British Comedy in 1986
- Ben Keaton won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
Notable comedies debuting in 1986
Beadle's About
Hale And Pace
Every Second Counts
Bread
Lovejoy
The Russ Abbot Show
Brush Strokes
Naked Video
A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
The Two Of Us
Executive Stress

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All TV comedy broadcast in 1986
- 'Allo 'Allo!
- A Very Peculiar Practice
- All At No. 20
- And There's More
- Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
- Beadle's About
- Blackadder
- Bobby Davro's TV Annual
- Bread
- Brush Strokes
- Cannon And Ball
- Chance In A Million
- Come Dancing With Jools Holland
- Comedians Do It On Stage
- Comrade Dad
- Constant Hot Water
- Cool It
- Dave Allen
- Dear John....
- Digance At Work
- Duty Free
- Ever Decreasing Circles
- Every Second Counts
- Executive Stress
- Fairly Secret Army
- Five Alive
- Fresh Fields
- Full House
- Girls On Top
- Hale And Pace
- Hell's Bells
- Help!
- Hi-De-Hi!
- Hilary
- Home To Roost
- Hot Metal
- I Feel Fine
- I Woke Up One Morning
- In Loving Memory
- In Sickness & In Health
- Jossy's Giants
- Just Good Friends
- Langley Bottom
- Last Of The Summer Wine
- Laugh Attack
- Laughs From Her Majesty's
- Lenny Henry Tonite
- Live From The Piccadilly
- Mapp & Lucia
- Mind Your Language
- Mog
- Mr Pye
- Naked Video
- Never The Twain
- No Place Like Home
- Now - Something Else
- Only Fools And Horses
- Prospects
- Room At The Bottom
- Saturday Live
- Season's Greetings
- Slinger's Day
- Sorry!
- Spitting Image
- Stanley Baxter's Picture Annual
- That's My Boy
- The Benny Hill Show
- The Bob Monkhouse Show
- The Brothers McGregor
- The Clairvoyant
- The Comic Strip Presents...
- The Kenny Everett Television Show
- The Kit Curran Radio Show
- The Little And Large Show
- The Russ Abbot Show
- The Two Of Us
- Three Up, Two Down
- Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
- We'll Think Of Something
- What A Carry On
- Wilderness Road
- Yes, Prime Minister