Only When I Laugh was a British television sitcom made by Yorkshire Television for ITV between 1979 and 1982. It was set in the ward of an NHS hospital.

It starred James Bolam, Peter Bowles and Christopher Strauli as patients Roy Figgis, Archie Glover and Norman Binns. Mr Gordon Thorpe, their consultant surgeon was played by Richard Wilson and Gupte, the ward orderly from Delhi was played by Derrick Branche.