British comedy in 1988

• Jeremy Hardy won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
• Following an overdose, Carry On star Kenneth Williams was found dead in his flat

Notable comedies debuting in 1988

After Henry

Count Duckula

Rab C. Nesbitt

Red Dwarf

Whose Line Is It Anyway?

You Rang, M'Lord?

All new TV comedy from 1988

1. 1st Exposure
2. Abracadigance
3. After Henry
4. After Ten With Tarbuck
5. Alas Smith & Jones
6. Alexei Sayle's Stuff
7. All In Good Faith
8. 'Allo 'Allo!
9. And There's More
10. Andy Capp
11. An Audience With...
12. Beadle's About
13. The Beiderbecke Connection
14. The Benny Hill Show
15. Best Of British: Film Fun
16. Blackadder
17. Blankety Blank
18. Bobby Davro's TV Weekly
19. Bobby In Wonderland
20. Bread
21. The Brothers McGregor
22. Bruce And Ronnie
23. Brush Strokes
24. Cabaret At The Jongleurs
25. Cannon And Ball
26. Carrott Confidential
27. Casting Off
28. Chelmsford 123
29. ChuckleVision
30. City Lights
31. Clarence
32. Colin's Sandwich
33. The Comedy Crowd
34. Comic Relief
35. The Comic Strip Presents...
36. Cool It
37. Coppers And Co!
38. Count Duckula
39. Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne
40. Divided We Stand
41. Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy
42. Don't Wait Up
43. Double First
44. Everyone A Winner
45. Executive Stress
46. Fascinating Aida
47. First Of The Summer Wine
48. French And Saunders
49. Friday Night Live
50. A Gentleman's Club
51. Gentry
52. Gruey
53. Hale And Pace
54. Help!
55. Hi-De-Hi!
56. Home James!
57. Hot Metal
58. The Importance Of Being Earnest
59. Incident On The Line
60. Jake's Journey
61. John Sessions
62. John Wells And The Three Wise Men
63. The Kate Robbins Show
64. The Kenny Everett Television Show
65. A Kind Of Living
66. Last Of The Summer Wine
67. The Laughter Show
68. The Lenny Henry Show
69. The Lenny Henry Special
70. Les Girls
71. Life Without George
72. Little And Large
73. Live From The Palladium
74. Lucky Sunil
75. The Management
76. Me & My Girl
77. Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
78. Minder
79. The Morecambe And Wise Classics
80. Mr H Is Late
81. Mr Majeika
82. My Husband And I
83. Natural Causes
84. Never The Twain
85. News At Twelve
86. The New Statesman
87. No Frills
88. Number 27
89. Once In A Lifetime
90. Only Fools And Horses
91. Palace Hill
92. Pastoral Care
93. Playing For Real
94. Rab C. Nesbitt
95. Red Dwarf
96. The Refuge
97. The River
98. Room At The Bottom
99. The Rory Bremner Show
100. The Russ Abbot Show
101. Scotch And Wry
102. Shelley
103. Singles
104. Small World
105. Sorry!
106. Spin Off
107. Spitting Image
108. Square Deal
109. The Steamie
110. Streets Apart
111. That's Love
112. This Is David Lander
113. Thompson
114. Twenty-Two Years Of The Two Ronnies
115. The Two Of Us
116. Valentine Park
117. A Very Peculiar Practice
118. Watching
119. Way Upstream
120. Who Dares Wins...
121. A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
122. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
123. Wife Begins At 40
124. The World According To Smith And Jones
125. Wyatt's Watchdogs
126. Yes, Prime Minister
127. You Must Be The Husband
128. You Rang, M'Lord?

All new radio comedy from 1988

1. The Big Fun Show
2. Blandings On Radio 4
3. Blood And Bruises
4. Fallen Arches
5. Flying The Flag
6. The Goon Show
7. Hancock's Last Half Hour
8. Hey Rrradio!!!
9. Huddwinks
10. I Should Say So
11. Just A Minute
12. Ken Dodd's Easter Special
13. King Street Junior
14. Lenin Of The Rovers
15. Little Blighty On The Down
16. Live On Arrival
17. The Mausoleum Club
18. Mind Your Own Business!
19. My Music
20. My Word!
21. The News Huddlines
22. The News Quiz
23. Olympiod 88
24. Pull The Other One!
25. Radio Fun: The Story Of Radio Comedy
26. Saturday Night Fry
27. Second Thoughts
28. Thirty Minutes Worth
29. Uncle Mort's North Country
30. The Unfair Quiz
31. Up The Garden Path
32. Week Ending
33. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
34. Wise On The Wireless

British comedy films released in 1988

1. Buster
2. Consuming Passions
3. Drowning By Numbers
4. A Fish Called Wanda
5. Hawks
6. High Hopes
7. The Lair Of The White Worm
8. Soursweet