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 comedy series that started 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
- 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 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