Patrick Kielty to front C4 stand-up comedy show

Patrick Kielty to front C4 stand-up comedy show
Patrick Kielty to front C4 stand-up comedy show (Image credit: PA Wire/Press Association Images)

Patrick Kielty is to host a new post-pub stand-up show for Channel 4 as a satirical reaction to the week's news. Stand Up For The Week will feature regular guests such as Rich Hall and Kevin Bridges when the six-part series is screened on Fridays at 11pm. Channel 4 said it will be 'intelligent, spiky and, above all, outrageously alternative'. The shows will be filmed at the KoKo club in Camden, north London, in front of a live audience which will also include celebrities and politicians. Each week a topical public figure or guest will also be put on the spot. Other regulars will be Jack Whitehall and Andi Osho. Channel 4's head of entertainment, Justin Gorman, said: "What better way to reflect on the week, than through the razor-sharp wit of some of the nation's most talented stand-ups? "Stand Up For The Week will be raucous and close to the bone."

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.