• Writer's Inc won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1982

All TV comedy broadcast in 1982

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• A Fine Romance
• A Foggy Outlook
• A.J. Wentworth, B.A.
• Alas Smith & Jones
• An Evening With Max Wall
• Anyone For Denis?
• Bobby Thompson - The Little Waster
• Butterflies
• By The Sea
• Cambridge Footlights Revue
• Cannon And Ball
• Carrott's Lib
• Carry On Laughing
• Clock On
• Comic Roots
• Credible Credits
• Dead Ernest
• Dear Heart
• Doddy!
• Don't Rock The Boat
• Educating Marmalade
• Emery Presents
• Father Charlie
• Foxy Lady
• Funnybone
• Game For A Laugh
• Goodbye Mr. Kent
• Grandad
• Hi-De-Hi!
• Holding The Fort
• Horace
• In Loving Memory
• It's Your Move
• Jane
• Keep It In The Family
• Ken Dodd's Showbiz
• Kevin Turvey - The Man Behind The Green Door
• L For Lester
• Last Night Of The Poms
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Let There Be Love
• Living Apart Together
• Max Bygraves - Side By Side
• Mike Yarwood In Persons
• Never The Twain
• Nobody's Perfect
• Not The Nine O'Clock News
• O.T.T.
• Oh Yes I Am.... Oh No You're Not!
• Only Fools And Horses
• Only When I Laugh
• Open All Hours
• Outside Edge
• P'Tang Yang Kipperbang
• Posh
• Q
• Rentaghost
• Rep
• Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse
• Say Something Happened
• Shelley
• Shine On Harvey Moon
• Sink Or Swim
• Solo
• Sorry!
• Sorry, I'm A Stranger Here Myself
• Spooner's Patch
• Success
• Terry & June
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Big Top Variety Show
• The Bounder
• The Comic Strip Presents...
• The Eric Sykes 1990 Show
• The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
• The Further Adventures Of Lucky Jim
• The Gaffer
• The Glamour Girls
• The Goodies
• The Kenny Everett Television Show
• The Les Dawson Show
• The Morecambe & Wise Show
• The Other 'Arf
• The Stanley Baxter Hour
• The Young Ones
• Third Time Lucky
• Three Of A Kind
• Tom, Dick And Harriet
• Union Castle
• Whoops Apocalypse
• Yes Minister
• Young At Heart

All radio comedy broadcast in 1982

• A Right Royal Rip-Off
• Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop
• Funny You Should Ask
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• In A Nutshell
• Kenneth Williams - Ad Lib
• Radio Active
• Semi Circles
• The Lenny Henry Sunday Hoot!
• The News Huddlines
• The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket
• The Show With No Name
• Wally Who?

Film comedies released in 1982

• Britannia Hospital
• Privates On Parade
• Trail Of The Pink Panther
• Victor/Victoria