List of comedies

Theatrical Comedies

France

• La Puce à l'Oreille (trans. "A Flea in Her Ear") by Georges Feydeau

Russia

• The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol (made into the Danny Kaye screen musical The Inspector General.)

United Kingdom

• The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde (adapted for film and television numerous times)
• Much Ado About Nothing by William Shakespeare
• Rocky Horror Show by Richard O'Brien
• Operettas by Gilbert and Sullivan including Patience, Iolanthe, The Mikado, The Pirates of Penzance and many others.

United States

• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Into the Woods
• You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
• Many American stage musicals have a strong comedic element.

Radio Comedies

Canada

• Double Exposure
• The Royal Canadian Air Farce
• Spring Thaw

United Kingdom

• Beyond Our Ken
• The Clitheroe Kid
• The Glums
• The Goon Show
• Hancock's Half Hour
• Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
• I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
• I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
• It's That Man Again
• The Men from the Ministry
• My Word
• The Navy Lark
• The News Huddlines
• The Now Show
• Old Harry's Game
• Radio Active
• Round the Horne
• The Sunday Format

USA

• Amos & Andy
• The Jack Benny Show
• Burns & Allen
• Col. Stoopnagle & Bud
• Audience of Two

Television Comedies

Australia

• Australia, You're Standing in It (sketch comedy)
• The D-Generation (sketch comedy)
• Fast Forward (sketch comedy)
• Full Frontal (sketch comedy)
• Hey Dad! (sitcom)
• Kingswood Country (sitcom)
• The Late Show (sketch comedy)
• The Paul Hogan Show (sketch comedy)
• Mother and Son (sitcom)
• Kath and Kim (sitcom)
• The Games (satire/sitcom)
• Frontline (satire/sitcom)

Canada

• An American in Canada
• Blackfly
• CODCO
• Four on the Floor
• JR Digs
• Just for Laughs
• Kids In The Hall
• The Red Green Show
• Rick Mercer's Monday Report
• Royal Canadian Air Farce
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• Trailer Park Boys
• Wayne & Shuster
• XPM

United Kingdom

• Absolutely Fabulous
• 'Allo 'Allo!
• Are You Being Served?
• As Time Goes By
• At Last the 1948 Show
• Birds of a Feather
• Blackadder
• Black Books
• Bottom
• Bremmer, Bird and Fortune
• Brittas Empire
• Cambridge Circus
• Chef!
• Coupling
• Dad
• Dad's Army
• 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
• Goodness Gracious Me
• Hancock's Half Hour (later known as Hancock)
• Harry Enfield and Chums
• Hi De Hi
• Hippies
• I'm Alan Partridge
• It Ain't Half Hot Mum
• Keeping Mum
• Keeping Up Appearances
• Knowing Me Knowing You With Alan Partridge
• Last of the Summer Wine
• The League of Gentlemen
• Let Them Eat Cake
• The Likely Lads
• 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
• O Dr. Beeching
• The Office
• One Foot in the Grave
• Only Fools and Horses
• On The Buses
• Open All Hours
• Porridge
• Q5
• Red Dwarf
• Rising Damp
• The Royle Family
• Some Mothers Do 'ave 'em
• Sorry!
• Spaced
• Steptoe and Son
• Sykes
• That Was The Week That Was (familiarly known as "TW3")
• The Office
• The Thin Blue Line
• Three Up - Two Down
• Till Death Us Do Part
• TLC
• To the Manor Born
• Two Point Four Children
• 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 (television series)

USA

• 3rd Rock from the Sun
• 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter
• Addams Family
• All in the Family
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Andy Richter Controls the Universe
• Arliss
• Baby Bob
• Barney Miller
• The Ben Stiller Show
• Bewitched
• Bilko!
• The Brady Bunch
• Candid Camera
• Cheers
• Chico and the Man
• Coupling
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Designing Women
• Dream On
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Eve
• Family Guy
• Family Matters
• Frasier
• Friends
• Full House
• Gilligan's Island
• Gilmore Girls
• The Golden Girls
• Good Morning Miami
• Good Times
• Happy Days
• The Honeymooners
• I Dream of Jeannie
• King of the Hill
• The Larry Sanders Show
• Laverne and Shirley
• The Mary Tyler Moore Show
• M*A*S*H
• Maude
• Monk
• Mork and Mindy
• The Munsters
• The Muppet Show
• The Nanny
• No Time for Sergeants
• The Partridge Family
• The Phil Silvers Show
• Police Squad!
• The Real McCoys
• Rhoda
• Sabrina
• Scrubs
• Seinfeld
• Sesame Street
• Sex and the City
• The Simpsons
• South Park
• Spin City
• Suddenly Susan
• Taxi
• Three's Company
• Townies
• Two and a Half Men

• Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place
• Welcome Back, Kotter
• WKRP in Cincinnati

See also:

• Comedy film
• Farce

Referenced By