#netflix comedy special mae martin

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Exclusive Interview: Mae Martin on their Netflix comedy special SAP "I’m glad it feels inviting - there’s so much darkness in the world that it’s nice to create a warmer space"

Canadian comedian, writer, and actor, Mae Martin makes their hilarious and unexpectedly poignant hour-long comedy special debut with SAP, launching globally on Netflix on Tuesday, March 28th, 2023. Directed by Abbi Jacobson, the wide-ranging set—filmed last December at the Vogue Theater in Vancouver, Canada—sees Mae reflect on their childhood memories, a mythical moose encounter, socializing…

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[Image ID: Ten screenshots from Mae Martin's comedy special Sap. They're saying, "I'd be like, 'No, there's so much work to be done on the Internet. There's so much going on.' I was like, 'I have to copy and paste images of Buffy the Vampire Slayer into a Word document. I then have to print that Word document. The paper will be sodden with ink. Just heavy with ink. Like... I have to cut those pictures out, and it's going to be like cutting wet toilet paper. I then have to stick those pictures onto my homework diary.'" /end ID]

I’m exactly the demographic where, for me, puberty coincided almost exactly with the arrival of the internet | MAE MARTIN: SAP (2023)

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It’s telling that both Dave Chappelle and Ricky Gervais decided to end 2023 by releasing specials in which their comedy pivots to poking fun at the disabled. Could they be more obvious about finding new ways to punch down than targeting people physically unable to fight back?

In a false promise near the opening of his brand-new special and seventh for Netflix, The Dreamer, Chappelle boasts: “Tonight, I’m doing all handicapped jokes,” because “well, they’re not as organized as the gays, and I love punching down.”

Similarly, Gervais decides to have a bit of fun at how we’ve decided as a society to say “disabled” instead of “handicapped” and what that says about us, and suggests further in his special Armageddon, released on Christmas Day, that he’d mock Make-A-Wish kids if given the chance to make videos for them.

And, of course, both men take yet more cracks at the trans community.

Early in The Dreamer, Chappelle tells the audience trans people make him feel like he has to go along with them pretending, as if they’re method acting like Jim Carrey as Andy Kaufman: “If you came here to this show tonight thinking that I’m gonna make fun of those people again, you’ve come to the wrong show,” only to keep going back on his word.

He says he hoped to “repair” his relationship with the LGTBQ+ community – by writing a play for them in which a black trans woman only identifies as the N-word to trip up liberals. He also jokes that if he went to jail in California, he’d identify as a woman so he could tell the other inmates to “suck my lady dick.”

But it’s all just jokes, right? Can’t we just take a joke? Have we lost our sense of humor? Or have they?

Earlier this month, we lost two pillars not just of the comedy community but of our American community writ, as Norman Lear and Tommy Smothers stood taller than most anyone and everyone else in television, standing up to the establishment and protesting the powers that be for the sake of civil rights and humanity.

Now we’re left with Chappelle and Gervais—two titans in terms of Netflix ratings and paychecks—who are fighting for… the right to utter slurs onstage and tell already marginalized people that their existence is a joke for reasons that are nearly impossible to divine. Especially when there’s so much in the world to talk about right now, that they’ve chosen anti-trans rights as their comedy cause célèbre is dispiriting. As Mae Martin said in their 2023 Netflix special, Sap: “Big multimillionaire comedians in their stand-up specials are, like, taking shots and punching down at a time when trans rights are so tenuous and slipping backwards.”

Lear and Smothers used their clout on TV to speak truth to power about America’s involvement in Vietnam and Southeast Asia, the hypocrisy of religion, racism, abortion, homosexuality and civil rights. While great trans comedians such as River Butcher and Jaye McBride resorted to releasing their stand-up specials straight to YouTube this year, which famous straight comedians can you recall sticking up for the rights of trans people in America?

It feels so frustrating to sit and watch comedians with the stature of Chappelle and Gervais devote so much of their time and energy to bullying the LGBTQ+ community when they could be doing anything else on stage. And then they have the temerity to question us, the audience, for not laughing with them.

For his part, Gervais willingly misdefines and misuses “woke” by suggesting, “if woke now means being a puritanical, authoritarian bully who gets people fired for an honest opinion or even a fact, then no, I’m not woke. Fuck that.” Is Nazism or transphobia an honest opinion that shouldn’t get you fired? He then claims in his closing bit that “all laughter’s good,” a concept that would be news to 2005-era Chappelle when he cut ties with Comedy Central precisely because he could hear racism in the laughs during a taping of Chappelle’s Show.

In his Grammy-nominated lecture to students at his alma mater, Duke Ellington School of the Arts, What’s In A Name?, Chappelle claimed: “The more you say I can’t say something, the more urgent it is for me to say it. It has nothing to do with what you’re saying I can’t say. It has everything to do with my right and my freedom of artistic expression.”

But that’s not comedy, either—much like Gervais’ admission in his special that as a university student, his idea of a joke was calling his mother and pranking her by saying he was hospitalized and potentially blind. Gervais said her mom could’ve had a heart attack, but in his mind, he remembers it now as “they could take a fucking joke, right?”

At least Sam Jay, in her 2023 HBO special Salute Me Or Shoot Me, wrestles with her conscience and moral compass over the use of certain words in her act and concludes that having empathy for others is key. “How do the rest of us get here? I don’t know… I’m not going to pretend that I have the answers,” Jay says, adding: “So we’re doing things like we’re policing words, but we’re not policing behavior.”

Anthony Jeselnik, who has built his comedy career on brandishing himself as an offensive caricature of a comedian, told fellow comedian and podcaster Theo Von earlier this year that too many stand-ups would rather get into trouble by saying the wrong thing instead of focusing on their job and saying funny things.

“People think — oh, as a comic your job is to get in trouble. But they don’t want to get yelled at. It’s like, it’s OK to make people mad, but they don’t want any push back. And I think that’s wrong,” Jeselnik said. “As a comedian, you want to make people laugh. This is a quote attributed to Andy Warhol that I love: ‘Art is getting away with it.’ You know, if you put out a special and everyone’s pissed, like, you didn’t get away with it. You know. You need to make everyone laugh that they’re like, ‘Yeah, he talked about some fucked up stuff, but we’re all happy.’ That’s art. Otherwise, you’re just a troll.”

Kliph Nesteroff, a comedy historian whose newest book is Outrageous: A History of Showbiz and the Culture Wars, similarly told me last month that some while comedians see themselves sometimes as “philosophers” he believes they are “betraying their job description because you’re supposed to make people laugh, and philosophers are supposed to philosophize.”

Comedians may claim they can’t joke about anything anymore, but they joke about more now than ever before. The real problem with stand-up today is that too many comedians would rather kick people when they’re down, then lecture us on how we’re too sensitive for not laughing about it.

When Chappelle, Gervais or their acolytes have to incessantly explain that their jokes are just jokes, then they cease to be great comedians—or even comedians at all.

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Here is my proper introduction post because my old one is shitttt

Hi, I’m Eli, or Avdio, or Dio, or Bliss, honestly I’m okay with anything. My pronouns are He/Him! I am a TransMasc, so expect random ass LGBTQIA+ posts for the shits and giggles!

I’m 16, but I will sometimes repost NSFW fics, purely because I was on Wattpad at the age of 12 and have become desensitised to it lol

I swear a LOT

My main fandoms are: Lockwood And Co, Dead Boy Detectives, Brooklyn 99, Doctor Who, Sherlock, Marvel, Once Upon A Time and well a lot of things tbh, if you name it I am probably a fan!

I love music so much, expect random posts about bands and songs, including Nothing But Thieves, Coldplay, The Amazons etc etc. I listen to everything tho, including Taylor Swift and Pierce The Veil. Literally anything :)

I’m also a massive reader, yes come and talk to me about romance books (pleasepleasepleaseplease). I mainly read romance, fantasy, comedy but will sometimes venture further, with crime and sad stuff (Kathleen Glasgow I adore you). I have read a lot of booktok books, purely because I cannot make my own decisions :P. Come and talk to me about Sarah J Maas PLEASE.

I’m big into comedians, Rob Beckett, Greg Davies, Phil Wong and Jack Whitehall. And like 20 others. Talk to me about Taskmaster because it is amazing. I love Alex Horne and the tasks, and the chemistry between ever series contenders! I’ve seen it all at least twice, so if you are into it dm me because I will ramble. But most specifically I love Mae Martin and my favourite is James Acaster! I’ve seen him live 3 times and met him twice! He is one of my most favourite people, I’d highly recommend you check out his special on Netflix.

My asks are always open, please leave them!! I love getting the notification!! I am also here to listen if you have any problems, and my DMs are open if you don’t want it to be public.

Free Palestine 🇵🇸

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I watched this comedy special, it's pretty fun! This is "Sap" by Mae Martin on Netflix, I'm pretty sure, if not then just search up Mae Martin on Netflix

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Why Won't You Date Me Podcast: Before The Romance Comes The Dating!

"Dying is easy, comedy is hard” is supposedly a deathbed quote attributed to character actor Edmund Gwenn, who is most famous for playing Kris Kringle in the 1947 film Miracle on 34th Street.  

Gwenn was absolutely correct in his observation and comedy podcasting is exhibit number one. Comedy and true-crime are two of the most popular genres in podcasting. Popularity breeds imitation and comedy podcasts proliferate in the podcasting space like Tribbles in the famous eponymously named Star Trek episode. 

Comedy podcasts come in all shapes, sizes, and sounds. We have the "bros" who harken back to middle school with fart jokes and tales of their boogers. We have the edgy comics who think they push the envelope when, in reality, they're just splashing around in crude observations that aren't funny. 

In summary, there are many more people in podcasting trying to be funny than are truly funny. Nicole Byer belongs to the category of "just plain funny."   

Nicole Byer is an actress, comedian, writer, author and podcaster, she is perhaps most well-known as the host of Netflix’s Emmy-nominated competition baking series Nailed It! In 2020, Nicole made history by becoming the first black woman ever to be nominated in the category of “Outstanding Host for A Reality or Competition Program” and was nominated again in 2021 and 2022. Nicole can be seen in her debut solo stand-up special for Netflix, Nicole Byer: Big Beautiful Weirdo, and previously on the NBC comedy Grand Crew. Nicole can most recently be seen in Focus Feature’s The American Society of Magical Negroes, a satirical comedy and the 2024 American comedy film, Thelma. Both received rave reviews during their premieres at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival.

Why Won't You Don't Me is a comedy and relationship podcast hosted by Nicole Byer which debuted on December 1, 2017.  The podcast features Byer and a guest exploring why she is single, while discussing topics related to love, life, and sex. The format of an episode typically involves Byer introducing her guest/s, as they then talk about their respective experiences with sex, dating, relationships, and love. In most episodes, the guest will critique Byer's online dating profiles, before closing the episode by discussing whether or not they would date her - and why.

While the featured guest is often another comedian, Byer has also hosted former partners and her own childhood friends. Notable guests who have appeared on Why Won't You Date Me? include Sasheer Zamata, Rachel Bloom, Jameela Jamil, Joel Kim Booster, Vicky Vox, and Trixie Mattel.

Ms. Byer even creates a new logo for every episode, as seen here with Jameela Jamil.

 In 2019, Why Won't You Date Me? won Outstanding Foreign Series at the Canadian Podcasting Awards, which is "awarded to a breakthrough show – across any format and category – produced outside of Canada." In 2021, Why Won't You Date Me? won the Best Overall Host – Female iHeartMedia Podcast Award. In 2023, it won best comedy podcast in the Ambies Awards. 

The show recently announced that comedy podcast network Headgum has acquired the rights to the podcast. The acquisition comes on the heels of a recent announcement that the network also added Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin’s podcast HANDSOME to its expanding lineup of comedy podcasts. Headgum is a premier comedy podcast network behind shows such as Doughboys, Handsome, The Lamorning After, Gayotic with MUNA, and Seek Treatment with Cat & Pat. As part of the deal, Nicole Byer will begin recording video episodes from Headgum’s LA and NYC studios. Headgum will also manage the show’s ad sales through Gumball, their marketplace for advertisers to buy host-read ads directly from podcasters. The first Why Won’t You Date Me? episode under Headgum is out this week, and features an interview with comedian and personal friend of Byer, Lauren Lapkus (Orange Is the New Black, Crashing, The Big Bang Theory). Other upcoming guests include Randall Park, Sarah Silverman, Jimmy Kimmel, and Nick Kroll, among others. In each episode, Byer and fellow comedians, friends, and ex-flings talk romance and share their wildest dating tales, from cringeworthy first dates to jaw-dropping hookup stories.

 “Nicole Byer says: "Why Won’t You Date Me? is my favorite podcast child - just don’t tell the others. I’m looking forward to bringing her back home to Headgum, where we first launched the show in 2017. I’ve hosted WWYDM for many years, and it’s scary and comforting to know that there will always be new content when it comes to dating - whether it’s fresh horror stories, new relationship scenarios, and unbelievably cute love stories - and I’m thrilled to be the host helping my listeners navigate it all every week." “There’s no question that Nicole is one of the top podcast hosts of all time - there is rarely someone who is so prolific and so consistently hilarious - and Why Won’t You Date Me? is a comedy podcast classic,” said Headgum VP of Content, Kaiti Moos. New episodes of Why Won’t You Date Me? are released on Fridays and can be found wherever you listen to podcasts, including on the Why Won’t You Date Me? YouTube channel.

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Today's List of Nice Things:

Talked to a bunch of straight allies about queer theology tonight, haha. They were really nice but boy was it WEIRD

My kitty has a vet appointment tomorrow. Thank goodness I had some leftover anxiety meds from his last vet visit. I think it helped him a lot. He slept most of the day but he's been so cute when he's awake.

Rewatching the queer standup special on Netflix. Mae Martin is queer comedy royalty.

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Comedian Mae Martin is dating Survivor star Parvati Shallow

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Comedian Mae Martin is dating Survivor star Parvati Shallow

Survivor winner Parvati Shallow has come out as queer and shared she’s in a relationship with comedian Mae Martin.

Just before New Year’s, the US Survivor legend and the Canadian non-binary Feel Good star both shared the same cute photo booth strip to Instagram.

“We’re here. We’re queer. Happy new year,” Parvati wrote in the caption.

Parvati Shallow has appeared on US Survivor four times (!) and won Survivor: Micronesia — Fans vs Favorites in 2008. The reality TV pro will next appear in the upcoming second season of the US version of The Traitors.

Mae Martin, who uses they/them pronouns, is known for their brilliant Netflix comedy series Feel Good.

Mae also got their own stand-up special SAP that was released on Netflix last year.

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‘Life can be a really beautiful journey’

It’s not known how long Parvati Shallow and her partner Mae Martin have been together. Parvati possibly alluded to the relationship in an earlier November Instagram post.

That sweet post included photos of Parvati together with her daughter, as well as Mae and other friends and family.

“Some people come into your life at the perfect and most unexpected time,” Parvati wrote.

“They see you, they love you right where you are, they make you laugh so hard you cry, and they celebrate your wins and lift you up.

“They do art projects with your kids and play hide and seek after dinner.

“When you’re sequestered in an airport hotel alone on your birthday, they throw a big surprise party for you when you’re home.

“They remind you that even when it’s hard, life can be a really beautiful journey.”

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For the latest LGBTIQA+ Sister Girl and Brother Boy news, entertainment, community stories in Australia, visit qnews.com.au. Check out our latest magazines or find us on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and YouTube.

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Wanda Sykes says she would call out Dave Chappelle’s transphobia

Wanda Sykes isn’t afraid to call out transphobia—even to friend and fellow comic Dave Chappelle. In a recent interview about her new Netflix stand-up special I’m an Entertainer, the out comedian told Variety that she and Chappelle have known each other since they both started out performing in Washington, D.C. comedy clubs. Chappelle, of course, has been widely criticized for transphobic jokes in his own 2021 comedy special, The Closer, and for doubling down on his transphobia ever since. --- Related Stories Mae Martin calls out Dave Chappelle for anti-trans jokes in new Netflix special The nonbinary comic says that fellow comedians who think the “woke left” is coming to “cancel” them are being tricked. --- Sykes said that while she hasn’t had a chance to talk to Chappelle since the special dropped, she wouldn’t hesitate to call him out. Get the Daily Brief The news you care about, reported on by the people who care about you. “If our paths did cross, I totally would say something,” she said, noting that “I still love the guy.” Sykes also explained why she felt it was important to include a run of jokes criticizing anti-trans laws banning trans women from women’s bathrooms in I’m an Entertainer, which premiered on Netflix earlier this week. “I knew that it’s such a delicate issue to talk about. I’m not trans, but they have my support, 100%,” she said. “I wanted to find something where I can shine some light on what they’re going through, to show how just stupid and hateful really it is.” Last year, Netflix drew criticism again for platforming another transphobic comedian. In his May 2022 special SuperNature, Ricky Gervais spewed hateful misinformation about trans women reinforcing the baseless stereotype that many are secretly sexual predators. Asked whether her Netflix special “balances out” transphobic content on the platform, Sykes had this to say: “I don’t know about balancing it out, because I think what [Chappelle] said was so hurtful and damaging to the trans community. So yeah, the scale is still tipped, I will say, in their favor. But I know I wanted to say something, because so much has been said on that platform. I definitely want to something on the other side of it.” Sykes is also refreshingly candid about her process of determining how her own jokes about trans people are received and understood by audiences. “In the trans area, I had to step some things back that might be misconstrued as me making fun, instead of trying to help,” she explained. “It was more about the laws making it a crime for parents to help their children who were having gender identity issues. I said to myself, ‘You don’t know what the fuck you’re talking about — shut up and let’s just talk about the bathrooms.’” For Sykes, getting a laugh out of her audience is apparently less important than the impact her comedy might have on perceptions of a marginalized community. “The audience, they did laugh,” she said of certain jokes she later removed from her set. “But then I was like, ‘Wait a minute. Why are y’all laughing? What are you laughing about?’ So yeah, I’m quick to get rid of something if it doesn’t feel right.” http://dlvr.it/Spf2xn

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Mae Martin's "SAP" Delivers Intimate, Silly, and Refreshingly Hopeful Comedy Their new stand-up special weaves Buddhist parables with playful jokes and vulnerable stories from their life. https://www.them.us/story/mae-martin-sap-netflix-interview

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tvrundown USA 2023.03.28

Tuesday, March 28th:

(exclusive): Mae Martin: "SAP" (netflix, stand-up special), Staged (BritBox, Zoom comedy, season 3 available, all 6 eps)

(streaming weekly): How I Met Your Father (hulu, next 2 eps, midseason finale)

(also new): CMT Storytellers (CMT, "Kane Brown" special)

(hour 1): The Rookie (ABC), Night Court (NBC) / �� / American Auto (NBC), Superman & Lois (theCW), "9-1-1: Lone Star" (FOX)

(hour 2): The Rookie: Feds (ABC), The Voice (NBC), Gotham Knights (theCW), Accused (FOX), Superchef Grudge Match (FOOD)

(hour 3): Will Trent (ABC), That's My Jam (NBC), History's Greatest Heists (HIST, season 1 finale)

[repeats, resuming next week for crossover: FBI (CBS), FBI: International (CBS), FBI: Most Wanted (CBS) ]

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New On Netflix March 2023: 'Murder Mystery 2,' 'World War Z' And More

Good news for comedy fans with a Netflix subscription! The streaming service is due to add nearly 100 titles in March, including a number of fresh comedy specials and funny movies. Nearly one year after the infamous Oscars slap moment, comedian Chris Rock is taking the stage on March 4 for the platform’s very first live-streamed event, “Chris Rock: Selective Outrage.” Comedian Mae Martin ― whom…

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Bonus

[Inspired by Mae Martin's Netflix special, Comediants around the world

Original dialogue:

...it was a secret relationship 'cause it was with a woman who'd never been with a girl before and she was stressed about it and she didn't want to tell anyone... We lived together. Our friends would come round, she'd be like:

"This is my roommate, Mae."

I'd be like wearing a strap-on, like [laugther] "Hello, I'm the weird roommate."]

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Feel Good: A Near-Perfect Dark Comedy - Netflix Review

Feel Good: A Near-Perfect Dark Comedy - Netflix Review Mae Martin writes and stars in this comedy exploring how messed up life can be. #FeelGood

Mae Martin writes and stars in this comedy exploring how messed up life can be. I love a good dark comedy and I especially love a comedy that’s aimed at trying to explore real-life issues. This show is the middle of that Venn diagram. Mae Martin, who you may have seen in their Netflix stand-up special, plays Mae, a character who is blatantly based on them. Mae is an English-Canadian comedian who…

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New British comedy TV series from 2020: BBC, Channel 4, Sky, Dave, Amazon, Netflix

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2020 in British TV comedy brought us Maisie Williams as a kickass survivalist in a pickle, and a new parenting comedy from the hugely talented Simon Blackwell and Chris Addison starring Martin Freeman.

To add to that, there was also a fresh batch of comedians playing exaggerated versions of themselves in self-penned sitcoms, including Katherine Ryan, Mae Martin, Sara Pascoe, Kayleigh Llewellyn, Lucy Beaumont and Jon Richardson. 

Here’s the skinny on all those new shows and more. Here’s what arrived in 2019, and here are the new British TV dramas that arrived in 2020.

Breeders

After their excellent 2014 relationship comedy Trying Again, Chris Addison and Simon Blackwell (Veep, The Thick Of It) teamed up on a new series, this time about the trials of parenthood. Martin Freeman and Daisy Haggard played parents in this ten-part half-hour comedy, a co-production between Sky in the UK and FX in the US. Watch the first trailer here.

Bumps

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

A Comedy Playhouse commission for BBC One, Bumps comes from Psychobitches and Tracey Ullman’s Show writer-actor Lucy Montgomery (pictured) and The Life Of Rock With Brian Pern‘s Rhys Thomas. The half-hour pilot is a modern family comedy that centres on Amanda Redman’s character Anita, a divorcee in her sixties with two grown-up kids, who decides to have a third baby with the help of an egg and sperm donor. Playing Anita’s daughter Joanne is Lisa McGrillis (behind the brilliantly dim and tactless but very sweet Kelly on Mum), who discovers she’s pregnant at the same time as her mother.

Code 404

After 2019’s pilot, Sky ordered six episodes of this sci-fi comedy starring Daniel Mays (Line Of Duty, Vera Drake) and Stephen Graham (Boardwalk Empire, The Virtues), written by Mongrels and Not Going Out’s Daniel Peak. It’s a buddy cop drama set in the near future, which sees crime-fighting duo DI John Major (Mays) and DI Roy Carver (Graham) first separated, then reunited thanks to the wonders of modern science. Series two is on its way.

Feel Good

Stand-up Mae Martin co-wrote her autobiographically inspired six-episode series with Joe Hampson, which formerly went by the working title Mae and George and is now called Feel Good. It aired on E4 in the UK and Netflix around the world, and follows Martin’s life as a comedian and recovering addict, and the complications of her new relationship with girlfriend George. Friends’ Lisa Kudrow guest stars. A second series is on the way.

Hitmen

Comedy double act Mel Giedroyc and Sue Perkins get in on the Killing Eve game as contract killers in this new Sky series. Unlike Villanelle though, these two are decidedly unsmooth operators. Their hits are, according to the press release, “inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics.” Sherlock’s Amanda Abbington co-stars, along with Francis Barber and Johnny Vegas. Series two is on the way.

In My Skin

Kayleigh Llewellyn’s autobiographically inspired 2018 pilot is now a four-part comedy series for the BBC. It’s the raw but ultimately uplifting story of teenager Bethan’s attempts to conceal from her schoolfriends a chaotic homelife with a mother sectioned in a mental health facility and a dad in the Hell’s Angels. Here’s a clip from the Comedy Slice to whet your appetite. 

Intelligence

Available to stream on Sky and NOW TV

Last year saw Rob Lowe in Lincolnshire, now prepare for David Schwimmer in Cheltenham. The Friends actor and director starring in a six-part Sky One comedy as a “maverick NSA agent” working in the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters. He’s joined by series writer Nick Mohammed, in the role of an inept computer analyst tasked with tackling cyber-crime. Series two is on the way.

Kate And Koji

Filmed in Herne Bay, Kent, this six-episode ITV comedy stars Brenda Blethyn as Kate, the owner of a seaside café who strikes up a friendship with asylum seeker Koji, played by Jimmy Akingbola. Those two are joined by The Inbetweeners’ Blake Harrison, playing Kate’s nephew, and Meera Syal as the local GP in a timely modern story with a heart.

King Gary

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

Murder In Successville and Action Team’s Tom Davis and James De Frond teamed up again to write and direct prime time BBC One sitcom King Gary, which debuted in 2020 and was swiftly recommissioned for a second series. You may have caught the pilot episode, which aired over Christmas 2018, introducing Davis’ character – London builder Gary King, a man-child who loves his family, his suburban community, and really loves a B.B.Q – his parents played by The Fast Show’s Simon Day and Doctor Who’s Camille Coduri, and his unforgettable wife Terri, played by the very funny Laura Checkley.

Meet The Richardsons

Airing on Dave and available to stream weekly on UK TV Play

Married comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont starred as heightened versions of themselves in Meet The Richardsons for Dave, written by Beaumont and Car Share’s Tim Reid. Inspired by Beaumont’s appearances on Richardsons’ Ultimate Worrier series for Dave, the series comically documents the couple’s parenting and relationship woes.

Mister Winner

Following a successful Comedy Playhouse pilot, Spencer Jones (Upstart Crow) returned as the hapless Leslie Winner for a six-episode series on BBC One. Joining Jones will be Shaun Williamson and Lucy Pearman, in a loveable comedy about ���an eternally optimistic klutz with his heart in the right place”. If you’ve yet to see Jones’ excellent BBC iPlayer short series The Mind Of Herbert Clunkerdunk, get involved without delay.

My Left Nut

Available to stream on BBC iPlayer

Coming to BBC Three is an autobiographically inspired three-part comedy-drama from Irish writers Michael Patrick and Oisin Kearney, adapted from their acclaimed stage play. Starring Sinead Keenan (Little Boy Blue, Being Human) with newcomer Nathan Quinn-O’Rawe, it’s the story of a Belfast teenager who discovers a lump on his testicle but finds himself unable to tell those around him. A relatable, entertaining teen comedy with an important healthcare message. 

Out of Her Mind

An established name on screen and the live circuit, comedian Sara Pascoe is the latest comic to write and star in her own sitcom (joining the ranks of Roisin Conaty, Aisling Bea, Josh Widdicombe and more). Her as-yet untitled series is being produced for BBC Two by Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s production company, Stolen Picture. It’s about “family, relationships and biology,” according to the press release, and will combine eccentric characters with surreal interludes and factual segments. Read about the best Netflix stand-up specials here.

Sandylands

Following on from 2019’s Isle of Wight-set family comedy The Cockfields, Gold has commissioned a second three-part original sitcom. This one’s also set on the UK coast, and tells the story of a successful Londoner who returns to her home town and reconnects with old friends and old crushes when her local businessman father disappears at sea. Sanjeev Bhaskar, David Walliams, Sophie Thompson, Hugh Bonneville and Natalie Dew star.

Semi-Detached

The pilot episode for comedy Semi-Detached, about a hapless fortysomething aired in January 2019, followed by a full series. It was written by actors David Crow and Oliver Maltman and boasted a strong comedy cast including Lee Mack, Ellie White, Samantha Spiro, Clive Russell and Patrick Baladi. The twist with this one is that all the action unfurls in real time.

The Duchess

In addition to her Netflix stand-up specials, comedian Katherine Ryan made a six-part autobiographical comedy for the streaming service. Though a familiar face on screen, this marks the first scripted series Ryan has written and executive-produced. In it, she plays “a fashionable disruptive single mother living in London”, inspired by Ryan’s own experience raising her daughter in the capital after moving here from her native Canada.

The First Team

Iain Morris and Damon Beesley, aka The Inbetweeners creators, have written a six-part half-hour sitcom for BBC Two. Formerly under the working title of Afternoons, it’s now called The First Team and details the off-pitch adventures of three Premier League footballers playing for a fictional side, “three young men who just happen to have a very stressful job in the public eye,” according to the writers. The cast includes Arrested Development‘s Will Arnett as the team’s eccentric American chairman, alongside Theo Barklam Biggs, Shaquille Ali-Yebuah, Jack McMullen, Jake Short and Chris Geere.

The Kemps: All True

Remember how much everybody loved that Bros doc? Well now BBC Four comedy is planning to capture that same lightning in a bottle with mockumentary The Kemps: All True, following the travails of another pair of pop star brothers in Spandau Ballet’s Gary and Martin Kemp. The one-off comedy from Brian Pern‘s Rhys Thomas will track the brothers as they record a new studio album. Read more about it here at the BBC.

The Trouble With Maggie Cole

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Commissioned in March 2019 by ITV under the working title Glass Houses is a six-part hour-long comedy series starring Dawn French, Mark Heap, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Vicki Pepperdine and more. It’s about the aftermath of a loose-lipped radio interview with French’s Maggie, the village gossip who spills her neighbours’ secrets on air. It comes written by Shameless and Benidorm’s Mark Brotherhood and aired on ITV1 in March.

Truth Seekers

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost’s latest collaboration is a comedy horror series for Amazon Prime Video. Filming began in September 2019 on Truth Seekers, which follows a group of paranormal investigator hobbyists who film their ghost sighting escapades for the online community, and stumble into some very strange business that could end life as we know it. There’s a great comedy cast including Pegg and Frost, including Susan Wokoma, Julian Barratt, Samson Kayo, Morgana Robinson, Kate Nash, Kevin Eldon and Malcolm McDowell.  

Two Weeks To Live

Written by Cheat’s Gaby Hull, this six-episode Sky comedy is the story of misfit Kim, a young girl raised to survive in the wilderness, who re-enters society on a secret mission to honour her dead father’s memory. Game of Thrones’ Maisie Williams plays Kim, who becomes entangled in a prank-gone-wrong plot involving gangsters, a bag of cash and the police. With Kim’s survival skills, don’t expect her to come quietly…

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