• 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 TV comedy broadcast in 1996

• 2point4 Children
• A Big Slice Of Jo Brand
• A Drop Of Digance
• A Gala Comedy Hour - Best Of The Prince's Trust
• Absolutely Fabulous
• Agent Z & The Penguin From Mars
• An Evening With Lily Savage
• An Evening With...
• As Time Goes By
• Asylum
• Bad Boys
• Beadle's About
• Beautiful Thing
• Birds Of A Feather
• Bob Monkhouse On The Spot
• Brian Conley - Alive And Dangerous
• Chef!
• ChuckleVision
• Classic Cooper
• Crossing The Floor
• Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
• Digance In A Field Of His Own
• Drop The Dead Donkey
• Eskimo Day
• Faith In The Future
• Father Ted
• French And Saunders
• Gagtag
• Game On
• Gayle's World
• Hale And Pace
• 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
• Lenny Henry Gets Wild
• Life After Birth
• Lord Of Misrule
• Married For Life
• Men Behaving Badly
• My Good Friend
• My Wonderful Life
• Never Mind The Buzzcocks
• Never Mind The Horrocks
• Next Of Kin
• 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...
• Pulp Video
• Roger + The Rottentrolls
• Roger Roger
• Safe And Sound
• Saturday Live
• Shooting Stars
• Snug And Cozi
• Sometime, Never
• Spitting Image
• That's Showbusiness
• The 10%ers
• The Adam And Joe Show
• The British Comedy Awards
• The Brittas Empire
• The Detectives
• The Fast Show
• The Freddie Starr Show
• The Lee Evans Show
• The Legacy Of Reginald Perrin
• The Liver Birds
• The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
• The Mrs Merton Show
• The Office
• The Preventers
• The Real McCoy
• The Russ Abbot Show
• The Thin Blue Line
• The Upper Hand
• The Vicar Of Dibley

All radio comedy broadcast in 1996

• Angry Old Men
• Are You From The Bugle?
• Chambers
• Change At Oglethorpe
• Doon Your Way
• For Better Or For Worse
• Hearing With Hegley
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Kalangadog Junction
• Kathmandu Or Bust
• Kind Hearts And Coronets
• King Street Junior
• Laughter In The Air
• Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
• Minor Adjustment
• The Mark Steel Solution
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz
• The Shuttleworths
• The Sunday Format
• Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe

Film comedies released in 1996

• Brassed Off
• Secrets & Lies
• The Van
• The Wind In The Willows
• Twelfth Night Or What You Will