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

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. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
37. dinnerladies
38. Dressing For Breakfast
39. Drop The Dead Donkey
40. Duck Patrol
41. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
42. Europigeon
43. Faith In The Future
44. Families At War
45. Fantasy Football
46. Father Ted
47. The Freddie Starr Show
48. French And Saunders
49. Funny Women
50. Gagging For It
51. Game On
52. Get Real
53. Goodness Gracious Me
54. Goodnight Sweetheart
55. Grafters
56. Hale And Pace
57. Harry Enfield & Chums
58. Harry Hill
59. Have I Got News For You
60. Heartburn Hotel
61. Heroes Of Comedy
62. Holding The Baby
63. Homie & Away
64. How Do You Want Me?
65. Hububb
66. Humdrum
67. If I Ruled The World
68. In Exile
69. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
70. In The Red
71. Is It Bill Bailey?
72. Is It Legal?
73. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
74. The Jackie Mason Show
75. Jack & The Beanstalk
76. Jeff Green Up West
77. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
78. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
79. Jim Davidson - So Far
80. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
81. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
82. Jonathan Creek
83. Keeping Mum
84. Kiss Me Kate
85. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
86. Last Of The Summer Wine
87. The Last Salute
88. Lenny Goes To Town
89. A Loose Canon
90. Lost In France
91. A Many Splintered Thing
92. March In Windy City
93. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
94. Men Behaving Badly
95. Microsoap
96. The Mrs Merton Show
97. My Summer With Des
98. My Wonderful Life
99. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
100. Neville's Island
101. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
102. Oddbods
103. Only An Excuse?
104. Operation Good Guys
105. A Prince Among Men
106. Rab C. Nesbitt
107. Renford Rejects
108. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
109. Rex The Runt
110. Roger Roger
111. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
112. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
113. The Royle Family
114. Satellite City
115. The Saturday Night Armistice
116. Sermon From St Albion's
117. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
118. Smith & Jones
119. So Graham Norton
120. The Stand Up Show
121. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
122. Stanley Baxter In Person
123. Stella Street
124. Stressed Eric
125. Ted & Ralph
126. That Peter Kay Thing
127. They Think It's All Over
128. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
129. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
130. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
131. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
132. Tottenham 2
133. Trigger Happy TV
134. Turning Tricks
135. TV Offal
136. Unfinished Business
137. (Un)natural Acts
138. The Vicar Of Dibley
139. Victoria Wood Still Standing
140. Vinyl Tap
141. What's A Carry On?
142. You Are Here
143. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
144. 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. Ballylenon
9. The Beaton Generation
10. The Big Town All Stars
11. Blue Jam
12. The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
13. Bookcases
14. Bussmann And Quantick Kingsize
15. Chambers
16. The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor
17. Chewin' The Fat
18. Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
19. Choice Grenfell
20. The Cradleys
21. The Curried Goat Show
22. Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years
23. Facts And Fancies
24. Five Squeezy Pieces
25. The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
26. The Ghost Train
27. Girlies
28. The Goldfish Bowl
29. Goodness Gracious Me
30. The Griff Rhys Jones Show
31. Hearing With Hegley
32. If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?
33. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
34. In The Chair
35. Just A Minute
36. King Street Junior
37. Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
38. Like They've Never Been Gone
39. Love 40-New Balls Please
40. The Mark Steel Revolution
41. May To December
42. The Motion Show
43. The News Huddlines
44. The News Quiz
45. No Commitments
46. The Now Show
47. Old Dog And The Partridge
48. Old Harry's Game
49. On Baby Street
50. Our Man At Wembley
51. Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
52. Rent
53. Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
54. The Shuttleworths
55. The Smith Lectures
56. Spangles 'n' Tights
57. Spike At 80
58. Stand Up Two
59. Stereonation
60. Talking Comedy
61. Turns Of The Century
62. The Very World Of Milton Jones
63. Visiting Julia
64. Week Ending
65. 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