• The Brass Band won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
• Tommy Cooper died on stage in April

Notable comedies debuting in 1984

All TV comedy broadcast in 1984

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• A Fine Romance
• A Kick Up The Eighties
• Aladdin And The Forty Thieves
• Arthur's Hallowed Ground
• Big Deal
• Bless My Soul
• Blue Money
• Bootle Saddles
• Bottle Boys
• Boyce Goes West
• Brass
• Bring Me Sunshine - A Tribute To Eric Morecambe O.B.E.
• Bring Me Sunshine - A Tribute To Eric Morecambe, OBE
• Call Earnshaw
• Cannon And Ball
• Carrott's Lib
• Chance In A Million
• City Lights
• Cockles
• Comrade Dad
• Dame Edna Everage - A Birthday Tribute
• Dave Allen
• Dear Ladies
• Don't Wait Up
• Dream Stuffing
• Duty Free
• Ever Decreasing Circles
• Fairly Secret Army
• Fast Forward
• Father's Day
• Foxy Lady
• Freddie Starr At The Royalty
• Fresh Fields
• Go For It
• Grandad
• Hallelujah!
• Hi-De-Hi!
• Hilary
• I Thought You'd Gone
• It's Going To Be Alright
• It's Max Boyce
• It's Never Too Late
• Just Good Friends
• Kelly Monteith
• Knees-Up
• Lame Ducks
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Laugh??? I Nearly Paid My Licence Fee
• Leaving
• Let's Parlez Franglais
• Little Armadillos
• Me & My Girl
• Mike Harding In Belfast
• Mike Reid's Mates And Music
• Never The Twain
• Night Beat News
• No Place Like Home
• No Problem!
• Now And Then
• Poor Little Rich Girls
• Pull The Other One
• Punchlines
• Pushing Up Daisies
• Rentaghost
• Round And Round
• Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse
• Scully
• See How They Run
• Sharma And Beyond
• Sharon And Elsie
• Shine On Harvey Moon
• Singles
• Spitting Image
• That's My Boy
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Bullshitters
• The Chain
• The Clairvoyant
• The Entertainers
• The Fainthearted Feminist
• The Front Line
• The Hello Goodbye Man
• The Kenny Everett Television Show
• The Kit Curran Radio Show
• The Krankies Klub
• The Lady Is A Tramp
• The Lenny Henry Show
• The Les Dawson Show
• The Lonelyhearts Kid
• The Magnificent Evans
• The Main Attraction
• The National Theatre Of Brent Presents...
• The New Statesman
• The Other 'Arf
• The Steam Video Company
• The Two Ronnies
• The Young Ones
• They Came From Somewhere Else
• Tom O'Connor
• Tripper's Day
• What A Carry On
• Yes Minister

All radio comedy broadcast in 1984

• Bernie Clifton's Comedy Shop
• Here's Bob Monkhouse
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Legal, Decent, Honest And Truthful
• Mrs Pooter's Diary
• Radio Active
• Son Of Cliché
• The Mausoleum Club
• The News Huddlines
• Yes Minister

Film comedies released in 1984

• A Private Function
• Bloodbath At The House Of Death
• Comfort And Joy
• Electric Dreams
• Night Train To Murder