Tired of comedy repeats? Don’t miss “Free Radio” (8:30 p.m., VH1), a loosely scripted improvisational comedy combining the cracked logic of “The Office” and the celebrity cameo appeal of “Extras.”

Lance Krall (“Joe Schmo”) stars as Lance, an intern without a clue at a local radio station. When their top morning DJ leaves without warning for satellite radio, necessity throws Lance into the mix, and his inept delivery, uninformed questions and nervous interruption touch a chord with jaded listeners. Cheap and indifferent corporate management turns Lance into a star in his own right, ballyhooing him as “The Moron in the Morning.”

Every episode features Lance trading uncomfortable questions with at least three bold-faced names. The first batch may make you mourn for our scuttled TV season. Kiefer Sutherland arrives to tout the seventh (and now postponed) season of “24.” Angela Kinsey, who plays Angela on the strike-bound “Office,” has to contend with Lance’s complete inability to comprehend the documentary style of that show. It’s a sly way for Krall, the star of a single-camera comedy, to bash audiences for their unwillingness to embrace loosely scripted fare. “Why,” he asks a patient, if slightly incredulous Kinsey, “don’t you make it more like ‘Friends'”?

In a third botched interview, he confuses character actor Luis Guzman with the late Vincent Schiavelli and insists that Guzman was great in “Ghost,” despite the actor’s heated denials and threats of violence.

Look for a who’s who of comic actors to take their turns tangling with Lance’s brazen idiocy over nine episodes, including Ray Romano, Tony Shalhoub, Howie Mandell, Bob Saget, Fred Willard and Mary Lynn Rajskub. Rajskub and Krall were both stars of the summer 2001 sketch show “The Downer Channel.” If you blinked, you probably missed it.

Krall does a remarkable job here of being consistently clueless while always keeping his dim-witted interjections fresh, unexpected, unsettling and uncomfortably revealing. His every-slob appeal owes much to Howard Stern, who, like the fictional star DJ on “Free Radio,” has decamped for satellite.

¢ Comedy of a different sort and pedigree unfolds on “That Mitchell and Webb Look” (8:20 p.m., BBC America). A cult hit in Britain, the team of David Mitchell and Robert Webb have been working together since their days at Cambridge University. They star in a rapid-fire succession of sketches that range from dismissive and deadpan parodies of HGTV-style real estate and decorating shows to a sustained and evolving bit about two veteran sports announcers who have been covering billiards and working with each other just a tad too long. Another strange and amusing sketch involves an angry young man with the telekinetic ability to move objects with his mind – as long as they’re biscuits, or cookies, as they are known on this side of the Atlantic.

¢ Hooked on “Meerkat Manor”? Don’t miss “Lemur Kingdom” (7 p.m. and 7:30 p.m., Animal Planet), the life-and-death struggles of two bands of masked primates on a small patch of the island of Madagascar.

“Escape to Chimp Eden” (8:30 p.m., Animal Planet) may sound like a soap, but it’s a more traditional nature series, following a naturalist as he races to care for and rescue endangered chimps. “Clinically Wild: Alaska” (9:30 p.m., Animal Planet) follows, featuring vets caring for pets, work animals and wild critters in the frozen north.

Tonight’s other highlights

¢ Paul and Gina disagree on “In Treatment” (8:30 p.m., HBO).

¢ Scheduled on “20/20” (9 p.m., ABC): A 12-year-old plane-crash survivor recalls his ordeal.

¢ The daytime makeover series “10 Years Younger” (9 p.m., TLC) movies to prime time.