Comedy Club Extravaganza
Comedy Club Extravaganza

Comedy Club Extravaganza

  • Radio factual
  • BBC Radio 4 Extra
  • 2019
  • 1 episode

A celebration of Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club slot and its hosts. Features Jake Yapp, Jessica Fostekew, Jon Holmes, Sarah Campbell, Rob Deering and more.

Key details

Genre
Factual
Broadcast
2019
Channel
BBC Radio 4 Extra
Episodes
1
Features
Jake Yapp, Jessica Fostekew, Jon Holmes, Sarah Campbell, Rob Deering, Laura Lexx, Iain Lee, Angela Barnes and more
Producers
Laura Grimshaw
Company

Radio 4 Extra's Comedy Club is a nightly showcase of the best in radio comedy, hosted by the best contemporary comedy voices. This three-hour programme celebrates the highlights of the Comedy Club since it began, looking back at the regular and guest hosts, the sketches and songs broadcast only in the Comedy Club, and the best interviews with guests from the world of comedy.

Presenters and comedians Jake Yapp, Jessica Fostekew, Jon Holmes, Sarah Campbell, Rob Deering, Laura Lexx, Iain Lee, Angela Barnes, Paul Garner and Arthur Smith take a look through the rich, varied Comedy Club archive to present their favourite guests, interviews, sketches, monologues, characters and songs.

Also featuring archive interviews with past guests including Sharon Horgan, Charlie Brooker, People Just Do Nothing, Rosie Jones, James Acaster, John Finnemore, Mackenzie Crook, Greg Davies, Rachel Parris, Nish Kumar, Katherine Ryan, Johnny Vegas, Josie Long, Alexei Sayle and more.

Plus highlights from the Comedy Club on the road - from the Edinburgh Festival, nine years of the Machynlleth Comedy Festival, and the 2012 Cheltenham Literary Festival.

The programme also features a specially commissioned short-form documentary series: Comedy Club - 100 Glorious Years which charts the (questionable and entirely fictional) history of the Comedy Club with archive of landmark performances and presentation from the 1920s right through to the present day.

Additional details

Production
Studio

Broadcast details

First broadcast
Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 9am on BBC Radio 4 Extra
Episode length
180 minutes
All previous repeats
  • Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 7:00pm on Radio 4 Extra
  • Saturday 22nd January 2022 at 9:00am on Radio 4 Extra
  • Saturday 2nd March 2019 at 7:00pm on Radio 4 Extra

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