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  4. 1991

British Comedy in 1991

  • 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

2point4 Children. Image shows from L to R: Bill (Belinda Lang), David (John Pickard), Ben (Gary Olsen), Jenny (Clare Buckfield). Copyright: BBC.TV

2point4 Children

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Barrymore

The Brittas Empire. Gordon Brittas (Chris Barrie). Copyright: BBC.TV

The Brittas Empire

Second Thoughts. Image shows from L to R: Faith (Lynda Bellingham), Bill (James Bolam).TV

Second Thoughts

The Real McCoy. Image shows from L to R: Curtis Walker, Ishmael Thomas. Copyright: BBC.TV

The Real McCoy

Murder Most Horrid.TV

Murder Most Horrid

Bottom. Image shows from L to R: Richie Richard (Rik Mayall), Eddie Hitler (Adrian Edmondson). Copyright: BBC.TV

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Dame Edna's Hollywood

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Radio Roo

The Darling Buds Of May. Pop Larkin (David Jason).TV

The Darling Buds Of May

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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

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