Stand Up for the Week
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Stand Up for the Week is a British television comedy series that was shown on Channel 4, featuring stand-up comedy performances reflecting topical events. The show began in June 2010 with a six-episode series aired on Friday nights,[1] moving to Saturday nights for the second series which began in March 2011.[2] The first series was hosted by Patrick Kielty, with regular performers Jack Whitehall, Kevin Bridges, Andi Osho and Rich Hall. Bridges replaced Kielty as host for the second series, with Jon Richardson joining as a regular performer.[3] Richardson took over as host of the show for the third series which aired in late 2011, and aside from Rich Hall returning, an otherwise entirely new group of regular performers joined the show: Seann Walsh, Sara Pascoe, Josh Widdicombe and Paul Chowdhry.[4] For the fourth series Andrew Lawrence replaced Rich Hall.[5] For the fifth series, Chowdhry took over as host and new regulars Angela Barnes, Simon Evans and Romesh Ranganathan replaced Chowdhry, Lawrence and Pascoe.[6] In October 2015 Channel 4 confirmed there are no plans to produce more episodes of the show.[7]
Stand Up for the Week | |
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Presented by | Patrick Kielty Kevin Bridges Jon Richardson Paul Chowdhry |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 5 |
No. of episodes | 42 |
Production | |
Production locations | KOKO, Camden, London Clapham Grand, Clapham, London |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | Open Mike Productions |
Original release | |
Network | Channel 4 |
Release | 25 June 2010 (2010-06-25) ā 20 December 2013 (2013-12-20) |