British comedy in 1998

• The Royle Family was Best New TV Comedy at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
• Tommy Tiernan won the Edinburgh Comedy Award

Notable comedies debuting in 1998

Renford Rejects

The 99p Challenge

The Now Show

All new TV comedy from 1998

1. The 11 O'Clock Show
2. 2point4 Children
3. 30 Years Of Billy Connolly
4. 30 Years Of Laughter
5. The Adam And Joe Show
6. Adam's Family Tree
7. Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
8. Alan Tyler's Big Night In
9. Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
10. Armstrong And Miller
11. As Time Goes By
12. An Audience With...
13. Babes In The Wood
14. Barking
15. The Ben Elton Show
16. The Best Of British
17. Big Train
18. Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
19. Birds Of A Feather
20. Blackadder
21. Blankety Blank
22. Bob Monkhouse On Campus
23. Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
24. Bodger & Badger
25. Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
26. The British Comedy Awards
27. Carry On Darkly
28. ChuckleVision
29. Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
30. Cold Feet
31. Comedy Nation
32. The Comedy Network
33. Comedy Store
34. The Comic Strip Presents...
35. The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
36. The Creatives
37. Dear John: A Tribute To John Wells
38. Denis Norden's Laughter File
39. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
40. dinnerladies
41. Dressing For Breakfast
42. Drop The Dead Donkey
43. Duck Patrol
44. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
45. Europigeon
46. Faith In The Future
47. Families At War
48. Fantasy Football
49. Father Ted
50. First On Four
51. The Freddie Starr Show
52. French And Saunders
53. Funny Women
54. Gagging For It
55. Game On
56. The Generation Game
57. Get Real
58. Get Up, Stand Up
59. Goodness Gracious Me
60. Goodnight Sweetheart
61. Grafters
62. Hale And Pace
63. Harry Enfield & Chums
64. Harry Hill
65. Have I Got News For You
66. Heartburn Hotel
67. Heroes Of Comedy
68. Holding The Baby
69. Homie & Away
70. How Do You Want Me?
71. Hububb
72. Humdrum
73. If I Ruled The World
74. In Exile
75. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
76. In The Red
77. Is It Bill Bailey?
78. Is It Legal?
79. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
80. The Jackie Mason Show
81. Jack & The Beanstalk
82. Jeff Green Up West
83. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
84. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
85. Jim Davidson - So Far
86. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
87. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
88. Jonathan Creek
89. Keeping Mum
90. Kiss Me Kate
91. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
92. Last Of The Summer Wine
93. The Last Salute
94. Lenny Goes To Town
95. A Loose Canon
96. Lost In France
97. A Many Splintered Thing
98. March In Windy City
99. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
100. Men Behaving Badly
101. Microsoap
102. The Mrs Merton Show
103. My Summer With Des
104. My Wonderful Life
105. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
106. Neville's Island
107. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
108. Oddbods
109. Only An Excuse?
110. Operation Good Guys
111. A Prince Among Men
112. Rab C. Nesbitt
113. Renford Rejects
114. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
115. Rex The Runt
116. Roger Roger
117. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
118. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
119. The Royle Family
120. Satellite City
121. The Saturday Night Armistice
122. The Secret Policeman's Ball
123. Sermon From St Albion's
124. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
125. Smith & Jones
126. So Graham Norton
127. The Stand Up Show
128. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
129. Stanley Baxter In Person
130. Stella Street
131. Stressed Eric
132. Ted & Ralph
133. That Peter Kay Thing
134. They Think It's All Over
135. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
136. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
137. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
138. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
139. Tottenham 2
140. Trigger Happy TV
141. Turning Tricks
142. TV Offal
143. Unfinished Business
144. (Un)natural Acts
145. The Vicar Of Dibley
146. Victoria Wood Still Standing
147. Vinyl Tap
148. What's A Carry On?
149. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
150. You Are Here
151. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
152. The Zig And Zag Show

All new radio comedy from 1998

1. 4 At The Store
2. The 99p Challenge
3. The Alan Davies Show
4. The (Almost) Accidental Adventures Of Bell And Todd
5. Armstrong And Miller
6. As Time Goes By
7. Babblewick Hall
8. Bag-A-Bagel
9. Ballylenon
10. The Beaton Generation
11. The Big Town All Stars
12. Blue Jam
13. The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
14. Bookcases
15. Bussmann And Quantick Kingsize
16. Chambers
17. The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor
18. Chewin' The Fat
19. Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
20. Choice Grenfell
21. The Cradleys
22. The Curried Goat Show
23. Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years
24. Double Trouble
25. The Emerald Green Show
26. Facts And Fancies
27. Five Squeezy Pieces
28. The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
29. The Ghost Train
30. Girlies
31. The Goldfish Bowl
32. Goodness Gracious Me
33. The Griff Rhys Jones Show
34. Hancock And Son
35. Hearing With Hegley
36. If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?
37. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
38. In The Chair
39. Just A Minute
40. King Street Junior
41. Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
42. Like They've Never Been Gone
43. Love 40-New Balls Please
44. Mad Man Blue
45. The Mark Steel Revolution
46. May To December
47. The Motion Show
48. The News Huddlines
49. The News Quiz
50. No Commitments
51. The Now Show
52. Old Dog And The Partridge
53. Old Harry's Game
54. On Baby Street
55. Our Man At Wembley
56. Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
57. Rent
58. Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
59. Showing Up
60. The Shuttleworths
61. The Smith Lectures
62. Spangles 'n' Tights
63. Spike At 80
64. Stand Up Two
65. Stereonation
66. Talking Comedy
67. Turns Of The Century
68. The Very World Of Milton Jones
69. Visiting Julia
70. Wannabe
71. The Way It Is
72. Week Ending
73. World Of Pub

British comedy films released in 1998

1. Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis
2. Divorcing Jack
3. Food Of Love
4. Girls' Night
5. If Only...
6. Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
7. My Son The Fanatic
8. Sliding Doors
9. Stiff Upper Lips
10. Still Crazy
11. Up 'N' Under
12. What Rats Won't Do