• Ronnie Corbett and Victoria Wood were amongst the deaths in this year
• BCG news archive for 2016

Notable comedies debuting in 2016

All TV comedy broadcast in 2016

• 4 O'Clock Club
• 8 Out Of 10 Cats
• 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown
• @elevenish
• A Granny's Guide To The Modern World
• A League Of Their Own
• A Year In The Life Of A Year
• Agatha Raisin
• Al Porter In Ireland
• Alan Carr's Happy Hour
• Alan Carr: Chatty Man
• Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled
• Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle
• Alison Spittle In Ireland
• All About The McKenzies
• Almost Royal
• An Immigrant's Guide To Britain
• Are You Being Served?
• Artsnight: A Tribute To Carla Lane
• Behold The Monkey
• Benidorm
• Billionaire Boy
• Birds Of A Feather
• Blankety Blank
• Bob Monkhouse: The Last Stand
• Boomers
• Borderline
• Boy Meets Girl
• Brexageddon?!
• Brian Pern
• British Sitcom: 60 Years Of Laughing At Ourselves
• Broken Biscuits
• Burnistoun
• Camping
• Celebrity Advice Bureau
• Celebrity Juice
• Channel 4's Comedy Gala
• Charlie Brooker's Year Wipe
• Chris Ramsey: All Growed Up
• Citizen Khan
• Class Dismissed
• Cold Feet
• Comedy Central At The Comedy Store
• Counterfeit Cat
• Crashing
• Crazyhead
• Cuckoo
• Cunk On...
• Damned
• Danger Mouse
• Dara O Briain - Crowd Tickler
• Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit
• Dave Gorman: Modern Life Is Goodish
• Dawn French Live: 30 Million Minutes
• Diddy TV
• Diet Of Worms In Ireland
• Do Not Disturb
• Drifters
• Dropperz
• Drunk History
• Duck Quacks Don't Echo
• Dylan Moran: Like, Totally
• Eric Idle: Comedy Greats
• Flat TV
• Flowers
• Fresh Meat
• Friday Night Dinner
• Funny, Furry & Famous
• Gary: Tank Commander's Election Special
• Gasping
• Go Jetters
• Going Forward
• Goodnight Sweetheart
• Guz Khan's Horror: Frightbusters
• Hacker Time
• Hank Zipzer
• Harry Hill's Tea Time
• Have I Got News For You
• Hoff The Record
• Home From Home
• Horrible Histories
• Hospital People
• Hyper Mouse
• I Want My Wife Back
• I'm With Stupid
• Impractical Jokers UK
• Insert Name Here
• Inside No. 9
• It's Not Me, It's You
• Jack Dee's HelpDesk
• Jamie Demetriou's Horror: Oh God
• Jason Byrne In Ireland
• Jason Manford's Horror: That's The Spirit
• Jayde Adams's Horror: Bloody Tracy
• Jimmy Carr & The Science Of Laughter: A Horizon Special
• John Bishop In Conversation With...
• Jon Richardson: Nidiot
• Jonathan Creek
• Josh
• Justin's House
• Katherine Ryan In Ireland
• Ken Dodd: In His Own Words
• Kevin Bridges: A Whole Different Story
• Kiri Pritchard-McLean's Horror: I've Got Your Number
• Last Tango In Halifax
• Lenny Henry: A Life On Screen
• Les Dawson Forever
• Let's Do It: A Tribute To Victoria Wood
• Let's Play Darts
• Little Britain
• Little Roy
• Live At The Apollo
• Lookalikes
• Lost Sitcoms
• Lovesick
• Man Down
• Marley's Ghosts
• Matt Holness's Horror: Smutch
• Michael McIntyre's Big Show
• Mid Morning Matters With Alan Partridge
• Mock The Week
• Morgana Robinson's The Agency
• Motherland
• Mount Pleasant
• Mr Bean
• Mrs. Brown's Boys
• Mum
• Murder In Successville
• My Worst Job
• Newzoids
• Nigel Farage Gets His Life Back
• No Such Thing As The News
• Norman Wisdom Live
• Off Their Rockers
• Only An Excuse?
• Our Ex-Wife
• Outnumbered
• People Just Do Nothing
• Peter Cook & Dudley Moore: The Missing Sketches
• Peter Kay's Comedy Shuffle
• Peter Pan Goes Wrong
• Play To The Whistle
• Plebs
• Pop Sludge
• Porridge
• Power Monkeys
• QI
• Raised By Wolves
• Red Dwarf
• Richard E. Grant On... Ealing Comedies
• Rising Damp Fovever
• Room 101
• Ross Noble's Horror: The Catchment
• Rovers
• Russell Howard & Mum
• Safeword
• Sam Delaney's News Thing
• Scheiffer Bates: I Con
• Scot Squad
• Scream Street
• Seann Walsh In Ireland
• Second Opinion
• Shaun The Sheep
• Siblings
• So Awkward
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• Sorry, I Didn't Know
• Spot Bots
• Stag
• Stand Up Central
• Steen Raskopoulos's Horror: Scare BnB
• Stella
• Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle
• Still Game
• Still Open All Hours
• Stop/Start
• Sunny D
• Taskmaster
• The Aliens
• The Almost Impossible Gameshow
• The Big Fat Quiz Of Everything
• The Big Fat Quiz Of The Year
• The Circuit
• The Comic Strip Presents...
• The Coopers Vs The Rest
• The Dog Ate My Homework
• The Entire Universe
• The Football's On
• The Funny Thing About...
• The Graham Norton Show
• The Graham Norton Story
• The Increasingly Poor Decisions Of Todd Margaret
• The Interviews
• The Jonathan Ross Show
• The Keith Lemon Sketch Show
• The Last Leg
• The Many Faces Of...
• The Morecambe And Wise Story: Look Back In Laughter
• The Outcast Comic
• The Peter Kay Story
• The Purple Pigeon
• The Rebel
• The Roots Of Monty Python
• The T-Boy Show
• The Undiscovered Peter Cook
• The Windsors
• Tonight At The London Palladium
• Tracey Ullman's Show
• Trigger Happy TV
• Trollied
• Twirlywoos
• Two Doors Down
• Unspun With Matt Forde
• Up North
• Upstart Crow
• Very British Problems
• Vicious
• Virtually Famous
• Walliams & Friend
• Wasted
• We Have Been Watching
• We Love Sitcom
• We The Jury
• West Skerra Light
• What's The Facts
• Witless
• Would I Lie To You?
• Yonderland
• You're Back In The Room
• Young Hyacinth
• Zapped
• Zig And Zag

All radio comedy broadcast in 2016

• 15 Minute Musical
• 4 Extra Stands Up
• 52 First Impressions With David Quantick
• A Beginner's Guide To India
• A Funny Kind Of...
• Alexei Sayle's Imaginary Sandwich Bar
• All Mouth And Trousers
• All Those Women
• Andrew Maxwell's Late Agenda
• Angela Barnes: You Can't Take It With You
• Asian Network Comedy
• Bad Salsa
• Barry's Lunch Club
• BBC 1Xtra & BBC Local Radio Present The Comedy Club
• BBC New Comedy Award
• Be Lucky
• Bennett Arron Worries About...
• Boswell's Lives
• Breaking The News
• Bunk Bed
• Chain Reaction
• Clare In The Community
• Cooking In A Bedsitter
• Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show!
• Couples
• Daf's Cabs
• Damn The Torpedoes!
• Daphne Sounds Expensive
• Dave Podmore
• David Sedaris: Death Knows No Season
• Dead Ringers
• Deborah Frances-White Rolls The Dice
• Desolation Jests
• Domestic Science
• Don't Make Me Laugh
• Dot
• Ed Reardon's Week
• Elis In Euroland
• Elis James' Pantheon Of Heroes
• Elis James's Guide To Machynlleth
• Expenses Only
• Fags, Mags And Bags
• Fighting Talk
• Forty Weeks
• Fred MacAulay's Wet Hot Political Summer
• Fresh From The Fringe
• Gaby's Talking Pictures
• Gein's Family Giftshop Present...
• Guilt Trip
• Gyles Brandreth's What Ho, Your Majesty?
• Hackers And Humphreys All
• Henry Normal
• Heresy
• Hold The Front Page
• Holding Back The Tide
• How Does That Make You Feel?
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• Incredible Women
• It's Jocelyn
• It's Not What You Know
• Jack Rooke: Good Grief
• Jail Mates
• Jest A Minute
• Jesting About
• John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme
• John Shuttleworth's Lounge Music
• Johnnie Walker Meets...
• Josh Howie's Losing It
• Josie Long: Romance And Adventure
• Just A Minute
• Keep Calman Carry On
• Kült
• Lance
• Lemn Sissay's Origin Stories
• Lenny Henry: Rogue's Gallery
• Lewis Macleod's Wired News
• Little Lifetimes By Jenny Eclair
• Love In Recovery
• Lunch
• Mae Martin's Guide To 21st Century Sexuality
• Man At The Helm
• Mark Steel's In Town
• Mark Watson Talks A Bit About Life
• Michael Fabbri's Dyslexicon
• Monsignor Quixote
• Much Ado About Comedy
• Musical Variations: The Life Of Angela Morley
• My Teenage Diary
• Natalie Haynes Stands Up For The Classics
• Natural Histories Comedy Awards
• Newsjack
• Nurse
• Our Evening With Gareth Bale
• Paul Sinha's History Revision
• Plum House
• Polyoaks
• Radio 4 At The Machynlleth Comedy Festival With Elis James
• Radio Active
• Remembering Ronnie Corbett
• Ria Lina's School Of Riason
• Rich Hall's (US) Breakdown
• Rumblings From The Rafters
• Sam Simmons Is Not A People Person
• Siadwel
• Simon Evans Goes To Market
• Small Scenes
• Some Hay In A Manger
• Spoot!
• Spotlight Tonight With Nish Kumar
• Start/Stop
• State Of The Nations
• Still Loving Thy Neighbour?
• Sweats
• Taking Care Of Business
• Talking To Strangers
• Terry Alderton: Crazy Now
• TEZ Talks
• The Accidental AM
• The Art Of Warm-Up
• The BBC Norfolk New Comedy Show
• The Break
• The Brig Society
• The Casebook Of Max And Ivan
• The Chastity Butterworth Show
• The Christmas That Goes Wrong
• The Cold Swedish Winter
• The Croft & Pearce Show
• The Fair Intellectual Club
• The Future Of Radio
• The Harri-Parris' Radio Show
• The Infinite Monkey Cage
• The King's Men
• The Leak
• The Literary Adventures Of Mr Brown
• The Machynlleth Comedy Festival Showcase
• The Museum Of Curiosity
• The News Quiz
• The Now Show
• The Penny Dreadfuls Present...
• The Pin
• The Rest Is History
• The Stanley Baxter Playhouse
• The Tim Vine Chat Show
• The Unbelievable Truth
• The Unexplainers
• The Victorian In The Wall
• The World Of Simon Rich
• Tinsel Girl
• To Hull And Back
• Tom Wrigglesworth's Hang Ups
• Victoria Wood - "Not Seen On TV"
• Viz: An Unfeasibly Large Success
• Way Out East
• Welcome To Wherever You Are
• When Kenny Met The Fab Four
• Williams On The Wireless
• Women Talking About Cars

Film comedies released in 2016

• Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie
• Adult Life Skills
• At-Issue
• Bachelor Games
• Benny
• Black Mountain Poets
• Breaking The Bank
• Bridget Jones's Baby
• Burn Burn Burn
• Carry On Doctors
• ChickLit
• Dad's Army
• David Brent: Life On The Road
• Early Bird
• Eddie The Eagle
• Essex Spacebin
• Florence Foster Jenkins
• Gangsters, Gamblers And Geezers
• Golden Years
• Grimsby
• Hot Property
• K-Shop
• Keeping It Up
• Kicking Off
• Lost In Karastan
• Nina Forever
• Set The Thames On Fire
• Taking Stock
• The Comedian's Guide To Survival
• The Darkest Universe
• The Greasy Strangler
• The Weekend
• War On Everyone
• White Island
• Who Killed Nelson Nutmeg?