British comedy in 1989

• Simon Fanshawe won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
• Monty Python star Graham Chapman died

Notable comedies debuting in 1989

All new TV comedy from 1989

1. 1st Exposure
2. About Face
3. Abracadigance
4. Absolutely
5. The Accountant
6. After Henry
7. Alexei Sayle's Stuff
8. All Change
9. 'Allo 'Allo!
10. And A Nightingale Sang
11. The Appointments Of Dennis Jennings
12. Ball-Trap On The Côte Sauvage
13. Beadle's About
14. The Benny Hill Show
15. Birds Of A Feather
16. A Bit Of A Do
17. A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
18. Blackadder
19. Blankety Blank
20. Bodger & Badger
21. Bradley
22. Bread
23. Brian Conley: This Way Up
24. The Bruce Forsyth Show
25. Brush Strokes
26. The Bubblegum Brigade
27. Carrott Confidential
28. ChuckleVision
29. Close To Home
30. The Comedy Store
31. Comic Relief
32. Commercial Breakdown
33. Creature Comforts
34. The Dame Edna Experience
35. Davro's Sketch Pad
36. Desmond's
37. Dowie
38. Ever Decreasing Circles
39. Every Second Counts
40. Ffizz
41. First And Last
42. First Of The Summer Wine
43. Foreign Bodies
44. French Fields
45. A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit
46. The Groovy Fellers
47. Gruey
48. Hale And Pace
49. Happy Christmas - I Love You
50. Harry's Kingdom
51. High Street Blues
52. Hit The Pitch
53. Home James!
54. Home Run
55. Home To Roost
56. Hot Metal
57. Hysteria
58. I, Lovett
59. In Sickness & In Health
60. John Sessions On The Spot
61. Joint Account
62. Just Like That!
63. Krankies Television
64. KYTV
65. The Labours Of Erica
66. Last Of The Summer Wine
67. The Laughter Show
68. Laura And Disorder
69. The Les Dawson Show
70. Life Without George
71. Little And Large
72. Maid Marian And Her Merry Men
73. Making Out
74. Marti Caine
75. May To December
76. Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
77. Mike & Angelo
78. Minder
79. Mornin' Sarge
80. Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors
81. Naked Video
82. The National Theatre Of Brent Presents...
83. Never The Twain
84. The New Statesman
85. Nice Work
86. Nick Revell
87. The Nineteenth Hole
88. Norbert Smith - A Life
89. No Strings
90. Off The Wall
91. Only Fools And Horses
92. Parrot Sketch Not Included: 20 Years Of Monty Python
93. Press Gang
94. Red Dwarf
95. Rory Bremner
96. The Russ Abbot Show
97. Scotch And Wry
98. Shelley
99. Singles
100. Smith And Jones In Small Doses
101. Smith & Jones
102. Snakes And Ladders
103. Sob Sisters
104. Something For The Weekend
105. Spitting Image
106. Split Ends
107. The Staggering Stories Of Ferdinand De Bargos
108. Stand Up
109. Stay Lucky
110. Sticky Moments With Julian Clary
111. The Stone Age
112. Streets Apart
113. Style Monsters
114. Surgical Spirit
115. That's Love
116. That's Showbusiness
117. Three Up, Two Down
118. A Touch Of Spice
119. Tricky Business
120. Turns
121. The Two Of Us
122. Tygo Road
123. Unexplained Laughter
124. Victoria Wood
125. Watching
126. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
127. Woof!
128. Worzel Gummidge Down Under
129. You Must Be Joking
130. Young, Gifted And Broke

All new radio comedy from 1989

1. An Actor's Life For Me
2. After Henry
3. The Amazing Test Match Crime
4. Beachcomber... By The Way
5. Cutler On Education
6. Delbert Wilkins' Legal Pirate New Year Jam
7. Delbert Wilkins' New Year's Eve Jam
8. Girls Will Be Girls
9. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
10. I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
11. Just A Minute
12. Ken Dodd's Christmas Cracker
13. King Street Junior
14. Lenin Of The Rovers
15. Little Blighty On The Down
16. The Long Hot Satsuma
17. The Mary Whitehouse Experience
18. The Million Pound Radio Show
19. The News Huddlines
20. The News Quiz
21. Pull The Other One!
22. The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket
23. Second Thoughts
24. Stilgoe's Around
25. Such Rotten Luck
26. That Man Remembered
27. Uncle Mort's North Country
28. Victor Lewis-Smith
29. Week Ending
30. Winston

British comedy films released in 1989

1. A Chorus Of Disapproval
2. Erik The Viking
3. Getting It Right
4. How To Get Ahead In Advertising
5. Lenny Live And Unleashed
6. Out Of Order
7. Shirley Valentine
8. The Tall Guy
9. Wilt
10. Without A Clue