Comic Roots
{{Short description|British television series}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{unreferenced|date=May 2019}}
{{Infobox television
| genre = Biography
| runtime = 8x30 minutes
| creator =
| starring = Keith Allen
Nicholas Ball
Roy Barraclough
Billy Dainty
Les Dawson
Nev Goodwyn
Irene Handl
Roy Hudd
Michael Palin
Sandy Powell
Alexei Sayle
Paul Shane
Graham Stuart-Harris
Kenneth Williams
| country = United Kingdom
| network = ITV
| first_aired = {{start date|1982|8|2|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{end date|1983|9|2|df=y}}
| num_episodes = 8
}}
Comic Roots was a British television series from the early 1980s, documenting the biographies and influences of a number of popular comedians of the era.
Episodes included features on Les Dawson, and Alexei Sayle. Sayle converted his own documentary into an impromptu pub crawl.
Episodes
=Series one (1982)=
- Les Dawson's Lancashire (2 August 1982)
- Roy Hudd's Croydon (9 August 1982)
- Irene Handl's London (16 August 1982)
- Paul Shane's Rotherham (16 August 1982)
=Series two (1983)=
- Michael Palin (12 August 1983)
- Billy Dainty (19 August 1983)
- Alexei Sayle (26 August 1983)
- Kenneth Williams (2 September 1983)