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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. The 2001 series features the episodes Knife and Wife, Orcadia, Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer and Jimmy Carr's World of…Corporate Videos featuring Jimmy Carr. The 2008 series features the episodes Headwreckers, Mr and Mrs Fandango, Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits, Karl Pilkington: Satisfied Fool, 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, Totally Tom and Rick and Peter.
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Episode 1 - Anna & Katy
Release Date: 2011-09-02New series. A series showcasing up-and-coming comic talent, beginning with a sketch show by double act Anna Crilly and Katy Wix. Featuring the most popular soap opera in Germany and Eamonn Holmes's latest game show Pointer, plus a guest appearance by Lee Mack
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Episode 2 - Totally Tom
Release Date: 2011-09-09Sketch show written and performed by Tom Palmer and Tom Stourton set in an unusual and often macabre metropolis, which is inhabited by an array of characters including a pair of cocaine-fuelled `posh girls'. There is also a police officer with an over-enthusiastic sense of drama and Scottish brothers locked in a cycle of poverty
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Episode 3 - Rick and Peter
Release Date: 2011-09-16Rick Edwards and Peter Mitchell deliver a satirical exploration of TV presenting by playing caricatures of themselves. After Rick makes a regrettable gag while working, he and Peter have to undertake a crash-course in political correctness
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Episode 6 - Kabadasses
Release Date: 2011-11-13