• Theatre De Complicité won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1985

All TV comedy broadcast in 1985

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• A Break Of Wind
• A Dabble With Digance
• Affairs Of The Heart
• All In Good Faith
• American Carrott
• And There's More
• Are You Being Served?
• Arthur And Phil Go Off...
• Assaulted Nuts
• Barnet
• Blott On The Landscape
• Bobby Davro On The Box
• Bottle Boys
• Charters And Caldicott
• Cool It
• Copy Cats
• Dave Allen
• Don't Wait Up
• Dutch Girls
• Emma Thompson: Up For Grabs
• Favourite Things: Les Dawson
• Fresh Fields
• From The Top
• Full House
• Galloping Galaxies!
• Game For A Laugh
• Girls On Top
• Happy Families
• Hi-De-Hi!
• Hilary
• Home To Roost
• I Woke Up One Morning
• In Sickness & In Health
• Inside Out
• Kelly Monteith In One
• Kelly's Eye
• Lame Ducks
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Leaving
• Live From Her Majesty's
• Malc Up Market
• Mann's Best Friends
• Mapp & Lucia
• Marjorie And Men
• Me & My Girl
• Mighty Moments From World History
• Mog
• Moving
• No Problem!
• Only Fools And Horses
• Open All Hours
• Relative Strangers
• Roll Over Beethoven
• Russ Abbot's Saturday Madhouse
• Shine On Harvey Moon
• Sorry!
• South Of The Border
• Stanley Baxter's Christmas Hamper
• Super Gran
• Tandoori Nights
• Terry & June
• That's My Boy
• The Beiderbecke Affair
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Bob Monkhouse Show
• The Bright Side
• The Brothers McGregor
• The Freddie Starr Comedy Express
• The Front Line
• The Funny Side
• The Gender Gap
• The Joke Machine
• The Kenny Everett Television Show
• The Lenny Henry Show
• The Little And Large Show
• The Mistress
• The National Theatre Of Brent Presents...
• The New Statesman
• The Optimist
• The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole
• The Two Ronnies
• Three Up, Two Down
• Troubles & Strife
• Up Our Street
• Up The Elephant And Round The Castle
• Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
• Walking The Planks
• What A Carry On

All radio comedy broadcast in 1985

• After Henry
• Blandings On Radio 4
• Delve Special
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Just Williams
• King Street Junior
• Nineteen Ninety-Four
• Radio Active
• Son Of Cliché
• The Bigger They Are
• The Million Pound Radio Show
• The News Huddlines
• The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket

Film comedies released in 1985

• Brazil
• Morons From Outer Space
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• No Surrender
• Restless Natives
• The Girl In The Picture
• The Supergrass
• Water