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.

Cast

Miranda Hart

Stephen Merchant

James

Kristen Schaal

Penelope

David Mitchell

Baron Amstrad

Kayvan Novak

Gary Lewis

Gregor Munroe

Peter Slater

Various Characters

Arthur Sturridge

Alex Zane

Katy Brand

S

Sian Gibson

Alison

Peter Kay

Narrator / Pearl Harman / Paul le Roy / Alan McLarty / Matthew Kelly / Johnny Utah aka Craig

Mark Williams

Mr. Anderson

D

Daniel Scott-Croxford

Duncan Anderson

Paddy McGuinness

Pump Attendant Terry

A

Adam G. Goodwin

Mark Devlin

M

Molly Seymour

David Reed

Various

M

Michael Redmond

Rescue Man

N

Nadia Kamil

Various Characters

Seasons

101 episodes

Season 11998 · 11 episodes

Season 21999 · 11 episodes

Season 32000 · 12 episodes

Season 42001 · 10 episodes

Season 52002 · 8 episodes

Season 62004 · 7 episodes

Season 72005 · 8 episodes

Season 82006 · 8 episodes

Season 92007 · 8 episodes

Season 102008 · 6 episodes