Jeremy Hardy to feature in various comedy shows including "Blackadder Goes Forth" (1989), and has presented a television documentary about the political background to the English Civil War as well as an edition of "Top of the Pops" in 1996. He was one of the two team captains on the BBC Two game show "If I Ruled the World" that ran for two series in 1998–1999. He has become best known for his work on BBC Radio 4, particularly on "The News Quiz", "I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue" and his long-running series of monologues "Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation". His
Radio comedy are WSRN's "Audience of Two", Garrison Keillor's work on Minnesota Public Radio: "A Prairie Home Companion" and "Comedy College", and NPR's "Car Talk", a comedy show thinly disguised as car advice, and "Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!". Shows featuring comedic music are also popular; one of the better known national comedy music programs is the long-running weekly program hosted by Dr. Demento, and several other local stations (mostly college radio, freeform and eclectic formats) have similar programs. Several networks program 24 hours a day of stand-up comedy routines; several channels on the Sirius XM Radio platforms focus on this format,