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. Denis Norden's Laughter File
37. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
38. dinnerladies
39. Dressing For Breakfast
40. Drop The Dead Donkey
41. Duck Patrol
42. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
43. Europigeon
44. Faith In The Future
45. Families At War
46. Fantasy Football
47. Father Ted
48. The Freddie Starr Show
49. French And Saunders
50. Funny Women
51. Gagging For It
52. Game On
53. Get Real
54. Goodness Gracious Me
55. Goodnight Sweetheart
56. Grafters
57. Hale And Pace
58. Harry Enfield & Chums
59. Harry Hill
60. Have I Got News For You
61. Heartburn Hotel
62. Heroes Of Comedy
63. Holding The Baby
64. Homie & Away
65. How Do You Want Me?
66. Hububb
67. Humdrum
68. If I Ruled The World
69. In Exile
70. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
71. In The Red
72. Is It Bill Bailey?
73. Is It Legal?
74. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
75. The Jackie Mason Show
76. Jack & The Beanstalk
77. Jeff Green Up West
78. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
79. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
80. Jim Davidson - So Far
81. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
82. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
83. Jonathan Creek
84. Keeping Mum
85. Kiss Me Kate
86. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
87. Last Of The Summer Wine
88. The Last Salute
89. Lenny Goes To Town
90. A Loose Canon
91. Lost In France
92. A Many Splintered Thing
93. March In Windy City
94. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
95. Men Behaving Badly
96. Microsoap
97. The Mrs Merton Show
98. My Summer With Des
99. My Wonderful Life
100. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
101. Neville's Island
102. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
103. Oddbods
104. Only An Excuse?
105. Operation Good Guys
106. A Prince Among Men
107. Rab C. Nesbitt
108. Renford Rejects
109. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
110. Rex The Runt
111. Roger Roger
112. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
113. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
114. The Royle Family
115. Satellite City
116. The Saturday Night Armistice
117. Sermon From St Albion's
118. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
119. Smith & Jones
120. So Graham Norton
121. The Stand Up Show
122. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
123. Stanley Baxter In Person
124. Stella Street
125. Stressed Eric
126. Ted & Ralph
127. That Peter Kay Thing
128. They Think It's All Over
129. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
130. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
131. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
132. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
133. Tottenham 2
134. Trigger Happy TV
135. Turning Tricks
136. TV Offal
137. Unfinished Business
138. (Un)natural Acts
139. The Vicar Of Dibley
140. Victoria Wood Still Standing
141. Vinyl Tap
142. What's A Carry On?
143. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
144. You Are Here
145. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
146. 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