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 Billy Connolly
4. 30 Years Of Laughter
5. The Adam And Joe Show
6. Adam's Family Tree
7. Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
8. Alan Tyler's Big Night In
9. Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
10. Armstrong And Miller
11. As Time Goes By
12. An Audience With...
13. Babes In The Wood
14. Barking
15. The Ben Elton Show
16. The Best Of British
17. Big Train
18. Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
19. Birds Of A Feather
20. Blackadder
21. Blankety Blank
22. Bob Monkhouse On Campus
23. Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
24. Bodger & Badger
25. Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
26. The British Comedy Awards
27. Carry On Darkly
28. ChuckleVision
29. Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
30. Cold Feet
31. Comedy Nation
32. The Comedy Network
33. Comedy Store
34. The Comic Strip Presents...
35. The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
36. The Creatives
37. Dear John: A Tribute To John Wells
38. Denis Norden's Laughter File
39. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
40. dinnerladies
41. Dressing For Breakfast
42. Drop The Dead Donkey
43. Duck Patrol
44. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
45. Europigeon
46. Faith In The Future
47. Families At War
48. Fantasy Football
49. Father Ted
50. First On Four
51. The Freddie Starr Show
52. French And Saunders
53. Funny Women
54. Gagging For It
55. Game On
56. The Generation Game
57. Get Real
58. Goodness Gracious Me
59. Goodnight Sweetheart
60. Grafters
61. Hale And Pace
62. Harry Enfield & Chums
63. Harry Hill
64. Have I Got News For You
65. Heartburn Hotel
66. Heroes Of Comedy
67. Holding The Baby
68. Homie & Away
69. How Do You Want Me?
70. Hububb
71. Humdrum
72. If I Ruled The World
73. In Exile
74. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
75. In The Red
76. Is It Bill Bailey?
77. Is It Legal?
78. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
79. The Jackie Mason Show
80. Jack & The Beanstalk
81. Jeff Green Up West
82. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
83. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
84. Jim Davidson - So Far
85. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
86. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
87. Jonathan Creek
88. Keeping Mum
89. Kiss Me Kate
90. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
91. Last Of The Summer Wine
92. The Last Salute
93. Lenny Goes To Town
94. A Loose Canon
95. Lost In France
96. A Many Splintered Thing
97. March In Windy City
98. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
99. Men Behaving Badly
100. Microsoap
101. The Mrs Merton Show
102. My Summer With Des
103. My Wonderful Life
104. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
105. Neville's Island
106. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
107. Oddbods
108. Only An Excuse?
109. Operation Good Guys
110. A Prince Among Men
111. Rab C. Nesbitt
112. Renford Rejects
113. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
114. Rex The Runt
115. Roger Roger
116. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
117. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
118. The Royle Family
119. Satellite City
120. The Saturday Night Armistice
121. The Secret Policeman's Ball
122. Sermon From St Albion's
123. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
124. Smith & Jones
125. So Graham Norton
126. The Stand Up Show
127. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
128. Stanley Baxter In Person
129. Stella Street
130. Stressed Eric
131. Ted & Ralph
132. That Peter Kay Thing
133. They Think It's All Over
134. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
135. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
136. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
137. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
138. Tottenham 2
139. Trigger Happy TV
140. Turning Tricks
141. TV Offal
142. Unfinished Business
143. (Un)natural Acts
144. The Vicar Of Dibley
145. Victoria Wood Still Standing
146. Vinyl Tap
147. What's A Carry On?
148. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
149. You Are Here
150. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
151. 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