hearted questions...
Plot: Comic Roy Wood Jr. invites his like-minded friends to tell hilarious, true stories in front of an audience at Cheetahs in Hollywood, Calif. Rob Corddry, D.L. Hughley, Keegan-Michael Key, Bert Kreischer, Marc Maron, Steve Rannazzisi, Joe Rogan and Paul Scheer are among those who relay favorite, embarrassing...
Plot: Two teams comprised of comedians, celebrities and sports stars compete against each other in a test of their sporting knowledge. Points are awarded over three rounds to determine the winning team. The first round involves both teams having to rank three different sportspersons to a specific criterion...
Plot: Yankerville, a twisted town inhabited solely by puppets, is the setting for re-creations of actual crank phone calls. Comics and celebrities -- a list that includes people such as rapper Eminem and comics Sarah Silverman, Wanda Sykes and Drew Carey -- make the calls. Among the regular pranksters are...
Plot: The creative skills of comedy writers, animators and voice talents are on display in `Triptank'. The half-hour series showcases a wide range of fast-paced, hard-hitting shorts delivered in a variety of animation styles, with a cast of contributors including Wayne Brady, Bob Odenkirk, Curtis Armstrong...
Plot: "The Jellies" follows a family of jellyfish and their human son, 16-year-old Cornell. Cornell is a sensitive young man who learns that he was adopted at birth, which sets off a string of events as he spirals out of control on a journey to find himself. His search puts the family into uncanny situations...
Plot: Celebrities reveal unusual facts and tell embarrassing stories (some of which are true) on this comedy panel game. What could be better in the current celebrity-obsessed culture? Two teams of four celebrities compete against each other on each episode. The teammates reveal unusual facts and embarrassing...
Plot: Presented by Dara Ó Briain and Hugh Dennis, `Mock the Week' is a comedy programme that combines the best elements of panel show, stand-up and improvised games with two teams of comedians taking a satirical swipe at the news and world events. Regular game rounds include `Wheel of News', where panellists...
Plot: There's no sound, but there sure are plenty of laughs. This crazy Q-based troupe uses the city as its stage, and its inhabitants, or victims, as characters! People are caught in a twisted yet funny web of comedic deception. This updated "Candid Camera" is a tad more risque and a little kookier with...
Plot: Celebrity contestants find themselves in the hot seat as they are quizzed on the latest news. The programme consists of several rounds, including the film round, the tabloid headlines round, the odd one out round and the missing words round. Originally presented by Angus Deayton, the show has relied...
Plot: In this series comedian Russell Howard goes on a road trip with his mum Ninette. The pair drive around the USA in a minivan discovering all the eccentricities of the country and meeting people with unusual hobbies. While on the road the mum and son duo get into tricky situations including escaping...
Plot: How much do celebrities know about music? That's what `Bring the Noise' hopes to find out. Nicole Scherzinger and Tinie Tempah serve as team captains, each heading up a team of three that participate in a music trivia competition. The game is split into rounds, which include standard trivia questions...
Plot: In this BAFTA-nominated sitcom, Marcus and Stylax, played by Tom Rosenthal and Joel Fry, desperate young men from the suburbs, try to get laid, hold down jobs and climb the social ladder while living in the big city. It seems like a normal problem that people face in everyday life but they're in an...
Plot: Mechanical engineering students, Romario, Riyas, Yoodas, and Athmaram think their lives are miserable since there are no girls in their class. Much to their joy, a girl called Riya joins their class and soon becomes their friends.
Plot: "RENO 911!" alumni Thomas Lennon and Robert Ben Garant -- and the popular website Funny or Die -- are among the responsible parties for the daily, late-night comedy competition "At Midnight." Hosted by Chris Hardwick, the series welcomes a rotating lineup of top comics for a battle to determine who...
Plot: "The Jellies" follows a family of jellyfish and their human son, 16-year-old Cornell. Cornell is a sensitive young man who learns that he was adopted at birth, which sets off a string of events as he spirals out of control on a journey to find himself. His search puts the family into uncanny situations...
Plot: Dara O'Briain delves into the world of virtual reality in this gaming series. The award-winning comedian is joined in the studio by a selection of famous faces hoping to be the next 8 Bit Champion. Team captains and keen gamers, Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon, guide celebrity guests through five rounds...
Plot: Finally, this series' tag line announces, a TV show that steals from the Internet instead of the other way around. Comedian Daniel Tosh lampoons the latest viral videos, blogs, websites and Internet fads and phenomena, plus he offers `Web redemption' to the many fools out there who have already sufficiently...
Plot: Conventional improvisational comedy games are injected with a hip-hop flavour as host Nick Cannon and celebrity guest stars lead teams of comics in a series of comedy challenges. The freestyle show has featured some of TV's most viral moments from celebrity guests and performers Kevin Hart, Iggy Azalea...
Plot: Celebrities are interviewed by Doug Benson, while smoking marijuana. Each episode features a different type of marijuana and a unique implement to smoke it with.
Plot: Putting a celebrity in the cross hairs of comedic barbs is what's fun about this programme. A panel is selected, made up of the celebrity's peers as well as popular comedians, who comically trash the `honoured guest' both personally and professionally. Previously roasted celebrities include William...
Plot: Veteran TV personality Carson Daly (also known for "Total Request Live," "Today," "The Voice" and the annual special, "New Year's Eve with Carson Daly") is the host of this unique talk show that includes interviews with actors, comics, filmmakers as well as a variety of other artists. Also featured...
Plot: Host Bradley Walsh introduces the comedians and performers who enthral the audience. Comedian Joe Pasquale also plays a game with an audience member who gets the chance to sit next to a celebrity.
Plot: Urban comedy has always found a home on HBO. In the mid-1990s, "Def Comedy Jam" helped launch the careers of Dave Chappelle, Chris Tucker, Martin Lawrence, Kevin Hart and Steve Harvey, among many others. Now, "All Def Comedy" hopes to continue that legacy by showcasing stand-up performances in a variety...
Plot: `QI' is a quite interesting quiz show in that correct answers are not necessarily the goal. But responding to presenter Sandi Toksvig's mostly obscure questions in a funny or interesting way, regardless of whether the response includes a right answer, is what scores points. And points are deducted if...
Plot: Comedy panel show hosted by Sue Perkins that revolves around people, past and present, who share one common trait: their name. Two teams, captained by comedian Josh Widdicombe and Pointless's Richard Osman, take it in turns to discuss a number of famous men and women who share the same name. Filled...
Plot: Comedian and Emmy nominee Billy Eichner quizzes the public in New York City with outrageous trivia accompanied by a cohort of A-list celebrities.
Plot: The passage of time often has a way of rewriting history. So does a few drinks. The half-hour series "Drunk History" -- based on the award-winning web series -- shows how by re-enacting famous events in history as told by inebriated storytellers. Each episode takes a tour of a U.S. city to explore...
Plot: When Andy Warhol famously predicted that everybody would be famous for 15 minutes, he probably didn't know how right he would end up being thanks to such innovations as YouTube. This comedy panel show highlights viral favourites that have brought fame to their otherwise-unknown stars. Actor Kevin McHale...
Plot: Assuming the title didn't give it away, comic Amy Schumer is the creator and star of this series, which features her biting wit delivered in scripted vignettes, stand-up clips, and man-on-the-street interviews. Schumer's wholesome good looks are in stark contrast with her material -- a mix of self-...
Plot: This spin off show of `The Great British Bake Off' sees comedian Jo Brand and her panel of celebrity fans discuss the week's episode in detail. Brand and her guests review the contestants' efforts and creations as well as view unseen clips from the main show. Encouraged to get inspired by the latest...
Plot: The best stand-up comedians from around the world perform in front of a live audience in the BBC's Radio Theatre and entertain them with their hilarious acts.
Plot: Jack Dee returns to London's Hammersmith Apollo theatre for a second series of deadpan comedy featuring appearances by comedian Lee Mack, Dara O'Brian, Keith Barret and many more.
Plot: Georgie and Poppy Carlton are descendants of the British royal family and heirs to Caunty Manor, a large country estate in Norfolk, England. The young British aristocrats are about to take their first trip to the United States, where they will interact with everyday Americans as they travel from coast...
Plot: Conan the Adventurer was a weekly one hour American television live action-adventure series. It was produced by Max A. Keller and Micheline Keller from 1997 to 1998 and loosely based on the fantasy hero Conan the Barbarian. The TV show premiered on September 22, 1997. Wikipedia
Plot: `The Apprentice: You're Fired' is a comedy companion show to `The Apprentice', in which fired candidates are invited to an interview after their exit from the boardroom. Presenter Tom Allen is joined in the studio by a panel of three guests, as they review the day's episode in front of a live audience...
Plot: Before others staked a claim, there was one American family who stood for all that was spoiled, shameless and stupid. It's the Bellacourts, and as Rhode Island's first family of the Gilded Age, the insanely ridiculous, debaucherous clan have more servants than relatives, and days are filled with money...
Plot: One of L.A.'s hottest stand-up shows inspired this series. Both are hosted by comics Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani, who in 2010 began a weekly event that featured top names in the business, including Louis C.K., Robin Williams, Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, Marc Maron. Filmed at a 200-seat theater tucked...
Plot: Rick Edwards presents a panel show where two teams go up against each other in a comedy `roast'. Regular team captains Katherine Ryan and David Morgan are joined by celebrity guests whose profiles are the source of the night's entertainment. The panellists find material by delving into the lives of...
Plot: Dan is a teacher who may be less mature than his students - he can best be described as a child trapped in an adult's life - and his world is nearing a collapse. His friends are dysfunctional, including best friend Jo, who has just a loose grasp on reality. His girlfriend, Naomi, is quickly running...
Plot: Comic Jeff Ross has earned the nickname "The Roastmaster General" from his years of hurling insults at fellow comics and guests-of-honor at celebrity roasts. That makes him an ideal choice to serve as host of this weeklong event that takes the common practice of roast battles, during which two comic...
Plot: The first season of Broad City, an American television sitcom created by and starring Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, premiered on Comedy Central on January 22, 2014. The series was adapted from their independently-produced web series of the same name which ran from 2009 to 2011. Wikipedia
Plot: Award-winning comedy panel show `Celebrity Juice' is hosted by the legendary comedian Leigh Francis in the form of his alter-ego, the outrageous Keith Lemon. Keith holds nothing back as he is joined by team captains Laura Whitmore and Emily Atack, who are more often than not on the receiving end of...
Plot: Fans who know and love Larry Wilmore as the "Senior Black Correspondent" on "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart" are treated to the award-winning writer/comic hosting his own series. Sliding nicely into the coveted post-"Daily Show" time slot, "The Nightly Show" features Wilmore's humorous spin on news...
Plot: El Club de la Comedia is a comedy show meant to bring a smile to all viewers' faces. The program includes comedic monologues by special guests who are specialists in stand-up comedy.
Plot: Host Alan Carr, a renowned English comedian and television presenter, invites celebrity guests to discuss the current happenings in the world of showbiz and entertainment.
Plot: It's safe to say Nikki Glaser is in love with sex talk. That relationship -- equal parts open, honest, shameless and salacious -- is the comic's calling card, providing a platform for the self-proclaimed "curious perv" to talk about it during her act and, in the case of this series, examine with her...
Plot: Late Motiv is a Spanish late-night talk show hosted by Andreu Buenafuente. It airs on #0, the flagship TV channel of subscription platform Movistar+, and is Buenafuente's first program to air on pay television. Wikipedia
Plot: Combining two of Channel 4's favourite shows means viewers get to play along, a plus for both quiz and comedy fans alike. Jimmy Carr hosts the famous words and numbers quiz, with `8 Out of 10 Cats' team captains Sean Lock and Jon Richardson playing against each other. In each episode they are joined...
Plot: NightWash is a German television comedy show in which young artists and new stand-up comedy talents have the opportunity to perform in front of an audience with their program, typically lasting for 7â10 minutes. The series was created by, and is produced and presented by Klaus-Jü...
Plot: There's a sisterhood that women share, and its tenet is simple: We're in this together! Surviving the wonders and woes of the female sex, however, demands that its members abide by the "code" because, you know, starting a catfight on the dance floor or cutting a bathroom line is not cool. What's in...
Plot: Greg Davies is the `Taskmaster' in this game show that challenges the wit and wisdom of five comedians, who are all putting their reputations on the line. Sidekick Alex Horne assists Davies in setting up unique and ridiculous tasks for the competitors, which include painting a picture of a horse whilst...
Plot: `Unspun with Matt Forde' follows the political comedian as he gives his weekly update on national and global news, and current affairs. Forde addresses key issues in Britain in a satirical approach, with a variety of people joining in the conversation, including international comedians, studio guests...
Plot: After 45 years on the radio, popular game show `Just a Minute' is making the leap to TV ... for ten episodes, at least. Nicholas Parsons, who has presented the radio show since its 1967 debut, chairs the TV version, which faithfully sticfks to the well-known format of the radio show. In each episode...
Plot: Off with the gloves and onto the stage go funny men and women armed with their best barbs and looking for a comedy knockout. TruTV's half-hour competition series features three comics in each episode battling in fast-paced challenges, with points awarded based on positive crowd reactions. One-upmanship...
Plot: John Humphrys presents this celebrity version of long-running quiz show `Mastermind'. Each episode features four celebrity contestants competing in the question-and-answer game. The famous players have two minutes to answer questions about a specialised subject before being given two more minutes to...
Plot: Comic Jeff Ross, nicknamed "The Roastmaster General," hosts the second installment of "Roast Battle," during which two comics lambaste each other with personal jokes, and brings the duels from comedy clubs to the big stage of TV. Sixteen of the world's most venomous comics compete in a bracket-style...
Plot: Throughout its evolution from live comedy program to a four-year stint on Manhattan-based public access TV, and finally making the jump to a fully-distributed comedy network, "The Chris Gethard Show" has featured one constant -- its namesake host. Produced by Funny or Die, the series features Gethard...
Plot: Got 30 minutes to spare for some laugh therapy after a long week? "Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents... " -- previously titled "The Half Hour" -- showcases an impressive lineup of some of the best up-and-comers in comedy. Acts include Adam Cayton-Holland, Anthony DeVito, Jo Firestone, Solomon Georgio...
Plot: `The Last Leg' had its first leg as a late-night show during the 2012 Paralympics, and it was a critically acclaimed run for hosts Adam Hills, Alex Brooker and Josh Widdecombe. Now the threesome return to C4 screens to tackle the issues of the week with intelligent and alternative commentary, joined...