About this season
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.
Episodes (10)
1. The Richard Taylor Interviews
Aired 1 November 2001
2. Orcadia
Aired 8 November 2001
3. Shut Up and Dance
Aired 15 November 2001
4. Origen's Wake
Aired 15 November 2001
5. Jimmy Carr's World of ... Corporate Videos
Aired 22 November 2001
6. Model, Actress, Whatever
Aired 29 November 2001
7. Knife & Wife
Aired 6 December 2001
8. Turn the World Down
Aired 13 December 2001
9. Daydream Believers: Brand New Beamer
Aired 20 December 2001