Channel 4 Renews Comedy Thing YouTube Channel With 'Pun Battle'
By Max Goldbart
Published on April 15, 2026.
Channel 4 is reprising its A Comedy Thing YouTube channel for a second year with new formats including Pun Battle. The channel, which publishes weekly programming for YouTube with up-and-coming comics, has delivered 6.5 million views on the site and has seen 165,000 hours of watch time with an audience mostly under the age of 35. The second year will feature new faces like Eric Rushton, Jin Hao, and Kyla Cobbler. New formats include The Lying Game, which comics must tell an anecdote about the same topic and new formats like Pun. The news comes ahead of a Channel 4 comedy event in London that will showcase British comedy talent.
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