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

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. Gruey
51. Hale And Pace
52. Help!
53. Hi-De-Hi!
54. Home James!
55. Hot Metal
56. The Importance Of Being Earnest
57. Incident On The Line
58. John Sessions
59. John Wells And The Three Wise Men
60. The Kate Robbins Show
61. The Kenny Everett Television Show
62. A Kind Of Living
63. Last Of The Summer Wine
64. The Laughter Show
65. The Lenny Henry Show
66. The Lenny Henry Special
67. Les Girls
68. Life Without George
69. Little And Large
70. Live From The Palladium
71. Lucky Sunil
72. The Management
73. Me & My Girl
74. Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
75. Minder
76. The Morecambe And Wise Classics
77. Mr H Is Late
78. Mr Majeika
79. My Husband And I
80. Natural Causes
81. Never The Twain
82. News At Twelve
83. The New Statesman
84. No Frills
85. Number 27
86. Once In A Lifetime
87. Only Fools And Horses
88. Palace Hill
89. Pastoral Care
90. Playing For Real
91. Rab C. Nesbitt
92. Red Dwarf
93. The Refuge
94. The River
95. Room At The Bottom
96. The Rory Bremner Show
97. The Russ Abbot Show
98. Scotch And Wry
99. Shelley
100. Singles
101. Small World
102. Sorry!
103. Spin Off
104. Spitting Image
105. Square Deal
106. The Steamie
107. Streets Apart
108. That's Love
109. This Is David Lander
110. Thompson
111. Twenty-Two Years Of The Two Ronnies
112. The Two Of Us
113. Valentine Park
114. A Very Peculiar Practice
115. Watching
116. Who Dares Wins...
117. A Wholly Healthy Glasgow
118. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
119. Wife Begins At 40
120. The World According To Smith And Jones
121. Wyatt's Watchdogs
122. Yes, Prime Minister
123. You Must Be The Husband
124. You Rang, M'Lord?

All new radio comedy from 1988

1. The Big Fun Show
2. Blood And Bruises
3. Fallen Arches
4. Flying The Flag
5. The Goon Show
6. Hancock's Last Half Hour
7. Huddwinks
8. I Should Say So
9. Just A Minute
10. Ken Dodd's Easter Special
11. King Street Junior
12. Lenin Of The Rovers
13. Little Blighty On The Down
14. The Mausoleum Club
15. The News Huddlines
16. The News Quiz
17. Pull The Other One!
18. Radio Fun: The Story Of Radio Comedy
19. Saturday Night Fry
20. Second Thoughts
21. Thirty Minutes Worth
22. Uncle Mort's North Country
23. The Unfair Quiz
24. Up The Garden Path
25. Week Ending
26. Whose Line Is It Anyway?

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. Soursweet