• 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 comedy series that started 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...
• 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 And The Rottentrolls
• Roger Roger
• Safe And Sound
• Saturday Live
• Shooting Stars
• Snug And Cozi
• Sometime, Never
• 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 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
• 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 Quiz
• The Shuttleworths
• The Sunday Format
• Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe

1996 British comedy films

• Brassed Off
• Secrets & Lies
• The Van
• The Wind In The Willows