Notable comedies debuting in 1980

All TV comedy broadcast in 1980

• A Sharp Intake Of Breath
• Agony
• An Audience With...
• Bernard Manning
• Bernie Clifton On Stage
• Boom Boom... Out Go The Lights
• Born And Bred
• Bruce Forsyth's Big Night
• Butterflies
• Can We Get On Now, Please?
• Cannon And Ball
• Chopsticks
• Citizen Smith
• Comedy Tonight
• Cooper's Half Hour
• Cowboys
• Donkeys' Years
• End Of Part One
• Fancy Wanders
• Flickers
• Frankie Howerd Reveals All
• Girl Talk
• Grundy
• Hello, Good Afternoon, Welcome
• Hi-De-Hi!
• Him And His Magic
• Hinge And Bracket
• Holding The Fort
• How's Your Father?
• In Loving Memory
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
• Janet And Company
• Jon, Brian, Kirsti And Jon
• Just Liz
• Keep It In The Family
• Leave It To Charlie
• Life Begins At Forty
• Meet Janet Brown
• Metal Mickey
• Michael Bentine's Potty Time
• Mike Yarwood In Persons
• Mixed Blessings
• Nanny Knows Best
• Nice Work
• Nobody's Perfect
• Not The Nine O'Clock News
• Only When I Laugh
• Peter Cook & Co
• Pig In The Middle
• Potter
• Q
• Rhubarb Rhubarb!
• Rings On Their Fingers
• Robin's Nest
• Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse
• Shelley
• Shillingbury Tales
• Sink Or Swim
• Smith And Goody
• Sounding Brass
• Spooner's Patch
• Take A Chance
• Tales From A Long Room
• Tell It To The Judge
• Tell It To The Jungle
• Terry & June
• The Amazing Adventures Of Morph
• The Basil Brush Show
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Cuckoo Waltz
• The Dawson Watch
• The Dick Emery Hour
• The Dick Emery Show
• The Glamour Girls
• The Kenny Everett Video Show
• The Likes Of Sykes
• The Little And Large Show
• The Many Wives Of Patrick
• The Morecambe & Wise Show
• The Nesbitts Are Coming
• The Other 'Arf
• The Setbacks
• The Square Leopard
• The Sun Trap
• The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf At Christmas
• The Two Ronnies
• Thicker Than Water
• Time Of My Life
• To The Manor Born
• Watch This Space
• Worzel Gummidge
• Yes Minister
• Young At Heart

All radio comedy broadcast in 1980

• Aladdin
• Funny You Should Ask
• Hordes Of The Things
• Kenneth Williams On Joe Orton
• The 27-Year Itch
• The Burkiss Way
• The Jason Explanation
• The News Huddlines
• What Ho, Jeeves!

Film comedies released in 1980

• George And Mildred
• Rising Damp
• Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
• That Sinking Feeling
• The Wildcats Of St. Trinian's