• Jack Dee was named Top Stage Newcomer at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
• Frank Skinner won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1991

All TV comedy broadcast in 1991

• 'Allo 'Allo!
• 291 Club
• 2point4 Children
• A Late Lunch With Sir Les
• A Shoe Fetishist's Guide To Bruce Morton
• A Slight Hitch
• Absolute Hell
• Absolutely
• Alive And Kicking
• All Change
• All Good Things
• An Actor's Life For Me
• Beadle's About
• Bernard And The Genie
• Birds Of A Feather
• Bodger & Badger
• Bottom
• Bread
• Brush Strokes
• Cannon And Ball's Playhouse
• Choice Boyce
• ChuckleVision
• City Lights
• Comic Relief
• Commercial Breakdown
• Cool Head
• Dame Edna's Hollywood
• Dear Rosie
• Desmond's
• Doctor At The Top
• Drop The Dead Donkey
• Fiddlers Three
• Filipina Dreamgirls
• FLIP
• French Fields
• Gone To The Dogs
• Hale And Pace
• Hancock
• Have I Got News For You
• Hope It Rains
• Jeeves And Wooster
• John Sessions's Tall Tales
• Joking Apart
• Josie
• Julie Walters And Friends
• Just What I Always Wanted
• Keeping Up Appearances
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Lazarus & Dingwall
• Lenny Go Home
• Making Out
• Message To Major
• Murder Most Horrid
• Never The Twain
• No Job For A Lady
• On The Up
• One Foot In The Grave
• Only Fools And Horses
• Packet Of Three
• Paramount City
• Paul Merton - The Series
• Plaza Patrol
• Radio Roo
• Red Dwarf
• Rich Tea And Sympathy
• Richard Digance
• Roy's Raiders
• S&M
• ScreenPlay: Journey To Knock
• Second Thoughts
• Singles
• Sleepers
• So You Think You've Got Troubles
• South By South-East
• Spitting Image
• Surgical Spirit
• Taking The Floor
• Teenage Health Freak
• That's Showbusiness
• The Best Of Tommy Cooper
• The Boys From The Bush
• The British Comedy Awards
• The Brittas Empire
• The Craig Ferguson Story
• The Darling Buds Of May
• The Gravy Train Goes East
• The Les Dennis Laughter Show
• The Little And Large Show
• The Men's Room
• The New Statesman
• The Piglet Files
• The Real McCoy
• The Russ Abbot Show
• The Sharp End
• The Upper Hand
• They Never Slept
• Tricky Business
• Trouble In Mind
• Up Pompeii!
• Up The Garden Path
• Up The Junction
• Very Big Very Soon
• Vic Reeves Big Night Out
• Waiting For God
• Watt On Earth
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• You Rang, M'Lord?

All radio comedy broadcast in 1991

• And Now, In Colour
• At Last The Go On Show
• Beachcomber... By The Way
• Bill Pertwee On Beyond Our Ken
• Girls Will Be Girls
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Jimmy's Cricket Team
• King Street Junior
• Martyn Read - The Folly
• Mr And Mrs Nobody
• On The Hour
• Pull The Other One!
• Second Thoughts
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz

Film comedies released in 1991

• American Friends
• Drop Dead Fred
• Riff-Raff
• Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
• The Commitments
• The Pope Must Die