List of comedies

A list of comedies by medium and country of origin.

Table of contents 1 Theatrical Comedies 1.1 France 1.2 Russia 1.3 United Kingdom 1.4 United States 2 Radio Comedies 2.1 Canada 2.2 United Kingdom 2.3 USA 3 Television Comedies 3.1 Australia 3.2 Canada 3.3 United Kingdom 3.4 USA

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

• 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
• My Word
• The Navy Lark[?]
• Old Harry's Game
• Radio Active
• Round the Horne

USA

• Amos & Andy
• The Jack Benny Show
• Burns & Allen[?]
• Col. Stoopnagle & Bud[?]

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

• CODCO[?]
• Four on the Floor
• Just for Laughs[?]
• Kids In The Hall
• The Red Green Show[?]
• The Royal Canadian Air Farce[?]
• This Hour Has 22 Minutes
• Wayne & Shuster[?]

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
• 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[?]
• The League of Gentlemen
• Let Them Eat Cake[?]
• The Likely Lads
• Maid Marian and her Merry Men
• Men Behaving Badly
• Monty Pythons Flying Circus
• Morecambe and Wise
• Mr. Bean
• My Family[?]
• My Hero[?]
• The New Statesman[?]
• Not the Nine O'Clock News
• O Dr. Beeching[?]
• 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
• 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
• Vicar of Dibley[?]
• What Ever Happened to the Likely Lads? (continued the The Likely Lads Series)
• Yes, Minister and Yes, Prime Minister, its continuation
• The Young Ones

USA

• Addams Family
• The Andy Griffith Show
• Andy Richter Controls the Universe
• Arliss[?]
• Baby Bob[?]
• The Ben Stiller Show[?]
• Bewitched[?]
• The Brady Bunch
• Candid Camera
• Cheers
• Coupling (US)
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• Designing Women
• Dream On[?]
• Everybody Loves Raymond
• Family Guy
• Frasier
• Friends
• Full House
• Gilligan's Island
• [Gilmore Girls]]
• Good Morning Miami[?]
• Happy Days
• The Honeymooners
• I Dream of Jeanie[?]
• The Larry Sanders Show
• M*A*S*H
• Monk
• Munsters
• The Muppet Show
• The Partridge Family
• Police Squad[?]
• The Real McCoys
• Sabrina
• Scrubs
• Seinfeld
• Sex and the City
• The Simpsons
• Taxi
• Third Rock From the Sun[?]
• Townies[?]
• Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place[?]

See also:

• Comedy film
• Farce