British comedy in 1996
- Eddie Izzard was named Best Stand-Up at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
- Dylan Moran won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
- The 'Time On Our Hands' episode of Only Fools And Horses was watched by over 24 million viewers
Notable comedies debuting in 1996
All new TV comedy from 1996
- The 10%ers
- 2point4 Children
- Absolutely Fabulous
- The Adam And Joe Show
- Agent Z & The Penguin From Mars
- Anyone For Pennis
- As Time Goes By
- Asylum
- An Audience With...
- Bad Boys
- Barry Welsh Is Coming
- Beadle's About
- Beautiful Thing
- A Big Slice Of Jo Brand
- Birds Of A Feather
- Bob Monkhouse On The Spot
- Bodger & Badger
- Brian Conley - Alive And Dangerous
- The British Comedy Awards
- The Brittas Empire
- Chef!
- ChuckleVision
- Classic Cooper
- Commercial Breakdown
- Crossing The Floor
- Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
- The Detectives
- Digance In A Field Of His Own
- Douglas
- A Drop Of Digance
- Drop The Dead Donkey
- The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
- Eskimo Day
- An Evening With...
- An Evening With Lily Savage
- Faith In The Future
- The Fast Show
- Father Ted
- Fist Of Fun
- Frankie Howerd At His Tittermost
- The Freddie Starr Show
- French And Saunders
- Gagtag
- A Gala Comedy Hour - Best Of The Prince's Trust
- Game On
- Gayle's World
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Hale And Pace
- Hamish Macbeth
- Have I Got News For You
- I Hate This House
- Is It Legal?
- It Happened Next Year
- Jack And Jeremy's Real Lives
- Jack Dee's Christmas Show
- Jackie Mason At The London Palladium
- Jeff Green - Live
- Jo Brand - All The Way To Worcester
- Jo Brand Through The Cakehole
- Last Of The Summer Wine
- The Lee Evans Show
- The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin
- Lenny Henry Gets Wild
- Life After Birth
- The Liver Birds
- Lord Of Misrule
- The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
- Married For Life
- Men Behaving Badly
- The Mrs Merton Show
- Murder Most Horrid
- My Good Friend
- My Wonderful Life
- Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- Never Mind The Horrocks
- Next Of Kin
- The Office
- Oh Doctor Beeching!
- One Foot In The Grave
- Only An Excuse?
- Only Fools And Horses
- Out Of Tune
- Outside Edge
- Over Here
- Paul Merton In Galton & Simpson's...
- Pop Dogs
- The Preventers
- Pulp Video
- Rab C. Nesbitt
- The Real McCoy
- Roger Roger
- Roger + The Rottentrolls
- The Russ Abbot Show
- Safe And Sound
- Saturday Live
- The Saturday Night Armistice
- Shooting Stars
- Snug And Cozi
- Sometime, Never
- Spike Milligan
- Spitting Image
- The Stand Up Show
- Stanley Baxter In Reel Terms
- Stanley Baxter Is Back
- That's Showbusiness
- The Thin Blue Line
- The Upper Hand
- The Vicar Of Dibley
All new radio comedy from 1996
- Alan Parker: Roadwarrior
- Angry Old Men
- Are You From The Bugle?
- Babblewick Hall
- Beaumarchais
- Chambers
- Change At Oglethorpe
- Doon Your Way
- The Elephant Man
- Elsie, Doris, Gert And Daisy
- For Better Or For Worse
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Hearing With Hegley
- I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
- The Jasper Carrott Trial
- Kalangadog Junction
- Kathmandu Or Bust
- Kind Hearts And Coronets
- King Street Junior
- Laughter In The Air
- Laurel And Hardy
- Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
- The Mark Steel Solution
- Masala FM
- Minor Adjustment
- The News Huddlines
- The News Quiz
- Pankhiraj
- Red Dwarf
- The Shuttleworths
- Sir Henry At Rawlinson End
- The Sunday Format
- Talking Comedy
- The Two Sisters
- Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe