• Brown Blues won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1987

All TV comedy broadcast in 1987

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
• A Small Problem
• After Pilkington
• All At No. 20
• All In Good Faith
• And There's More
• Bad Boyes
• Beadle's About
• Blackadder
• Bobby Davro's TV Weekly
• Bread
• Brush Strokes
• Bust
• Cannon And Ball
• Carrott Confidential
• Checkpoint Chiswick
• Christmas Is Coming...
• ChuckleVision
• Comedy Wavelength
• Cue Gary!
• Dear John....
• Divided We Stand
• Don't Wait Up
• East Of Ipswich
• Ernie's Incredible Illucinations
• Ever Decreasing Circles
• Every Second Counts
• Executive Stress
• Farrington Of The F.O.
• Father Matthew's Daughter
• Ffizz
• Filthy Rich & Catflap
• First Aids
• Foreign Bodies
• French And Saunders
• Hardwicke House
• Hello Mum
• Hi-De-Hi!
• High & Dry
• Home To Roost
• In Sickness & In Health
• It's A Hudd Hudd World
• Jasper Carrott - Stand Up America
• Joe Longthorne Entertains
• Jossy's Giants
• Just For Laughs
• Keeping Score
• Kin Of The Castle
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Late Expectations
• Life Without George
• Lift Off! With Coppers And Co!
• Live From The Palladium
• Me & My Girl
• Morecambe & Wise On Stage
• My Husband And I
• Never Say Die
• Never The Twain
• No Place Like Home
• O.T.T.
• Only Fools And Horses
• Porterhouse Blue
• Relative Strangers
• Rude Health
• Running Wild
• Saturday Live
• Scoop
• Slinger's Day
• Sorry!
• Spitting Image
• Stop That Laughing At The Back
• Super Gran
• Superfrank
• Terry & June
• The Beiderbecke Tapes
• The Brothers McGregor
• The Corner House
• The Dame Edna Experience
• The Home-Made Xmas Video
• The Kenny Everett Television Show
• The Lenny Henry Christmas Special
• The Lenny Henry Show
• The Les Dawson Show
• The Little And Large Show
• The Mikado
• The Mistress
• The New Statesman
• The Refuge
• The Ritz
• The Russ Abbot Show
• The Two Ronnies
• The Way, The Truth, The Video
• The World According To Smith And Jones
• Three Up, Two Down
• Tutti Frutti
• Valentine Park
• Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
• What A Carry On
• What The Butler Saw
• Worzel Gummidge Down Under
• Yes, Prime Minister
• You Must Be The Husband

All radio comedy broadcast in 1987

• After Henry
• Big Jim And The Figaro Club
• Delve Special
• Frankie Howerd's Forum
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• King Street Junior
• Nineteen Ninety-Eight
• Pull The Other One!
• Radio Active
• Saturday Night Fry
• The Mausoleum Club
• The Milligan Papers
• The Million Pound Radio Show
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz
• The Phenomenon Squad
• The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket
• The Wordsmiths At Gorsemere

Film comedies released in 1987

• Eat The Rich
• High Season
• Hope And Glory
• Jane And The Lost City
• Personal Services
• Playing Away
• Rita, Sue And Bob Too!
• Wish You Were Here
• Withnail & I