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The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale is a weekly half-hour topical series that takes a sharp, absurdist look at pop culture and news from across the globe. It's a fast and funny distillation of everything people are talking about that week. Featuring celebrity guests, comedy sketches, and insane video clips from the worldwide realms of TV, sports, politics, celebrity culture, and every corner of the internet, The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale is destination viewing for comedy lovers, or people who just really, really like green screens.

John Mulaney unleashes his one-of-a-kind comedic genius on late night with this spontaneous and sidesplitting live series.

This is a news based comedy-quiz show hosted by Tom Gleisner. The show features a panel of celebrities who take a comic look at current topical news.

Alien News Desk is a weekly, topical animated series set in an extraterrestrial newsroom, which covers up-to-the-minute news and commentary about the universe's most baffling species - the inscrutable Humans of Planet Earth.

An extended version of the satirical news quiz, Have I Got News for You, featuring more of the stuff that wouldn't fit into the regular programme. The regular edition began on BBC Two on 28 September 1990, however it wasn't until the spring of 2007 for series 33 that the previously sporadic extended version of the show, which aired as a weekend repeat, became a permanent fixture and was given the name Have I Got a Bit More News for You. Over an hour's worth of material is recorded for each programme for broadcast the following day, allowing the programme to remain topical while the BBC's lawyers have time to request cuts of potentially defamatory material.

Tracey Ullman returns to British screens with her unique take on some of the extraordinary characters who live in, or are visiting, the global hub that is the UK.

Romesh Ranganathan, joined by celebrity guests and the Ranganation, his very own focus group of 25 members of the public, takes a funny, topical look at modern Britain.

Satirical news show hosted by Nish Kumar returns to TV. Late Night Mash is a continuation of the successful show The Mash Report, which aired on BBC Two for four series. Nish Kumar is joined by Rachel Parris and Ellie Taylor as they deliver topical insights and fake news reports from the dystopian parallel universe we affectionately call "modern Britain". News correspondents, including Geoff Norcott, Catherine Bohart, Fin Taylor, Michael Spicer, Steve N Allen and Ahir Shah, will front acerbic sketches and reports about all the things happening in the world that probably shouldn't, as well as all the things that aren't happening that probably should.

Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS.

At 10pm on a Sunday night in 1984, Peter Fluck and Roger Law's caricatures of the famous were unveiled to British audiences. Frequently crass and tasteless, but just as often hilarious, the caricatures of Spitting Image were to offend, outrage and amuse for another 12 years, before being laid to rest in 1996, making it the most successful adult orientated puppet television programme ever. Its format, a satirical comedy sketch show with latex puppets rather than live actors, was inventive and at times surreal. Some of Spitting Image's sketches were shot and edited only hours before the show went on the airwaves, thus ensuring a fresh up-to-date topicality. Spitting Image preyed on well known faces, from the Royals to MPs. In spite of its detractors, over 12 million viewers (a quarter of England's adult population) watched Spitting Image on Central Independent Television, a subsidiary of ITV. Its spin-off records, books, comics and videos sold in the millions. It won an International Emmy for "Outstanding Popular Arts" program in the 1985-86 season, and spawned a Number 1 hit in 'The Chicken Song'.

Comedians of all stripes, from rising stars to established legends, pop into New York's legendary Comedy Cellar every week for a topical set.

Wilmore returns with a new topical comedy series on Peacock. The show promises to deliver hilarious and insightful commentary on current events. With his signature wit and charm, Larry Wilmore tackles the issues that matter most, from politics to pop culture. Don't miss this must-see comedy series!

There's no target too weird, complicated, silly, or dumb as Australian comedians send up humanity in this six-part satirical sketch comedy series.

This is a topical puppet animation sketch show that pokes fun at different pop stars, politicians and television stars. The show depicts our most talked about celebrities in a way they have never been seen before.

Tracey Breaks the News is a timely and witty TV series where Tracey Ullman uses her versatile characters to react to the news of the moment. Filmed close to transmission, the show offers a fresh and hilarious perspective on current events that will keep you entertained and informed.

The offices of Globelink News TV was the setting of this topical sitcom. The news station had just been acquired by a multi-millionaire media tycoon who orders that the company should start taking a sensationalist stance to the news.

Matt Berry shines "a weird and wonderful light onto a different topic" each week.

A super pure tragicomedy rosary of pious prayers bringing unity, joy, and excellent living to all.

Topical comedy show. Tim McGarry, Colin Murphy, Jake O'Kane, Neil Delamere and a guest celebrity take a satirical look at what has made the news over the past week.

In "Parlamentet" we see the best Swedish comedians in disguise try dirty tricks on politicians and give their own obstinate solutions to Sweden's problems. After several seasons with Hans Rosenfeld as host, this spring Henrik Schyffert took over. In the blue team we meet Sissela Kyle, Helge Skoog, Johan Wahlström and Mikael Tornving. In the red team we meet Johan Ulveson, Henrik Hjelt, Annika Lantz and Babben Larsson. "Parlamentet" is based on the original idea "If I ruled the world" from Hat Trick.

The All India Bakchod Boys are back with a brand new show that's, wait for it, NOT a roast! Watch Rohan, Ashish, Tanmay and Khamba take on issues that the nation really wants to know about in On Air With AIB in Hindi and English.