British Comedy in 1989
- Simon Fanshawe won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
- Monty Python star Graham Chapman died
Notable comedies debuting in 1989
Birds Of A Feather
Mike & Angelo
Bodger & Badger
Woof!
That's Showbusiness
Commercial Breakdown
Surgical Spirit
Desmond's
May To December
Smith & Jones
Press Gang
Winston
Absolutely
Maid Marian And Her Merry Men
Rory Bremner
Stay Lucky
The Mary Whitehouse Experience
The Staggering Stories Of Ferdinand De Bargos
An Actor's Life For Me
Beachcomber... By The Way
French Fields
Hysteria
Krankies Television
KYTV
Making Out
Tricky Business
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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
- 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
- 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 Little And Large 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
- 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
- Second Thoughts
- 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