• Peep Show was Comedy Of The Year 2008 in The Comedy.co.uk Awards
• Hot Fuzz was named Best Film at the British Comedy Awards. Winners
• David O'Doherty won the Edinburgh Comedy Award
• The Wallace & Gromit special A Matter Of Loaf and Death was the most watched TV broadcast of 2008
• Russell Brand and Jonathan Ross make a prank call on Radio 2. 'Sachsgate' causes a media storm and ushers in an era of caution at the BBC. [link=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russell_Brand_Show_prank_telephone_calls_row]Details[/l
• BCG news archive for 2008

Notable comedy series that started in 2008

All TV comedy broadcast in 2008

• 8 Out Of 10 Cats
• A Matter Of Loaf And Death
• After You've Gone
• Al Murray's Happy Hour
• Ape
• Argumental
• Arthur Smith's Comedy Club
• Barely Legal
• Bear Behaving Badly
• Beautiful People
• Beehive
• Benidorm
• Bike Squad
• Blackadder Exclusive: The Whole Rotten Saga
• Blackadder Rides Again
• Bottom Live
• Bottom Live 2001: An Arse Oddity
• Bottom Live 2003: Weapons Grade Y-Fronts Tour
• Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island
• Bottom Live: The Big Number Two Tour
• Britain's Got The Pop Factor And Possibly A New Celebrity Jesus Christ Soapstar Superstar Strictly On Ice
• Celebrity Juice
• Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe
• ChuckleVision
• Clash Of The Santas
• Clone
• Comedy Classics
• Comedy Connections
• Comedy Live Presents: Russell Brand And Friends
• Comedy Sketchbook
• Comedy Songs - The Pop Years
• Comedy Store
• Coming Of Age
• Commercial Breakdown
• Dani's House
• Dear Green Place
• Delta Forever
• Dolly & Laura
• Eddie Izzard: Circle
• Eddie Izzard: Dress To Kill
• Empty
• Fonejacker
• Frank Skinner Live At The Birmingham Hippodrome
• Frankie Howerd: Rather You Than Me
• Freezing
• Friday Night With Jonathan Ross
• Funny Business
• Fur TV
• Gary's War
• Gavin & Stacey
• Glendogie Bogey
• Greatest Christmas Comedy Moments
• Greatest Comedy Catchphrases
• Hancock And Joan
• Harry & Paul
• Harry Hill's TV Burp
• Have I Got News For You
• Headcases
• Headwreckers
• High Hopes
• Honest
• Hotel Babylon
• Hotel Trubble
• How Not To Live Your Life
• Hughie Green, Most Sincerely
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Ideal
• Idiots Of Ants
• Jam & Jerusalem
• Jesusboy And The Goatherd
• Jimmy Carr Live: Comedian
• Jonathan Ross Salutes Dad's Army
• Katy Brand's Big Ass Show
• Keith Lemon's Very Brilliant World Tour
• Kingdom
• Lab Rats
• Last Of The Summer Wine
• Laura, Ben And Him
• Lead Balloon
• Lee Mack Live
• Lenny Henry.TV
• Life Bites
• Live At The Apollo
• Love Soup
• Lunch Monkeys
• Marc Wootton Exposed
• Marty Feldman - Six Degrees Of Separation
• Massive
• MeeBOX
• Mock The Week
• Mouth To Mouth
• Moving Wallpaper
• Mr And Mrs Fandango
• Mutual Friends
• My Family
• Never Better
• Never Mind The Buzzcocks
• No Heroics
• Olivia Lee's Naughty Bits
• Omid Djalili: No Agenda
• Only An Excuse?
• Outnumbered
• Pappy's Fun Club
• Parents Of The Band
• Peep Show
• Placebo
• Pulling
• Rab C. Nesbitt
• Ricky Gervais: Fame
• Russell Brand's Ponderland
• Scallywagga
• School Of Comedy
• Shameless
• Shooting Stars
• Silly Money
• Slaterwood
• Sorry, I've Got No Head
• Stanley Baxter: Now & Then
• Star Stories
• Sunshine
• Teenage Kicks
• Terry Pratchett's The Colour Of Magic
• Thank God You're Here
• That Mitchell And Webb Look
• The Andi Osho Show
• The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year
• The British Comedy Awards
• The Comedy Map Of Britain
• The Cup
• The Curse Of Steptoe
• The Frost Report Is Back!
• The Graham Norton Show
• The Inbetweeners
• The Incredible Will & Greg
• The Invisibles
• The IT Crowd
• The Kevin Bishop Show
• The Late Edition
• The Man Who Made Eric & Ernie
• The Peter Serafinowicz Show
• The Royle Family
• The Sick Animation Show
• The Smith & Jones Sketchbook
• The Sunday Night Project
• The Viewing
• The What In The World? Quiz
• The Wrong Door
• Think Tank
• Tonightly
• Torn Up Tales
• Touch Me, I'm Karen Taylor
• Trexx And Flipside
• Two Pints Of Lager And A Packet Of Crisps
• We Are Most Amused
• What The Dickens?
• When Were We Funniest?
• Who Is Tom Allen?
• Wonderland: The Secret Life Of Norman Wisdom Aged 92 3/4
• Work Experience
• Would I Lie To You?

All radio comedy broadcast in 2008

• 15 Minute Musical
• 4 At The Fringe
• 4 Stands Up
• A Series Of Psychotic Episodes
• A Week With Adam Buxton
• Act Your Age
• Alan And Jean's Incredible Journey
• Alan Carr's Comedy Outings
• All Bar Luke
• An Hour With Jon Pertwee
• Another Case Of Milton Jones
• Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive
• Bleak Expectations
• Blinded By Science
• Buy Me Up TV
• Cabin Pressure
• Carry On Britain
• Carry On Now And Then
• Chain Reaction
• Clare In The Community
• Clive Anderson's Chat Room
• Cowards
• Danny Robins Music Therapy
• Daunt And Dervish
• Development
• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
• Down The Line
• Ed Reardon's Week
• Edge Falls
• Fabulous
• Fags, Mags And Bags
• Fighting Talk
• Footlights At 125: A Retrospective
• Four Sad Faces
• Frank
• Genius
• Good Evening
• Great Lives - Joyce Grenfell
• Gus Murdoch's Sacred Cows
• Have Your Cake
• Heresy
• Higher
• Hot Gossip
• Hudson And Pepperdine Save The Planet
• Hut 33
• I Wish To Apologise For My Part In The Apocalypse
• I've Never Seen Star Wars
• Inspector Steine
• It's David O'Doherty Time
• Jest A Minute
• John Finnemore, Apparently
• Just A Minute
• Kicking The Habit
• Laura Solon: Talking And Not Talking
• Laurence And Gus: Hearts And Minds
• Listen Against
• Look Away Now
• MacAulay And Co
• Mark Watson Makes The World Substantially Better
• Miranda Hart's Joke Shop
• Mouth Trap
• Nebulous
• New World Order
• No Hard Feelings
• On Mardle Fen
• On The Blog
• One
• Operation Charlie
• Out To Lunch
• Pappy's Fun Club
• Pick Ups
• Play And Record
• Political Animal
• Potting On
• Psmith In The City
• Quartet
• Rhod Gilbert's Leaving Llanbobl
• Rudy's Rare Records
• Sarah Millican: Keep Your Chins Up
• Says On The Tin
• Scrooby Trevithick
• Sean Lock And Friends At The Fringe
• Self-Storage
• Space Hacks
• Spats
• Spending My Inheritance
• Spike's Lookalikes
• Strangers On Trains
• Terry Pratchett's Night Watch
• That's No Job For An Asian
• The Big Night In...
• The Blagger's Guide
• The Brightonomicon
• The Cornwell Estate
• The Don't Watch With Mother Sketchbook
• The Genuine Particle
• The Jason Byrne Show
• The Ladies
• The Lawrence Sweeney Mix
• The Maltby Collection
• The Museum Of Curiosity
• The News Quiz
• The Now Show
• The Odd Half Hour
• The Party Line
• The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
• The Playwright And The Grammarian
• The Secret World
• The Spaceship
• The Stanley Baxter Playhouse
• The Unbelievable Truth
• Thoroughly Modest Mollie
• Those That Can't
• Tilt
• Tina C Goes Down Under: The Aborogynal Monologues
• Tomorrow, Today!
• Two Pipe Problems
• Undone
• Wil Hodgson: Straight Outta Chippenham
• Will Smith's Mid-life Crisis Management

2008 British comedy films

• A Bunch Of Amateurs
• Angus, Thongs And Perfect Snogging
• Bigga Than Ben
• Caught In The Act
• Dean Spanley
• Easy Virtue
• Happy-Go-Lucky
• Son Of Rambow
• The Cottage
• The Good Night
• Three And Out
• Wild Child