Comedy Lab

Comedy Lab
Genre	Comedy
Created by	Laurence Rickard George Sawyer
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of seasons	10
Production
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Room 5
Broadcast
Original channel	Channel 4/E4
Original airing	1 November 1998

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.^{[citation needed]}

The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife (featuring actor 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 features the episodes Headwreckers (featuring David McSavage), Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, 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 (featuring Anna Crilly and Katy Wix), Totally Tom and Rick and Peter (featuring Rick Edwards).

External links

• Comedy Lab at channel4.com
• Comedy Lab at the Internet Movie Database
• Comedy Lab at TV.com