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

All new TV comedy from 1998

1. The 11 O'Clock Show
2. 2point4 Children
3. 30 Years Of Laughter
4. The Adam And Joe Show
5. Adam's Family Tree
6. Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
7. Alan Tyler's Big Night In
8. Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
9. Armstrong And Miller
10. As Time Goes By
11. An Audience With...
12. Babes In The Wood
13. Barking
14. The Ben Elton Show
15. The Best Of British
16. Big Train
17. Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
18. Birds Of A Feather
19. Blackadder
20. Blankety Blank
21. Bob Monkhouse On Campus
22. Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
23. Bodger & Badger
24. Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
25. The British Comedy Awards
26. Carry On Darkly
27. ChuckleVision
28. Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
29. Cold Feet
30. Comedy Nation
31. The Comedy Network
32. Comedy Store
33. The Comic Strip Presents...
34. The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
35. The Creatives
36. dinnerladies
37. Dressing For Breakfast
38. Drop The Dead Donkey
39. Duck Patrol
40. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
41. Europigeon
42. Faith In The Future
43. Families At War
44. Fantasy Football
45. Father Ted
46. The Freddie Starr Show
47. French And Saunders
48. Funny Women
49. Gagging For It
50. Game On
51. Get Real
52. Goodness Gracious Me
53. Goodnight Sweetheart
54. Grafters
55. Hale And Pace
56. Harry Enfield & Chums
57. Harry Hill
58. Have I Got News For You
59. Heartburn Hotel
60. Heroes Of Comedy
61. Holding The Baby
62. Homie & Away
63. How Do You Want Me?
64. Hububb
65. Humdrum
66. If I Ruled The World
67. In Exile
68. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
69. In The Red
70. Is It Bill Bailey?
71. Is It Legal?
72. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
73. The Jackie Mason Show
74. Jack & The Beanstalk
75. Jeff Green Up West
76. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
77. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
78. Jim Davidson - So Far
79. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
80. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
81. Jonathan Creek
82. Keeping Mum
83. Kiss Me Kate
84. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
85. Last Of The Summer Wine
86. The Last Salute
87. Lenny Goes To Town
88. A Loose Canon
89. Lost In France
90. A Many Splintered Thing
91. March In Windy City
92. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
93. Men Behaving Badly
94. Microsoap
95. The Mrs Merton Show
96. My Summer With Des
97. My Wonderful Life
98. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
99. Neville's Island
100. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
101. Oddbods
102. Only An Excuse?
103. Operation Good Guys
104. A Prince Among Men
105. Rab C. Nesbitt
106. Renford Rejects
107. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
108. Rex The Runt
109. Roger Roger
110. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
111. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
112. The Royle Family
113. The Saturday Night Armistice
114. Sermon From St Albion's
115. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
116. Smith & Jones
117. So Graham Norton
118. The Stand Up Show
119. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
120. Stanley Baxter In Person
121. Stella Street
122. Stressed Eric
123. Ted & Ralph
124. That Peter Kay Thing
125. They Think It's All Over
126. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
127. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
128. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
129. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
130. Tottenham 2
131. Trigger Happy TV
132. Turning Tricks
133. TV Offal
134. Unfinished Business
135. (Un)natural Acts
136. The Vicar Of Dibley
137. Victoria Wood Still Standing
138. Vinyl Tap
139. What's A Carry On?
140. You Are Here
141. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
142. 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. Ballylenon
9. The Big Town All Stars
10. Blue Jam
11. The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
12. Bookcases
13. Bussmann And Quantick Kingsize
14. Chambers
15. The Cheese Shop Presents: The Butter Factor
16. Chewin' The Fat
17. Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
18. Choice Grenfell
19. The Curried Goat Show
20. Dan And Nick: The Wildebeest Years
21. Facts And Fancies
22. Five Squeezy Pieces
23. The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
24. The Ghost Train
25. Girlies
26. The Goldfish Bowl
27. Goodness Gracious Me
28. Hearing With Hegley
29. If You're So Clever, Why Aren't You Rich?
30. I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
31. In The Chair
32. Just A Minute
33. King Street Junior
34. Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
35. Like They've Never Been Gone
36. Love 40-New Balls Please
37. The Mark Steel Revolution
38. The Motion Show
39. The News Huddlines
40. The News Quiz
41. No Commitments
42. The Now Show
43. Old Harry's Game
44. Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
45. Rent
46. Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
47. The Shuttleworths
48. The Smith Lectures
49. Spike At 80
50. Stand Up Two
51. Stereonation
52. Talking Comedy
53. Turns Of The Century
54. The Very World Of Milton Jones
55. Visiting Julia
56. Week Ending
57. 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