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. A Big Hand For Sooty
18. Big Train
19. Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
20. Birds Of A Feather
21. Blackadder
22. Blankety Blank
23. Bob Monkhouse On Campus
24. Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
25. Bodger & Badger
26. Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
27. The British Comedy Awards
28. Carry On Darkly
29. ChuckleVision
30. Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
31. Cold Feet
32. Comedy Nation
33. The Comedy Network
34. Comedy Store
35. The Comic Strip Presents...
36. The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
37. The Creatives
38. Dear John: A Tribute To John Wells
39. Denis Norden's Laughter File
40. Dennis The Menace & Gnasher
41. dinnerladies
42. Dressing For Breakfast
43. Drop The Dead Donkey
44. Duck Patrol
45. The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
46. Europigeon
47. Faith In The Future
48. Families At War
49. Fantasy Football
50. Father Ted
51. First On Four
52. The Freddie Starr Show
53. French And Saunders
54. Funny Women
55. Gagging For It
56. Game On
57. The Generation Game
58. Get Real
59. Get Up, Stand Up
60. Goodness Gracious Me
61. Goodnight Sweetheart
62. Grafters
63. Hale And Pace
64. Harry Enfield & Chums
65. Harry Hill
66. Have I Got News For You
67. Heartburn Hotel
68. Heroes Of Comedy
69. Holding The Baby
70. Homie & Away
71. How Do You Want Me?
72. Hububb
73. Humdrum
74. If I Ruled The World
75. In Exile
76. In The Presence Of Julian Clary
77. In The Red
78. Is It Bill Bailey?
79. Is It Legal?
80. I Suppose You Think That's Funny
81. Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
82. The Jackie Mason Show
83. Jack & The Beanstalk
84. Jeff Green Up West
85. Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
86. Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
87. Jim Davidson - So Far
88. Jo Brand's Christmas Log
89. The Johnny Vegas Television Show
90. Jonathan Creek
91. Keeping Mum
92. Kiss Me Kate
93. Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
94. Last Of The Summer Wine
95. The Last Salute
96. Lenny Goes To Town
97. A Loose Canon
98. Lost In France
99. A Many Splintered Thing
100. March In Windy City
101. The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
102. Men Behaving Badly
103. Microsoap
104. The Mrs Merton Show
105. My Summer With Des
106. My Wonderful Life
107. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
108. Neville's Island
109. Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
110. Not A Lot Of People Know That
111. Oddbods
112. Only An Excuse?
113. Operation Good Guys
114. Playing Mum
115. A Prince Among Men
116. Rab C. Nesbitt
117. Renford Rejects
118. Reputations: Kenneth Williams
119. Rex The Runt
120. Roger Roger
121. Rory Bremner: From Blair To Here
122. Rory Bremner... Who Else?
123. The Royle Family
124. Satellite City
125. The Saturday Night Armistice
126. The Secret Policeman's Ball
127. Sermon From St Albion's
128. Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
129. Smith & Jones
130. So Graham Norton
131. The Stand Up Show
132. Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
133. Stanley Baxter In Person
134. Stella Street
135. Stressed Eric
136. Ted & Ralph
137. That Peter Kay Thing
138. They Think It's All Over
139. Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
140. This Morning With Richard Not Judy
141. The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
142. Tommy Tiernan Is Alive
143. Tottenham 2
144. Trigger Happy TV
145. Turning Tricks
146. TV Offal
147. Unfinished Business
148. (Un)natural Acts
149. The Vicar Of Dibley
150. Victoria Wood Still Standing
151. Vinyl Tap
152. What's A Carry On?
153. Whose Line Is It Anyway?
154. You Are Here
155. The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
156. 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