British Comedy Guide
British Comedy Guide
The British Comedy Awards. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions
The British Comedy Awards

The British Comedy Awards

  • TV factual
  • ITV1 / Channel 4
  • 1990 - 2014
  • 25 episodes

Britain's premier comedy awards for almost 25 years, honouring the very best in the business. Features Jonathan Ross.

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The British Comedy Awards. Michael Parkinson. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

1990

The very first awards were presented by Michael Parkinson, broadcast live from the London Palladium.

1997

The People's Choice category was added in this year.

2000

In 2000, Sky TV got in on the act, broadcasting a show to accompany the ITV broadcast by featuring behind-the-scenes footage.

The British Comedy Awards. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2001

A preview show was added in this year, with Johnny Vegas interviewing some of the nominees.

The British Comedy Awards. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2006

In 2006, in advance of the ceremony, ITV presented a show called The Comedy Awards: 16 Dangerous Years

The British Comedy Awards. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2007

The Comedy Awards were in crisis in 2007 as it was revealed in the press that the phone votes during 2005 were not all counted. The ceremony went ahead as normal but ITV opted not to broadcast it.

The British Comedy Awards. Angus Deayton. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2008

The awards were back on TV (without the phone vote category any more). Angus Deayton acted as host as Jonathan Ross was still dealing with the fallout from the 'Sachsgate' furore.

The British Comedy Awards. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2010 (2011)

The awards moved to Channel 4, with the network bringing in the idea of announcing the nominations via a TV show too. Confusingly, in this year the awards were held at the IndigO2 in January so were in some places were incorrectly labelled as 'The British Comedy Awards 2011'.

The British Comedy Awards' trophy. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2011

The programme moved to the Fountain Studios, and back to a December broadcast date for 2011. Sarah Millican won the public phone vote.

The British Comedy Awards. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2012

The 2012 awards were once again broadcast live from Wembley's Fountain Studios, with dark period sitcom Hunderby picking up two awards and Jack Whitehall crowned the King of Comedy.

The British Comedy Awards. Jonathan Ross. Copyright: Unique Productions / CPL Productions

2014

2014's awards were the first not to be broadcast live. They were recorded a day before transmission.

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