The following is a listing of television series featuring documentaries about comedy performers and shows. (Many of these also profiled dramatic actors, musical artists and others not relevant to this website).
THE BEST OF BRITISH (BBC1)
November 4 1998 Barbara Windsor
November 11 1998 Victoria Wood
October 29 1999 Maureen Lipman
November 5 1999 Ben Elton
BIOGRAPHY (A & E)
August 8 1994 W.C. Fields – Behind the Laughter
? ? 1994 Jack Benny – Now Cut That Out!
December 23 1994 Stooges – The Men Behind the Mayhem
? ? 1995 To John, with Love – a Tribute to John Candy
? ? 1995 Mary Tyler Moore – All American Girl
December 25 1995 Charles Schulz – A Charlie Brown Life
March 12 1996 Richard Pryor – Comic on the Edge
May 6 1996 Bud Abbott & Lou Costello – Abbott & Costello Meet Biography
May 28 1996 Carol Burnett – Just to Have a Laugh
September 5 1996 Danny Thomas – Make Room for Danny
? ? 1997 Fatty Arbuckle – Betrayed by Hollywood
September 1 1997 Andy Griffith – Hollywood’s Homespun Hero
September 2 1997 Alan Alda – More Than Mr. Nice Guy
January 4 1998 Bob Hope – America’s Entertainer
June 23 1998 Ernie Kovacs – Please Stand By
September 27 1999 Tim Conway – Just Clowning Around
October 9 1999 Martha Raye – In Love and War
October 19 1999 Fred Gwynne – More Than a Munster
? ? 2000 Andy Kaufman
? ? 2000 Dick Van Dyke – Put on a Happy Face
April 12 2000 George Carlin – More than 7 Words
May 26 2000 Leslie Nielsen – Naked Laughter
June 19 2000 Henry Winkler – Hollywood’s Coolest Character
November 10 2000 Redd Foxx – Say it Like it is
November 30 2000 Al Lewis – Forever Grandpa
January 7 2001 Bob Newhart – The Last Sane Man
September 23 2001 Jackie Gleason – The Great One
October 22 2001 Ben Stiller
October 28 2001 A Munster Halloween
January 7 2002 Laugh Out Loud – TV’s 15 Greatest Comedians
June 3 2002 The Mary Tyler Moore Show – Making It After All
July 1 2002 The Wonder Years – Comedy Coming of Age
July 26 2002 Gracie Allen – The Better Half
August 6 2002 Martin Lawrence – Comic Trip
May 15 2003 Sir Alec Guinness – A Class Act
July 1 2003 Bernie Mac – TV’s Family Man
July 8 2003 The Munsters – America’s First Family of Fright
July 10 2003 M*A*S*H – Television’s Serious Sitcom
July 15 2003 Betty White – Hollywood’s Golden Girl
July 23 2003 Will Smith – Hollywood’s Fresh Prince
January 29 2004 Cheers
August 29 2004 Blake Edwards – Calling the Shots
September 29 2004 Don Adams – Would You Believe?
October 4 2004 Buster Keaton
October 10 2004 Will Rogers – An American Original
May 5 2005 Laverne & Shirley
May 13 2005 Ray Romano
June 24 2005 The Brady Bunch
February 3 2006 Steve Martin
July 7 2006 Robin Williams
July 31 2006 Dave Chappelle
November 15 2006 Bill Cosby
November 22 2006 Bea Arthur
? ? 2007 Denis Leary
? ? 2008 Sam Kinison
March 19 2008 Jamie Foxx
July 9 2008 Eddie Murphy
December 13 2008 Rowan Atkinson
March 23 2009 Weird Al Yankovic
June 25 2009 Chevy Chase
June ? 2009 The Tragic Side of Comedy
August 11 2009 Three’s Company
September 17 2009 David Letterman
? ? 2009 Diff’rent Strokes
? ? 2009 Rosanne
January ? 2010 John Candy
June 15 2010 Ed O’Neill
July ? 2010 Married with Children
July 21 2010 Rosie O’Donnell
September 1 2010 Danny DeVito
October 13 2010 Jim Carrey
November 2 2010 Ellen DeGeneres
also the following undated profiles …
Milton Berle: Mr. Television
George Burns
Ted Danson: One Lucky Guy
Whoopi Goldberg
Larry the Cable Guy
Oscar Levant: The Brilliant Shadow
Jerry Lewis
Gilda Radner: In Her Own Words
Saturday Night Live
Jerry Seinfeld: Master of His Domain
Phil Silvers: Top Banana
COMEDY CONNECTIONS (BBC1)
June 9 2003 Porridge
June 16 2003 The Good Life
June 23 2003 Are You Being Served
June 30 2003 Men Behaving Badly
July 7 2003 Butterflies
July 14 2003 Only Fools And Horses
June 21 2004 The Goodies
June 28 2004 Birds Of A Feather
July 12 2004 Father Ted
July 19 2004 The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
July 26 2004 Keeping Up Appearances
August 2 2004 The Young Ones
August 9 2004 Hi-De-Hi
August 30 2004 Red Dwarf
February 21 2005 Monty Python’s Flying Circus
February 28 2005 Spitting Image
March 7 2005 Three Of A Kind
March 14 2005 Harry Enfield And Chums
March 21 2005 Goodness Gracious Me
March 28 2005 Not The Nine O’Clock News
April 4 2005 A Bit Of Fry And Laurie
April 11 2005 The Two Ronnies
March 6 2006 Fast Show
March 13 2006 Dinner Ladies
March 20 2006 Drop The Dead Donkey
April 3 2006 Shooting Stars
April 10 2006 To The Manor Born
April 24 2006 ‘Allo ‘Allo!
May 1 2006 That Was The Week That Was
May 8 2006 Ever Decreasing Circles
January 12 2007 One Foot In The Grave
January 19 2007 Bread
January 26 2007 It Ain’t Half Hot Mum
February 2 2007 The New Statesman
February 9 2007 Don’t Wait Up
February 16 2007 The Office
February 23 2007 Just Good Friends
March 2 2007 Alas Smith And Jones
July 18 2008 Till Death Us Do Part
July 25 2008 Yes Minister
August 1 2008 The Liver Birds
August 8 2008 Ripping Yarns
August 15 2008 Rab C. Nesbitt
August 22 2008 Sorry
August 29 2008 Dad’s Army
September 4 2008 Little Britain
COMEDY CLASSICS (ITV1)
September 9 2008 On the Buses
September 23 2008 Rising Damp
October 7 2008 Doctor in the House
October 14 2008 Brass
November 18 2008 Duty Free
December 2 2008 The New Statesman
FIRST ON FOUR (CH4)
March 11 1998 Harry Enfield
March 18 1998 Julian Clary
March 25 1998 Ruby Wax
April 1 1998 Saturday Live (60 min)
April 8 1998 The Comic Strip (part 1)
April 15 1998 The Comic Strip (part 2)
FUNNY WOMEN (BBC2)
October 4 1997 Beryl Reid
October 11 1997 June Whitfield
October 18 1997 Maureen Lipman
November 1 1997 Alison Steadman
June 24 1998 Prunella Scales
July 1 1998 Patricia Routledge
August 17 1999 Mollie Sugden
HEROES OF COMEDY (CH4)
December 31 1992 2½ hour pilot edition
January 1 1995 Frankie Howerd
October 13 1995 Tommy Cooper
October 20 1995 Joyce Grenfell
October 27 1995 Max Miller
November 3 1995 Arthur Haynes
November 17 1995 Terry-Thomas
April 16 1997 Les Dawson
April 23 1997 Kenny Everett
April 30 1997 Alastair Sim
May 7 1997 The Goons
January 12 1998 Benny Hill
January 19 1998 Peter Cook
January 26 1998 Arthur Askey
February 2 1998 Tony Hancock
September 25 1999 Norman Wisdom
October 2 1999 Ken Dodd
October 9 1999 Eric Sykes
October 16 1999 Thora Hird
October 30 1999 Barry Humphries
October 7 2000 Kenneth Williams
November 11 2000 Bernard Manning
December 28 2000 Ronnie Barker
December 27 2001 Leonard Rossiter
February 16 1002 Mike Yarwood
February 23 2002 Sid James
March 2 2002 Spike Milligan
March 9 2002 Hattie Jacques
March 16 2002 Ronnie Corbett
April 13 2002 Dick Emery
January 2 2003(afternoon) Max Wall
(Sid Field and Stanley Holloway have also been attributed to programmes that aired in November 1995, but this is not believed to be correct)
HOLLYWOOD GREATS (BBC)
August 10 1979 Groucho Marx
August 17 1979 Charles Chaplin
April 11 2006 Jack Lemmon
LEGENDS (ITV)
July 12 2000 Dudley Moore
August 9 2000 Frankie Howerd
August 17 2000 Kenneth Williams
August 30 2000 Sir Norman Wisdom
July 31 2001 Hattie Jacques
August 14 2001 Sir Alec Guinness
August 20 2002 Peter Cook
August 27 2002 Leslie Phillips
September 10 2002 Terry-Thomas
September 17 2002 Peter Sellers
LIFE BEYOND THE BOX (BBC2)
December 26 2003 Norman Stanley Fletcher (from Porridge)
December 31 2003 Margo Leadbetter (from The Good Life)
A LIFE ON THE BOX (BBC1)
August 20 1998 Dick Emery
August 21 1998 Kenneth Williams
February 21 1999 Arthur Lowe
LIVING FAMOUSLY (BBC2)
January 15 2003 Laurel & Hardy
January 21 2003 Mae West
February 10 2003 Benny Hill
February 19 2003 Peter Sellers
THE MANY FACES OF … (BBC2)
December 29 2009 June Whitfield
December 19 2010 Richard Wilson
December 24 2010 Alison Steadman
December 24 2011 Les Dawson
December 24 2012 Ronnie Barker
January 5 2013 Stanley Baxter
April 6 2013 Sid James
April 20 2013 Michael Crawford
May 11 2013 Robbie Coltrane
January 27 2014 Dick Emery
January 1 2016 Ronnie Corbett
MY HERO (BBC1)
March 29 2013 Miranda Hart on Eric Morecambe
May 26 2013 Hugh Dennis on Ronnie Barker
August 27 2013 Ben Miller on Tony Hancock
THE SOUTH BANK SHOW (ITV)
March 11 1978 Ken Dodd
April 8 1978 Carry On films
December 10 1978 Woody Allen
May 13 1979 Billy Connolly
November 6 1983 Jack Lemmon
October 7 1984 Alan Bennett
November 25 1984 Max Wall
October 6 1985 Sir Alec Guinness
October 27 1985 Theatre of Comedy Workshop
January 12 1986 John Cleese
March 6 1988 Lenny Henry
March 5 1989 Ben Elton
November 19 1989 Dame Edna Everage
December 9 1990 Spitting Image
January 6 1991 Stan Laurel
February 24 1991 Steve Martin
September 15 1991 Private Eye
October 6 1991 Terry Gilliam
October 13 1991 Neil Simon
January 5 1992 Douglas Adams
January 12 1992 Lenny Henry Hunts the Funk
March 1 1992 Noel Coward
October 4 1992 Billy Connolly
November 8 1992 George Formby
June 13 1993 Dudley Moore
August 22 1993 Norman Wisdom
November 28 1993 John Lloyd’s A-Z of Comedy (part 1)
December 5 1993 John Lloyd’s A-Z of Comedy (part 2)
January 16 1994 Woody Allen
February 20 1994 Danny Kaye: Nobody’s Fool
April 17 1994 Dawn French
September 18 1994 Kenneth Williams
November 13 1994 Thora Hird
February 12 1995 Jonathan Miller
September 15 1996 Victoria Wood
September 29 1996 Michael Crawford
September 26 1999 Paul Merton
October 1 2000 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ben Elton
August 5 2001 Steve Coogan
March 24 2002 Meera Syal
November 24 2002 Joan Rivers
January 1 2005 Pete ‘n’ Dud: the Lost Shows
September 18 2005 Eric Sykes
October 9 2005 Alan Bennett
December 25 2005 Little Britain
September 24 2006 Robbie Coltrane
October 15 2006 Spamalot
March 11 2007 Victoria Wood
July 29 2007 June Whitfield
October 14 2007 The Last Laugh: John Bird and John Fortune
October 5 2008 The One Ronnie (Corbett)
February 1 2009 Beyond the Footlights
April 4 2010 Billy Connolly Revisited
THE UNFORGETTABLE … (ITV)
January 21 2000 Hattie Jacques
March 15 2000 Richard Beckinsale
March 19 2000 Larry Grayson
March 31 2000 Kenny Everett
September 18 2000 Arthur Lowe
September 25 2000 Leonard Rossiter
December 4 2000 Sid James
December 11 2000 Les Dawson
December 18 2000 Frankie Howerd
December 31 2000 Beryl Reid
September 2 2001 Tommy Cooper
September 9 2001 John Le Mesurier
September 23 2001 Kenneth Williams
October 3 2001 Yootha Joyce
November 2 2001 Eric Morecambe
December 14 2001 Benny Hill
May 21 2002 Joan Sims
August 8 2010 Bob Monkhouse
August 15 2010 Jeremy Beadle
September 8 2010 Mollie Sugden
September 22 2010 Terry Scott
December 20 2010 Harry Secombe
December 21 2010 Danny La Rue
December 22 2010 Mike Reid
December 23 2010 Spike Milligan
November 8 2011 Norman Wisdom
December 26 2011 Ernie Wise
January 11 2012 Leslie Crowther
February 1 2012 Rod Hull
April 11 2012 Dick Emery
May 23 2012 Dudley Moore
There were also series of compilations from chat show interviews.
THE INTERVIEWS (Gold)
24th June 2015 Kenneth Williams
1st July 2015 The Two Ronnies
8th July 2015 Les Dawson
22nd July 2015 Peter Cook and Dudley Moore
29th July 2015 Spike Milligan
March 16 2016 Peter Sellers
March 23 2016 Barry Humphries
March 30 2016 Frankie Howerd
April 6 2016 Julie Walters
April 13 2016 Bruce Forsyth
April 20 2016 Kenny Everett
TALKING COMEDY (BBC2)
April 3 2015 Bob Hope
April 3 2015 Peter Sellers
April 6 2015 Les Dawson
April 6 2015 The Two Ronnies
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