public industry television production founded glasgow headquarters glasgow scotland parent zodiak entertainment website www.comedyunit.co.uk the comedy unit or known sometimes as just comedy unit is a scottish company that produces sitcoms comedy sketches live shows and other comedy productions . it began life as an in house bbc department in 1983 under the auspices of producer colin gilbert and became an independent production company in 1996 when gilbert and business manager april chamberlain left the bbc . 1 it was bought by london based rdf media group in 2006 2 which in turn was acquired by paris based zodiak entertainment group in 2010 . the creators of still game terminated their connections with the expanded group although the show itself continued as a co production . productions edit a kick up the eighties 1981 laugh i nearly paid my licence fee 1985 city lights 1984 1991 naked video 1986 1991 rab c. nesbitt 1988 1999 2008 2014 only an excuse 1993 the baldy man 1995 1997 atletico partick 1996 chewin the fat 1998 2002 caledonian macbrains 2001 still game 2002 present the karen dunbar show 2003 2004 offside 2004 2007 legit 2006 2008 having it all 2007 fags mags and bags 2007 2016 empty 2008 gary tank commander 2009 2012 limmy s show 2009 2013 frankie boyle s tramadol nights 2010 mordrin mcdonald 21st century wizard 2010 2012 burnistoun 2010 2015 badults 2013 present scot squad 2014 present references edit http www.heraldscotland.com sport spl aberdeen bbc comedy duo to go independent 1.653425 http www.heraldscotland.com sport spl aberdeen gbp10m offer for firm behind the cream of scots comedy broadcasters back london group s move 1.97237 external links edit the comedy unit v t e bbc scotland television bbc one scotland bbc two scotland bbc alba radio bbc radio scotland bbc radio nan g idheal bbc radio shetland bbc radio orkney bbc g idhlig list of bbc scotland programmes bbc pacific quay television in scotland bbc scottish symphony orchestra the comedy unit retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title the comedy unit & oldid 743220360 categories television production companies of the united kingdomrdf media group navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 8 october 2016 at 15 52 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view