# List of radio comedies

This is a list of radio comedies.

## Produced independently

* Man of the People: The Only-Recently Discovered Secret Political Recordings of Acting Mayor Francis "Woody" Woodson
* The Sound of Young America
* The Comedy-O-Rama Hour
* The Wireless Theatre Company
* The Auntie Mabel Hour, broadcast on the 1960s pirate radio station Radio City, off the British coast.

## Australia
### Produced by ABC (Australia)

* The Idiot Weekly
* Yes, What?/The Fourth Form at St Percy's (discontinued)
* Coodabeen Champions

## Canada

* Double Exposure
* Frantic Times
* The Royal Canadian Air Farce
* Spring Thaw
* Great Conversations with Joseph the Irish Potato Farmer

### Produced by or for the CBC

* CBC Festival of Comedy
* CBC Festival of Funny
* Canadia: 2056
* Chas Lawther's Stand Up Documentaries
* The Chumps Without a Net
* The Dead Dog Cafe Comedy Hour
* Double Exposure (comedy series)
* The Frantics Frantic Times, Fran of the Fundy, and The Frantics Look at History
* Gary & Ivan's Winnebago Tour
* Great Eastern
* Growing Up and Having Babies
* The Happy Gang
* Here Come the Seventies (radio show)
* How to Seem Smart
* The Irrelevant Show
* Laugh in a Half
* Madly Off in All Directions
* Mr. Interesting's Guide to the Continental United States
* The Muckraker
* The Norm
* Radio Free Vestibule
* Rick and Pete Grow Up and Have Babies
* The Royal Canadian Air Farce
* Running with Scissors with Mr. Interesting
* Steve, The First
* Steve, The Second
* Sunny Days and Nights
* This Hour Has 17 Programs
* Those People Across the Street
* The Vinyl Cafe
* What a Week

## Ireland
### Produced by or for RTÉ

* The Apocalypse of Bill Lizard
* The Comedy Improv Radio Show
* Beyond the Back of Beyond
* Scrap Saturday

## New Zealand

* ZM - Hamish and Andy
* RNZ Comedy

## United Kingdom

* The 99p Challenge
* Absolute Power
* Babblewick Hall
* Beyond Our Ken
* The Cabaret of Dr Caligari
* The Clitheroe Kid
* Clare in the Community
* Count Arthur Strong's Radio Show
* Dead Ringers
* Elastic Planet
* The Glums
* The Goon Show
* Hancock's Half Hour
* Hello, Cheeky!
* The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue
* I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
* It Sticks Out Half a Mile
* It's That Man Again
* Just a Minute
* Knowing Me, Knowing You
* Ladies of Letters
* Lenin of the Rovers
* Little Britain
* Living with the Enemy
* The Mark Steel Revolution
* The Mark Steel Solution
* The Masterson Inheritance
* The Men from the Ministry
* The Mighty Boosh
* My Word!
* The Navy Lark
* Nebulous
* The News Huddlines
* The News Quiz
* The Now Show
* Old Harry's Game
* On the Hour
* On the Town with the League of Gentlemen
* Radio Active
* Revolting People
* Round the Horne
* Smelling of Roses
* The Sunday Format
* Truly, Madly, Bletchley

### Produced by or for the BBC

* 15 Minute Musical
* 15 Minutes of Misery
* 15 Storeys High
* 4 at the Store
* The 99p Challenge
* Absolute Power
* Alison and Maud
* And Now in Colour
* The Arthur Smith Lectures
* Beat The Kids
* Boothby Graffoe, In No Particular Order and Big Booth Too
* The Brothers
* The Burkiss Way
* Cabin Pressure
* Charm Offensive
* The Christopher Marlowe Mysteries
* Clare in the Community
* Clive Anderson's Comedy Revolutions
* Creme de la Crime
* Concrete Cow
* Comedians' Comedians
* Comedy Album Heroes
* Comedy Showcase
* The Consultants
* Dead Ringers
* Deep Trouble (radio comedy series)
* Delve Special
* Dial M For Pizza
* Educating Archie
* Ed Reardon's Week
* ElvenQuest
* Fags, Mags and Bags
* Fist of Fun
* Flight of the Conchords
* Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
* Four Joneses and a Jenkins
* The Game's Up
* Genius
* Giles Wemmbley Hogg Goes Off
* Geoffrey Boycott's Proper World History of Cricket
* Getting Nowhere Fast
* Goodness Gracious Me
* The Goon Show
* Hancock's Half Hour
* The Harpoon
* Hazelbeach
* The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
* The Hole in the Wall Gang
* The House of Milton Jones
* The Hudson and Pepperdine Show
* Hut 33
* I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
* I'm Sorry, I'll Read That Again
* In One Ear
* It's Been a Bad Week
* It's That Man Again
* Jackie Mason
* Jammin'
* Jeremy Hardy Speaks to the Nation
* Just a Minute
* "John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme"
* King Street Junior
* Knowing Me, Knowing You
* The League of Gentlemen
* Lionel Nimrod's Inexplicable World
* Lines From My Grandfather's Forehead
* Linda Smith's A Brief History of Timewasting
* Little Britain
* Loose Ends
* Mackay the New
* Man of Soup
* The Mark Steel Lectures
* The Mark Steel Revolution
* The Mark Steel Solution
* The Mel and Sue Thing
* Men from the Ministry
* Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music
* That Mitchell and Webb Sound
* Much Binding in the Marsh
* The Museum of Everything
* The National Theatre of Brent
* The Navy Lark
* Nebulous
* Newsjack
* The News Huddlines
* The News Quiz
* Nightcap
* The Now Show
* Old Harry's Game
* The Omar Khayyam Show
* On the Hour
* Party
* Paperback Hell
* People Like Us
* Police 5...to 12
* The Problem with Adam Bloom
* Quote... Unquote
* Radio Active
* Recorded for Training Purposes
* The Remains of Foley and McColl
* Robin and Wendy's Wet Weekends
* Room 101
* Ross Noble Goes Global
* Round the Horne
* Route One, USA
* Saturday Night Fry
* The SitCrom
* Son of Cliche
* Steptoe and Son
* The Sunday Format
* Take It From Here
* Think the Unthinkable
* The Unbelievable Truth
* The Very World of Milton Jones
* We've Been Here Before
* Whose Line Is It Anyway?
* World of Pub
* Yes Minister (adapted from television)
* You'll Have Had Your Tea (a spin-off from I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue)

### Produced by or for Resonance FM

* Entrance of the Gladiators

## USA

* The Abbott and Costello Show
* The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet
* The Adventures of Topper
* Amos & Andy
* The Alan Young Show
* The Aldrich Family
* Archie Andrews
* Audience of Two
* Avalon Time
* The Baby Snooks Show
* The Best Show with Tom Scharpling
* The Bob Burns Show
* The Bob Hope Show/The Pepsodent Show
* Bob & Ray
* Beulah
* The Bickersons
* The Billie Burke Show
* Block and Sully
* Blondie
* Blue Ribbon Town
* That Brewster Boy
* Burns and Allen
* The Candid Microphone
* The Charlie McCarthy Show
* The Chase and Sanborn Hour
* Chickenman
* The Credibility Gap
* The Cuckoo Hour
* The Dr Demento Radio Show
* Duffy's Tavern
* The Durante-Moore Show
* Easy Aces
* The Eddie Cantor Show
* Fibber McGee and Molly
* The Firesign Theatre
* Flywheel, Shyster, and Flywheel
* The Fire Chief/Ed Wynn Show
* The Fred Allen Show
* Forever Ernest
* Gasoline Alley
* The Goldbergs
* The Great Gildersleeve
* Granby's Green Acres
* The Grumps
* The Halls of Ivy
* Here's Morgan
* It Pays to Be Ignorant
* The Jack Benny Show
* The Jack Pearl Show/Baron Munchausen
* Jean Shepherd
* The Joe Penner Show
* Joe and Mabel
* The Judy Canova Show
* The Jumbo Fire Chief Program
* The Life of Riley
* Life with Luigi
* Lum and Abner
* Major Hoople
* Meet Me at Parky's
* The Mel Blanc Show
* The Milton Berle Show/Three Ring Time/Let Yourself Go
* The Morey Amsterdam Show
* My Favorite Husband
* My Friend Irma
* The National Lampoon Radio Hour
* Nutmeg Junction
* Our Miss Brooks
* People Are Funny
* The Phil Harris-Alice Faye Show
* The Raleigh Cigarette Program/The Red Skelton Show
* Sam 'n' Henry
* Seven Second Delay
* Smackout
* The SpeLcast
* The Stan Freberg Show
* Stoopnagle and Budd
* Stop Me If You've Heard This One
* Talkback with Jerry Galvin
* Texaco Star Theater
* Tommy Riggs and Betty Lou
* Vic and Sade
* You Bet Your Life

### Produced by or for US public radio

* A Prairie Home Companion (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Car Talk
* Comedy College (Minnesota Public Radio)
* Le Show (KCRW)
* NonProductive (WRSU-FM)
* Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! (Chicago Public Radio)
* The Comedy-O-Rama Hour (Joe Bevilacqua)

### Comedy Talk Radio

* The Adam Carolla Show
* Armstrong & Getty
* The Bob & Tom Show
* Don and Mike Show
* The Howard Stern Show
* Imus in the Morning
* Mancow's Morning Madhouse
* The Me and Him Show
* The Mark & Brian Show
* Opie and Anthony
* Ron and Fez

### Golden Age Variety Shows That Featured Comedians

* The Big Show
* The Danny Kaye Show
* The Dodge Victory Hour
* Ed Sullivan Entertains
* The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour/ The Rudy Vallee Show
* The George Jessel Show
* The Gulf Headliners
* The Jack Carson Show
* The Kate Smith Show
* Kraft Music Hall
* The Martin and Lewis Show
* Monitor
* The Ziegfeld Follies of the Air

### Other

* Loveline
* Hour of Slack