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Platform for new comedy talent that has helped launch the careers of top performers such as Ricky Gervais, Dom Joly and Jimmy Carr, as well as uncovering such gems as Modern Toss and Fonejacker
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Ricky Gervais tries to make it in showbusiness

First shown: Wed 8 Sep 1999 | 23 mins

A documentary that tells the story of would-be comic Trevor Evans

First shown: Thu 9 Sep 1999 | 25 mins

Comedy trio Electric Eel play three unsavoury, down-market estate agents

First shown: Thu 16 Sep 1999 | 24 mins

Lord Newmarket goes to Hollywood to pitch his ludicrous film ideas

First shown: Wed 11 Oct 2000 | 22 mins

This epsiode's animated cartoon special guests are Madonna, Robbie Williams and Travis

First shown: Tue 17 Oct 2000 | 11 mins

The middle-class Andersons are a bit dysfunctional...

First shown: Wed 8 Nov 2000 | 25 mins

Two young women create an elaborate and complicated fantasy experience

First shown: Thu 8 Nov 2001 | 25 mins

A young boy blackmails his mum's friend's new boyfriend, who happens to be his teacher

First shown: Thu 13 Dec 2001 | 23 mins

A Sci-Fi comedy mixed with a dose of satire and gross-out humour.

First shown: Thu 20 Dec 2001 | 24 mins

Delving into the abstract world of The Pooters book club

First shown: Fri 1 Feb 2002 | 22 mins

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Quick-fire (and occasionally slow motion) genre-defying comedy, set in a surreal hospital but lacking medical content. From the award-winning team behind Smack the Pony.

Jimmy Carr hosts the anarchic game show mash-up with the help of Rachel Riley and Susie Dent, as a barrage of comedians take on the numbers and letters

Jimmy Carr hosts the irreverent comedy panel show based on opinion polls. So what's better - kittens or Christmas? Let the Great British public decide...

Psychedelic character-based comedy show half filmed and half animated, with music provided by Kasabian's Sergio Pizzorno

Jimmy Carr hosts the game show where paying attention pays off, as players answer questions that have just been written, about things that have just happened during the show, in a bid to win £25,000

Jimmy Carr hosts the Big Fat comedy panel shows that challenge a dazzling array of celebrity panellists about what they know. And there are a lot of questions that need answering...

Jimmy Carr hosts the game show where brave contestants attempt to rise above such trivial distractions as cactus buzzers, nude middle-aged dancers and electrocution

Best mates Maggie and Eddie have stuck together through thick and thin. But as Maggie's bipolar disorder rears its head, can their friendship survive? Comedy starring Nicola Coughlan and Lydia West.