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. Comic Relief
34. The Comic Strip Presents...
35. Cool It
36. Coppers And Co!
37. Count Duckula
38. Craig Goes Mad In Melbourne
39. Divided We Stand
40. Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy
41. Don't Wait Up
42. Double First
43. Everyone A Winner
44. Executive Stress
45. Fascinating Aida
46. First Of The Summer Wine
47. French And Saunders
48. Friday Night Live
49. A Gentleman's Club
50. Gentry
51. Gruey
52. Hale And Pace
53. Help!
54. Hi-De-Hi!
55. Home James!
56. Hot Metal
57. The Importance Of Being Earnest
58. Incident On The Line
59. Jake's Journey
60. John Sessions
61. John Wells And The Three Wise Men
62. The Kate Robbins Show
63. The Kenny Everett Television Show
64. A Kind Of Living
65. Last Of The Summer Wine
66. The Laughter Show
67. The Lenny Henry Show
68. The Lenny Henry Special
69. Les Girls
70. Life Without George
71. Little And Large
72. Live From The Palladium
73. Lucky Sunil
74. The Management
75. Me & My Girl
76. Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
77. Minder
78. The Morecambe And Wise Classics
79. Mr H Is Late
80. Mr Majeika
81. My Husband And I
82. Natural Causes
83. Never The Twain
84. News At Twelve
85. The New Statesman
86. No Frills
87. Number 27
88. Once In A Lifetime
89. Only Fools And Horses
90. Palace Hill
91. Pastoral Care
92. Playing For Real
93. Rab C. Nesbitt
94. Red Dwarf
95. The Refuge
96. The River
97. Room At The Bottom
98. The Rory Bremner Show
99. The Russ Abbot Show
100. Scotch And Wry
101. Shelley
102. Singles
103. Small World
104. Sorry!
105. Spin Off
106. Spitting Image
107. Square Deal
108. The Steamie
109. Streets Apart
110. That's Love
111. This Is David Lander
112. Thompson
113. Twenty-Two Years Of The Two Ronnies
114. The Two Of Us
115. Valentine Park
116. A Very Peculiar Practice
117. Watching
118. Way Upstream
119. Who Dares Wins...
120. A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
121. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
122. Wife Begins At 40
123. The World According To Smith And Jones
124. Wyatt's Watchdogs
125. Yes, Prime Minister
126. You Must Be The Husband
127. 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. Huddwinks
9. I Should Say So
10. Just A Minute
11. Ken Dodd's Easter Special
12. King Street Junior
13. Lenin Of The Rovers
14. Little Blighty On The Down
15. Live On Arrival
16. The Mausoleum Club
17. Mind Your Own Business!
18. My Music
19. My Word!
20. The News Huddlines
21. The News Quiz
22. Olympiod 88
23. Pull The Other One!
24. Radio Fun: The Story Of Radio Comedy
25. Saturday Night Fry
26. Second Thoughts
27. Thirty Minutes Worth
28. Uncle Mort's North Country
29. The Unfair Quiz
30. Up The Garden Path
31. Week Ending
32. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
33. 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