British Comedy in 1981
- The Cambridge Footlights (featuring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie) won the Edinburgh Comedy Award.
- The first series of Only Fools And Horses went out on television in this year
Notable comedies debuting in 1981
Never The Twain
Only Fools And Horses
Sorry!
Game For A Laugh
Punchlines
That's My Boy
The Kenny Everett Television Show
A Fine Romance
It Takes A Worried Man...
The Gaffer
Three Of A Kind
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All TV comedy broadcast in 1981
- 81 Take 2
- A Fine Romance
- A Kick Up The Eighties
- A Sharp Intake Of Breath
- Agony
- Are You Being Served?
- Astronauts
- Ballyskillen Opera House
- Bavarian Night
- Beat The Carrott
- Big Jim And The Figaro Club
- Bless Me, Father
- Cannon And Ball
- Carrott Del Sol
- Carry On Laughing
- Chintz
- Coming Home
- Cowboys
- Dave Allen
- Doctor Down Under
- Doctors' Daughters
- Dodd On His Todd
- Frankie Howerd Strikes Again
- Freddie Starr On The Road
- Fundamental Frolics
- Game For A Laugh
- Get Lost!
- Happy Endings
- Have I Got You... Where You Want Me?
- Hi-De-Hi!
- Hinge And Bracket
- Holding The Fort
- Honky Tonk Heroes
- If You Go Down In The Woods Today
- It Ain't Half Hot Mum
- It Takes A Worried Man...
- Keep It In The Family
- Kinvig
- Last Of The Summer Wine
- Misfits
- Never The Twain
- Now For Nookie
- Only Fools And Horses
- Only When I Laugh
- Open All Hours
- Partners
- Pig In The Middle
- Present Laughter
- Private Schulz
- Rentaghost
- Revolting Women
- Robin's Nest
- Roger Doesn't Live Here Anymore
- Roots
- Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse
- Scoop
- Seconds Out
- Shillingbury Tales
- Sink Or Swim
- Solo
- Sorry!
- Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
- Stainless Steel And The Star Spies
- Take A Letter Mr. Jones...
- Terry & June
- That Beryl Marston...!
- That's My Boy
- The Bagthorpe Saga
- The Benny Hill Show
- The Dick Emery Show
- The End Of The End Of The Pier Show
- The Gaffer
- The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy
- The Incredible Mr Tanner
- The Kenny Everett Television Show
- The Kenny Everett Video Show
- The Last Song
- The Little And Large Show
- The Morecambe & Wise Show
- The Muppet Show
- The Other 'Arf
- The Stanley Baxter Series
- The Two Ronnies
- Three Of A Kind
- Till Death....
- To The Manor Born
- West End Tales
- Wood And Walters
- Worzel Gummidge
- Yes Minister
- You're Only Young Twice
- Young At Heart