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
- The 11 O'Clock Show
- 2point4 Children
- The Adam And Joe Show
- Adam's Family Tree
- Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
- Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
- Armstrong And Miller
- As Time Goes By
- An Audience With...
- Babes In The Wood
- Barking
- The Ben Elton Show
- The Best Of British
- Big Train
- Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
- Birds Of A Feather
- Blackadder
- Blankety Blank
- Bob Monkhouse On Campus
- Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
- Bodger & Badger
- Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
- The British Comedy Awards
- Carry On Darkly
- ChuckleVision
- Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
- Cold Feet
- Comedy Nation
- Comedy Store
- The Comic Strip Presents...
- The Crazy World Of Joe Pasquale
- The Creatives
- dinnerladies
- Dressing For Breakfast
- Drop The Dead Donkey
- Duck Patrol
- The End Of The Year Show With Angus Deayton
- Europigeon
- Faith In The Future
- Families At War
- Father Ted
- The Freddie Starr Show
- French And Saunders
- Funny Women
- Gagging For It
- Game On
- Get Real
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Goodnight Sweetheart
- Grafters
- Hale And Pace
- Harry Enfield & Chums
- Harry Hill
- Have I Got News For You
- Heartburn Hotel
- Heroes Of Comedy
- Holding The Baby
- Homie & Away
- How Do You Want Me?
- Humdrum
- If I Ruled The World
- In Exile
- In The Presence Of Julian Clary
- In The Red
- Is It Bill Bailey?
- Is It Legal?
- Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
- The Jackie Mason Show
- Jack & The Beanstalk
- Jeff Green Up West
- Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
- Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
- Jim Davidson - So Far
- Jo Brand's Christmas Log
- The Johnny Vegas Television Show
- Jonathan Creek
- Keeping Mum
- Kiss Me Kate
- Knowing Me, Knowing You... With Alan Partridge
- Last Of The Summer Wine
- The Last Salute
- Lenny Goes To Town
- Lost In France
- A Many Splintered Thing
- March In Windy City
- The Mark Thomas Comedy Product
- Men Behaving Badly
- Microsoap
- The Mrs Merton Show
- My Summer With Des
- Never Mind The Buzzcocks
- Neville's Island
- Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
- Oddbods
- Only An Excuse?
- Operation Good Guys
- A Prince Among Men
- Rab C. Nesbitt
- Renford Rejects
- Reputations: Kenneth Williams
- Rex The Runt
- Roger Roger
- The Royle Family
- The Saturday Night Armistice
- Sermon From St Albion's
- Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
- So Graham Norton
- The Stand Up Show
- Stanley Baxter: His Best Bits!
- Stella Street
- Stressed Eric
- Ted & Ralph
- That Peter Kay Thing
- Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
- This Morning With Richard Not Judy
- The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
- Tottenham 2
- Trigger Happy TV
- Unfinished Business
- (Un)natural Acts
- The Vicar Of Dibley
- Victoria Wood Still Standing
- What's A Carry On?
- You Are Here
- The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
- The Zig And Zag Show
All new radio comedy from 1998
- 4 At The Store
- The 99p Challenge
- The Alan Davies Show
- The (Almost) Accidental Adventures Of Bell And Todd
- Armstrong And Miller
- Babblewick Hall
- Ballylenon
- Blue Jam
- The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
- Bookcases
- Chambers
- Chewin' The Fat
- Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
- Choice Grenfell
- Facts And Fancies
- The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
- The Ghost Train
- Goodness Gracious Me
- Hearing With Hegley
- I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
- In The Chair
- King Street Junior
- Life, Death And Sex With Mike And Sue
- Like They've Never Been Gone
- The Mark Steel Revolution
- The Motion Show
- The News Huddlines
- The News Quiz
- The Now Show
- Old Harry's Game
- Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
- Rent
- Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
- The Shuttleworths
- The Smith Lectures
- Stand Up Two
- Talking Comedy
- Turns Of The Century
- The Very World Of Milton Jones
- World Of Pub