List of radio comedies explained

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^[1]
• The Auntie Mabel Hour, broadcast on the 1960s pirate radio station Radio City, off the British coast.

Produced by ABC (Australia)

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

• Double Exposure
• Frantic Times
• The Royal Canadian Air Farce
• Spring Thaw
• Great Conversations with Joseph the Irish Potato Farmer http://www.potatofarming.blogspot.com/

Produced by or for the CBC

• CBC Festival of Comedy
• CBC Festival of Funny
• 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

Produced by or for RTÉ

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

• ZM - Hamish and Andy
• RNZ Comedy

• 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
• The Party Line
• 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

• 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 ^[2]
• 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

See also

• Lists of comedy films
• List of comedy television series
• List of theatrical comedies

Notes and References

1. http://www.wirelesstheatrecompany.co.uk The Wireless Theatre Company
2. Web site: New 'old-style' radio show coming to Wesleyan University' WESU-FM. 25 May 2018.