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. Get Real
55. Goodness Gracious Me
56. Goodnight Sweetheart
57. Grafters
58. Hale And Pace
59. Harry Enfield & Chums
60. Harry Hill
61. Have I Got News For You
62. Heartburn Hotel
63. Heroes Of Comedy
64. Holding The Baby
65. Homie & Away
66. How Do You Want Me?
67. Hububb
68. Humdrum
69. If I Ruled The World
70. In Exile
71. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
72. In The Red
73. Is It Bill Bailey?
74. Is It Legal?
75. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
76. The Jackie Mason Show
77. Jack & The Beanstalk
78. Jeff Green Up West
79. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
80. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
81. Jim Davidson - So Far
82. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
83. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
84. Jonathan Creek
85. Keeping Mum
86. Kiss Me Kate
87. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
88. Last Of The Summer Wine
89. The Last Salute
90. Lenny Goes To Town
91. A Loose Canon
92. Lost In France
93. A Many Splintered Thing
94. March In Windy City
95. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
96. Men Behaving Badly
97. Microsoap
98. The Mrs Merton Show
99. My Summer With Des
100. My Wonderful Life
101. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
102. Neville's Island
103. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
104. Oddbods
105. Only An Excuse?
106. Operation Good Guys
107. A Prince Among Men
108. Rab C. Nesbitt
109. Renford Rejects
110. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
111. Rex The Runt
112. Roger Roger
113. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
114. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
115. The Royle Family
116. Satellite City
117. The Saturday Night Armistice
118. Sermon From St Albion's
119. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
120. Smith & Jones
121. So Graham Norton
122. The Stand Up Show
123. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
124. Stanley Baxter In Person
125. Stella Street
126. Stressed Eric
127. Ted & Ralph
128. That Peter Kay Thing
129. They Think It's All Over
130. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
131. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
132. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
133. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
134. Tottenham 2
135. Trigger Happy TV
136. Turning Tricks
137. TV Offal
138. Unfinished Business
139. (Un)natural Acts
140. The Vicar Of Dibley
141. Victoria Wood Still Standing
142. Vinyl Tap
143. What's A Carry On?
144. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
145. You Are Here
146. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
147. 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