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

Notable comedies debuting in 1989

All TV comedy broadcast in 1989

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• 1st Exposure
• A Bit Of A Do
• A Bit Of Fry & Laurie
• A Grand Day Out With Wallace And Gromit
• A Touch Of Spice
• About Face
• Abracadigance
• Absolutely
• After Henry
• Alexei Sayle's Stuff
• All Change
• And A Nightingale Sang
• Ball-Trap On The Côte Sauvage
• Beadle's About
• Birds Of A Feather
• Blackadder
• Bodger & Badger
• Bradley
• Bread
• Brian Conley: This Way Up
• Bust
• Carrott Confidential
• ChuckleVision
• Close To Home
• Comic Relief
• Commercial Breakdown
• Creature Comforts
• Davro's Sketch Pad
• Desmond's
• Dowie
• Ever Decreasing Circles
• Every Second Counts
• Ffizz
• First And Last
• First Of The Summer Wine
• Foreign Bodies
• French Fields
• Gruey
• Hale And Pace
• Happy Christmas - I Love You
• Harry's Kingdom
• High Street Blues
• Hit The Pitch
• Home Run
• Home To Roost
• Hot Metal
• Hysteria
• I, Lovett
• In Sickness & In Health
• John Sessions On The Spot
• Joint Account
• Just Like That!
• Krankies Television
• KYTV
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Laura And Disorder
• Life Without George
• Little And Large
• Maid Marian And Her Merry Men
• Making Out
• Marti Caine
• May To December
• Michael Barrymore's Saturday Night Out
• Mike & Angelo
• Mornin' Sarge
• Morris Minor's Marvellous Motors
• Never The Twain
• Nice Work
• Nick Revell
• No Strings
• Norbert Smith - A Life
• Off The Wall
• Only Fools And Horses
• Parrot Sketch Not Included: 20 Years Of Monty Python
• Red Dwarf
• Running Wild
• Shelley
• Singles
• Smith & Jones
• Smith And Jones In Small Doses
• Snakes And Ladders
• Sob Sisters
• Something For The Weekend
• Spitting Image
• Split Ends
• Stay Lucky
• Sticky Moments With Julian Clary
• Streets Apart
• Style Monsters
• Surgical Spirit
• That's Love
• That's Showbusiness
• The Accountant
• The Appointments Of Dennis Jennings
• The Benny Hill Show
• The Bruce Forsyth Show
• The Bubblegum Brigade
• The Comedy Store
• The Dame Edna Experience
• The Groovy Fellers
• The Labours Of Erica
• The Les Dawson Show
• The National Theatre Of Brent Presents...
• The New Statesman
• The Nineteenth Hole
• The Russ Abbot Show
• The Staggering Stories Of Ferdinand De Bargos
• The Stone Age
• Three Up, Two Down
• Tricky Business
• Turns
• Tygo Road
• Unexplained Laughter
• Victoria Wood
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• Worzel Gummidge Down Under
• You Must Be Joking
• Young, Gifted And Broke

All radio comedy broadcast in 1989

• Beachcomber... By The Way
• Cutler On Education
• Delbert Wilkins' Legal Pirate New Year Jam
• Delbert Wilkins' New Year's Eve Jam
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
• King Street Junior
• Lenin Of The Rovers
• Second Thoughts
• Stilgoe's Around
• That Man Remembered
• The Amazing Test Match Crime
• The Mary Whitehouse Experience
• The Million Pound Radio Show
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz
• The Random Jottings Of Hinge And Bracket
• Uncle Mort's North Country

Film comedies released in 1989

• A Chorus Of Disapproval
• Erik The Viking
• Getting It Right
• How To Get Ahead In Advertising
• Lenny Live And Unleashed
• Shirley Valentine
• The Tall Guy
• Wilt
• Without A Clue