A list of comedies by medium and country of origin.
Theatrical Comedies
- La Puce à l'0reille (trans. "A Flea in Her Ear") by Georges Feydeau
- The Government Inspector by Nikolai Gogol (made into the Danny Kaye screen musical The Inspector General.)
- 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.
- 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
Television Comedies
- 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)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Addams Family
- The Andy Griffith Show
- Bewitched
- The Brady Bunch
- Candid Camera
- Cheers
- Designing Women
- Frasier
- Friends
- Full House
- Gilligan's Island
- Happy Days
- The Honeymooners
- I Dream of Jeanie
- M*A*S*H
- Munsters
- The Muppet Show
- The Partridge Family
- Police Squad
- The Real McCoys
- Sabrina
- Scrubs
- Seinfeld
- Sex and the City
- The Simpsons
- Taxi
- That Was The Week That Was
- Third Rock From the Sun
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