• 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 TV comedy broadcast in 1998

• (Un)natural Acts
• 2point4 Children
• A Many Splintered Thing
• A Prince Among Men
• Adam's Family Tree
• Alan Davies - Urban Trauma
• Alexei Sayle's Merry Go Round
• As Time Goes By
• Babes In The Wood
• Barking
• Big Train
• Billy Connolly's One Night Stand
• Birds Of A Feather
• Blackadder
• Blind Men
• Bob Monkhouse - Over The Limit
• Bob Monkhouse On Campus
• Bring Me Sunshine - The Heart And Soul Of Eric Morecambe
• Carry On Darkly
• ChuckleVision
• Clinton: His Struggle With Dirt
• Cold Feet
• Comedy Nation
• Comedy Store
• dinnerladies
• Dressing For Breakfast
• Drop The Dead Donkey
• Europigeon
• Faith In The Future
• Father Ted
• French And Saunders
• Funny Women
• Gagging For It
• Game On
• Get Real
• Golden Years
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• 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?
• If I Ruled The World
• In Exile
• In The Presence Of Julian Clary
• In The Red
• Is It Bill Bailey?
• Is It Legal?
• Jack & The Beanstalk
• Jack Dee: Live At The London Palladium
• Jeff Green Up West
• Jenny Eclair - Top Bitch
• Jenny Eclair: The Platinum Collection
• Jim Davidson - So Far
• Jo Brand's Christmas Log
• Jonathan Creek
• Keeping Mum
• Kiss Me Kate
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Lenny Goes To Town
• Lost In France
• Loved By You
• March In Windy City
• Men Behaving Badly
• Microsoap
• Mr. Wymi
• My Summer With Des
• Never Mind The Buzzcocks
• Norman Ormal: A Very Political Turtle
• Oddbods
• Only An Excuse?
• Renford Rejects
• Reputations: Kenneth Williams
• Rex The Runt
• Sermon From St Albion's
• Slap! - Love, Lies And Lipstick
• Stella Street
• Stressed Eric
• That Peter Kay Thing
• The 11 O'Clock Show
• The Baldy Man
• The Ben Elton Show
• The Best Of British
• The British Comedy Awards
• The Comic Strip Presents...
• The Creatives
• The Freddie Starr Show
• The Jackie Mason Show
• The Last Salute
• The Mrs Merton Show
• The Royle Family
• The Thoughts Of Chairman Alf
• The Young Person's Guide To Becoming A Rock Star
• The Zig And Zag Show
• Things To Do In Hoxton When You're Dead
• This Morning With Richard Not Judy
• Tottenham 2
• Trigger Happy TV
• Unfinished Business
• Victoria Wood Still Standing
• Whose Line Is It Anyway?
• You Are Here

All radio comedy broadcast in 1998

• Armstrong And Miller
• Babblewick Hall
• Blue Jam
• Chambers
• Chewin' The Fat
• Children's Hour... With Armstrong And Miller
• Dinner Ladies
• Facts And Fancies
• Hearing With Hegley
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• In The Chair
• King Street Junior
• Like They've Never Been Gone
• Old Harry's Game
• Paradise Lost In Cyberspace
• Rent
• Sean Lock's 15 Minutes Of Misery
• The 99p Challenge
• The Alan Davies Show
• The Bona History Of Julian And Sandy
• The Galton And Simpson Playhouse
• The Mark Steel Revolution
• The Motion Show
• The News Huddlines
• The News Quiz
• The Shuttleworths
• The Very World Of Milton Jones
• Turns Of The Century
• Week Ending
• World Of Pub

Film comedies released in 1998

• Bring Me The Head Of Mavis Davis
• Divorcing Jack
• Girls' Night
• If Only...
• Lock, Stock And Two Smoking Barrels
• My Son The Fanatic
• Sliding Doors
• Stiff Upper Lips
• Still Crazy
• Up 'N' Under
• What Rats Won't Do