British comedy

British Comedy, in film, radio and television, is known for its consistently quirky characters, plots and settings, and has produced some of the most famous and memorable comic actors and characters in the last fifty years.

List of some British comedy programmes

Listed below are just a few of the thousands of British comedies. For a more complete list please see the external links at the bottom of this page.

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See also British sitcom.

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• 2point4 Children
• Absolutely Fabulous
• Alistair McGowan's Big Impression
• 'Allo 'Allo!
• Are You Being Served?
• As Time Goes By
• At Last the 1948 Show
• Birds of a Feather
• Blackadder
• Black Books
• Bo Selecta
• Bottom
• Brass Eye
• Bremner, Bird and Fortune
• Brittas Empire
• Cambridge Circus
• Chef!
• Chance in a Million
• Chelmsford 123
• Coupling
• Dad
• Dad's Army
• The Day Today
• Do Not Adjust Your Set
• Drop The Dead Donkey
• Ever Decreasing Circles
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• The Fast Show
• Father Ted
• Fawlty Towers
• The Frost Report
• George and Mildred
• Gimme Gimme Gimme
• Give My Head Peace
• The Goodies
• The Good Life
• The Goon Show
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Hancock's Half Hour (later known as Hancock)
• Harry Enfield and Chums
• Hi De Hi!
• Hippies
• Home to Roost
• I'm Alan Partridge
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
• Jam
• Keeping Mum
• Keeping Up Appearances
• Knowing Me Knowing You
• Last of the Summer Wine
• The League of Gentlemen
• Let Them Eat Cake
• The Likely Lads
• Little Britain
• Maid Marian and her Merry Men
• Man about the House
• Men Behaving Badly
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Morecambe and Wise
• Mr. Bean
• My Family
• My Hero
• The New Statesman
• Not the Nine O'Clock News
• Oh, Doctor Beeching!
• The Office
• One Foot in the Grave
• Only Fools and Horses
• On the Buses
• Open All Hours
• Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights
• Porridge
• Q5
• Red Dwarf
• Rising Damp
• Round the Horne
• The Royle Family
• Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
• Sorry!
• Spaced
• Steptoe and Son
• Surgical Spirit
• Sykes
• That Was The Week That Was (familiarly known as "TW3")
• The Thin Blue Line
• Three Up - Two Down
• Till Death Us Do Part
• TLC
• To the Manor Born
• The Two Ronnies
• Up Pompeii
• The Vicar of Dibley
• What Ever Happened to the Likely Lads? (continued The Likely Lads series)
• Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, its continuation
• The Young Ones