British comedy in 1998

• The Royle Family was Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
• Tommy Tiernan won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1998

Renford Rejects

The 99p Challenge

The Now Show

All new TV comedy from 1998

1. The 11 O'Clock Show
2. 2point4 Children
3. 30 Years Of Laughter
4. The Adam And Joe Show
5. Adam's Family Tree
6. Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
7. Alan Tyler's Big Night In
8. Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
9. Armstrong And Miller
10. As Time Goes By
11. An Audience With...
12. Babes In The Wood
13. Barking
14. The Ben Elton Show
15. The Best Of British
16. Big Train
17. Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
18. Birds Of A Feather
19. Blackadder
20. Blankety Blank
21. Bob Monkhouse On Campus
22. Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
23. Bodger & Badger
24. Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
25. The British Comedy Awards
26. Carry On Darkly
27. ChuckleVision
28. Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
29. Cold Feet
30. Comedy Nation
31. The Comedy Network
32. Comedy Store
33. The Comic Strip Presents...
34. The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
35. The Creatives
36. Dear John: A Tribute To John Wells
37. Denis Norden's Laughter File
38. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
39. dinnerladies
40. Dressing For Breakfast
41. Drop The Dead Donkey
42. Duck Patrol
43. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
44. Europigeon
45. Faith In The Future
46. Families At War
47. Fantasy Football
48. Father Ted
49. The Freddie Starr Show
50. French And Saunders
51. Funny Women
52. Gagging For It
53. Game On
54. The Generation Game
55. Get Real
56. Goodness Gracious Me
57. Goodnight Sweetheart
58. Grafters
59. Hale And Pace
60. Harry Enfield & Chums
61. Harry Hill
62. Have I Got News For You
63. Heartburn Hotel
64. Heroes Of Comedy
65. Holding The Baby
66. Homie & Away
67. How Do You Want Me?
68. Hububb
69. Humdrum
70. If I Ruled The World
71. In Exile
72. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
73. In The Red
74. Is It Bill Bailey?
75. Is It Legal?
76. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
77. The Jackie Mason Show
78. Jack & The Beanstalk
79. Jeff Green Up West
80. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
81. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
82. Jim Davidson - So Far
83. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
84. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
85. Jonathan Creek
86. Keeping Mum
87. Kiss Me Kate
88. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
89. Last Of The Summer Wine
90. The Last Salute
91. Lenny Goes To Town
92. A Loose Canon
93. Lost In France
94. A Many Splintered Thing
95. March In Windy City
96. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
97. Men Behaving Badly
98. Microsoap
99. The Mrs Merton Show
100. My Summer With Des
101. My Wonderful Life
102. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
103. Neville's Island
104. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
105. Oddbods
106. Only An Excuse?
107. Operation Good Guys
108. A Prince Among Men
109. Rab C. Nesbitt
110. Renford Rejects
111. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
112. Rex The Runt
113. Roger Roger
114. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
115. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
116. The Royle Family
117. Satellite City
118. The Saturday Night Armistice
119. The Secret Policeman's Ball
120. Sermon From St Albion's
121. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
122. Smith & Jones
123. So Graham Norton
124. The Stand Up Show
125. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
126. Stanley Baxter In Person
127. Stella Street
128. Stressed Eric
129. Ted & Ralph
130. That Peter Kay Thing
131. They Think It's All Over
132. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
133. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
134. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
135. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
136. Tottenham 2
137. Trigger Happy TV
138. Turning Tricks
139. TV Offal
140. Unfinished Business
141. (Un)natural Acts
142. The Vicar Of Dibley
143. Victoria Wood Still Standing
144. Vinyl Tap
145. What's A Carry On?
146. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
147. You Are Here
148. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
149. The Zig And Zag Show

All new radio comedy from 1998

1. 4 At The Store
2. The 99p Challenge
3. The Alan Davies Show
4. The (Almost) Accidental Adventures Of Bell And Todd
5. Armstrong And Miller
6. As Time Goes By
7. Babblewick Hall
8. Bag-A-Bagel
9. Ballylenon
10. The Beaton Generation
11. The Big Town All Stars
12. Blue Jam
13. The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
14. Bookcases
15. Bussmann And Quantick Kingsize
16. Chambers
17. The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor
18. Chewin' The Fat
19. Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
20. Choice Grenfell
21. The Cradleys
22. The Curried Goat Show
23. Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years
24. Double Trouble
25. The Emerald Green Show
26. Facts And Fancies
27. Five Squeezy Pieces
28. The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
29. The Ghost Train
30. Girlies
31. The Goldfish Bowl
32. Goodness Gracious Me
33. The Griff Rhys Jones Show
34. Hancock And Son
35. Hearing With Hegley
36. If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?
37. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
38. In The Chair
39. Just A Minute
40. King Street Junior
41. Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
42. Like They've Never Been Gone
43. Love 40-New Balls Please
44. Mad Man Blue
45. The Mark Steel Revolution
46. May To December
47. The Motion Show
48. The News Huddlines
49. The News Quiz
50. No Commitments
51. The Now Show
52. Old Dog And The Partridge
53. Old Harry's Game
54. On Baby Street
55. Our Man At Wembley
56. Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
57. Rent
58. Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
59. Showing Up
60. The Shuttleworths
61. The Smith Lectures
62. Spangles 'n' Tights
63. Spike At 80
64. Stand Up Two
65. Stereonation
66. Talking Comedy
67. Turns Of The Century
68. The Very World Of Milton Jones
69. Visiting Julia
70. Wannabe
71. The Way It Is
72. Week Ending
73. World Of Pub

British comedy films released in 1998

1. Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis
2. Divorcing Jack
3. Food Of Love
4. Girls' Night
5. If Only...
6. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
7. My Son The Fanatic
8. Sliding Doors
9. Stiff Upper Lips
10. Still Crazy
11. Up 'N' Under
12. What Rats Won't Do