The Chortle awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK.

As of 2002, the Chortle Awards are the only UK-based awards that solely honour the live work of stand-up comedians at a professional level. The judging is done through a panel of judges and the votes of regular visitors at the chortle website.

2008

Best Newcomer

• Holly Walsh
  Holly Walsh (comedian)
  Holly Walsh is an English comedian and comedy writer from Guildford in Surrey, known mainly for her work on TV and radio in the UK.- Early life :...
  
   (Winner)
  • Nat Luurtsema (nominee)
  • Greg McHugh
    Greg McHugh
    Greg McHugh is a Scottish actor and writer. He is the creator, writer and star of the BBC1 comedy series Gary: Tank Commander. He won a BAFTA for the show.He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow....
    
     (nominee)
  • Jack Whitehall
    Jack Whitehall
    Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor, best known for hosting the E4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2008, Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth in January 2009, and the Channel 4 topical entertainment show the TNT Show.-Early life:Whitehall was born in...
    
     (nominee)

Breakthrough act

• Jon Richardson
  Jon Richardson (entertainer)
  Jon Joel Richardson is a British comedian.Jon co-hosted a Sunday morning radio show on BBC 6 Music with fellow comedian and friend Russell Howard, and continued to present the show himself after Howard left, until 7 March 2010...
  
   (Winner)
  • Tom Basden
    Tom Basden
    Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key.-Education:Basden was educated...
    
     (nominee)
  • Lloyd Langford
    Lloyd Langford
    Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
    
     (nominee)
  • Terry Saunders (nominee)

Best compère

• Stephen Grant
  Stephen Grant (comedian)
  Stephen Grant is a British comedian and radio presenter best known for hosting the Krater Comedy Club at Komedia in Brighton, England, which won the Chortle Award for Best Comedy Club in the South from 2001 to 2009. Chortle.com says it granted Grant Best Compère in the 2008 Chortle Awards.-External...
  
   (Winner)
  • Stephen K Amos (nominee)
  • Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas is a comedian from New Zealand who makes his living in the United Kingdom. He does much work with the BBC, and won the Chortle Comedy Award for Best Compere. He is also known for being in Pot Noodle adverts....
    
     (nominee)
  • Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
    
     (nominee)

Best headliner

• Michael McIntyre
  Michael McIntyre
  Michael Hazen James McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian. He is well known for appearing at many British stand-up comedy events and for several roles on television stand-up programmes such as Live at the Apollo and his own show, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow...
  
   (Winner)
  • Rhod Gilbert
    Rhod Gilbert
    Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
    
     (nominee)
  • Jim Jeffries
    Jim Jeffries (comedian)
    Geoffery James Nugent, aka Jim Jeffries is an Australian stand-up comedian .-Early life:...
    
     (nominee)
  • Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool
    Glenn Wool is a Canadian stand-up comedian now living in the United Kingdom. His material veers between sagely political and gleefully silly, discussing both the pop group Franz Ferdinand and the Pope's contribution to cryrogenics programmes during his time onstage. Wool starred in a self-titled...
    
     (nominee)

Sketch, variety or character act

• Pappy's Fun Club
  Pappy's Fun Club
  Pappy's is an English sketch-comedy team consisting of comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. After 5 years as the four-man team "Pappy's Fun Club", the group decided to change the name to "Pappy's" and continue without fourth member, Brendan Dodds...
  
   (Winner)
  • Fat Tongue (nominee)
  • Lee Fenwick as Mick Sergeant (nominee)
  • Ugly Kid (nominee)

Best full show

• Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
  
  : 41st Best Stand-Up (Winner)
  • Tom Basden
    Tom Basden
    Tom Basden is a British actor and comedy writer, and a member of the British four man sketch group Cowards. He has written and performed extensively for comedy shows on the BBC and Channel 4 and often collaborates in two-man shows with fellow Cowards member Tim Key.-Education:Basden was educated...
    
     Won't Say Anything (nominee)
  • Psister Psycho (nominee)
  • Terry Saunders: Missed Connection

Award for innovation

• Laughter In Odd Places (Winner)
  • Arthur Smith
    Arthur Smith (comedian)
    Brian Arthur John Smith is an English alternative comedian and writer. He was born in Bermondsey, South London, brother to Richard Smith...
    
     for ArthurArt (nominee)
  • Gently Progressive Behemoth (Edinburgh show) (nominee)
  • We Need Answers (Edinburgh show) (nominee)

Best theatre tour

• Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
  
   (Winner)
  • Alan Carr
    Alan Carr
    Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
    
    : Tooth Fairy (nominee)
  • Al Murray
    Al Murray
    Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray , is a British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, The Pub Landlord, a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy...
    
     at the London Palladium (nominee)
  • Frank Skinner
    Frank Skinner
    Frank Skinner is a British writer, comedian and actor. He is best known for his television presenting, often alongside David Baddiel, with whom he also collaborated for the football song "Three Lions."He is a radio presenter on the Saturday morning slot on Absolute Radio.-Youth and early career...
    
     (nominee)

Offstage contribution

• Toby Hadoke
  Toby Hadoke
  Toby Hadoke is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian. He is particularly well known for his work on the Manchester comedy circuit, where he performs regularly. He runs the multi award winning XS Malarkey comedy club, and is involved with many of the more experimental and financially...
  
   of XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
  , Manchester

Award for artistic integrity

• Hans Teeuwen
  Hans Teeuwen
  Hans Eduard Marie Teeuwen is a Dutch comedian, actor and an occasional singer and director. His work can be described as absurdist, apolitical and confrontational.- Theatre :...
  
  

Outstanding contribution to comedy

• The I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue
  I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, sometimes abbreviated to ISIHAC or Clue, is a BBC radio comedy panel game broadcast since 11 April 1972 at the rate of one or two series each year , transmitted on BBC Radio 4, with occasional repeats on BBC Radio 4 Extra and the BBC's World Service...
  
   team

Venue Awards

• London (large): Comedy Store
• London (small) : Falling Down With Laughter
• South: Komedia
• Midlands/East: Derby Funhouse
• Wales and the West: The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
  , Cardiff
• North: XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
  , Manchester
• Scotland: Edinburgh Stand

2007

Best Newcomer

• Carl Donnelly
  Carl Donnelly
  Carl Donnelly is an English stand-up comedian and writer.-Stand up career:Donnelly began his comedy career in 2004. He has since been a regular on the London comedy circuit...
  
   (Winner)
  • Arnab Chanda
    Arnab Chanda
    -Career:He was born in England and lived there for 6 years and then spent 1 year in India, 8 years in Saudi Arabia and 8 years in the U.S. After graduating from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he started doing stand-up comedy in New York City, and after moving back to London in...
    
     (nominee)
  • Ginger and Black (nominee)
  • Pappy's Fun Club
    Pappy's Fun Club
    Pappy's is an English sketch-comedy team consisting of comedians Ben Clark, Matthew Crosby and Tom Parry. After 5 years as the four-man team "Pappy's Fun Club", the group decided to change the name to "Pappy's" and continue without fourth member, Brendan Dodds...
    
     (nominee)

Best Breakthrough

• Josie Long
  Josie Long
  Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
  
   (Winner)
  • Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
    
     (nominee)
  • Paul Sinha (nominee)
  • Shappi Khorsandi (nominee)

Best Compère

• Robin Ince
  Robin Ince
  Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas
    Jarred Christmas is a comedian from New Zealand who makes his living in the United Kingdom. He does much work with the BBC, and won the Chortle Comedy Award for Best Compere. He is also known for being in Pot Noodle adverts....
    
     (nominee)
  • Mark Watson
    Mark Watson (comedian)
    Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...
    
     (nominee)
  • Stephen K Amos (nominee)

Best Headliner

• Jason Byrne
  Jason Byrne (comedian)
  Jason Byrne is an Irish comedian born in Ballinteer, Dublin, Ireland. In August 2008, he made his twelfth Edinburgh Fringe Festival appearance and is a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival....
  
   (Winner)
  • Michael McIntyre
    Michael McIntyre
    Michael Hazen James McIntyre is an English stand-up comedian. He is well known for appearing at many British stand-up comedy events and for several roles on television stand-up programmes such as Live at the Apollo and his own show, Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow...
    
     (nominee)
  • Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...
    
     (nominee)
  • Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald Darnell Hunter is an American stand-up comedian who works mainly in the United Kingdom.-Early life:Hunter was born in Albany, Georgia. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother beat him regularly; she died in 2004....
    
     (nominee)

Best Sketch, Variety or Character Act

• We Are Klang
  We Are Klang
  We Are Klang is a three-piece sit-com group consisting of comedians Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood. Klang are noted for their anarchic and frequently rude comedy....
  
   (Winner)
  • Count Arthur Strong (nominee)
  • Jeremy Lion
    Jeremy Lion
    Jeremy Lion is a character created by British actor and comedian Justin Edwards.Lion is an alcoholic children's entertainer with a terrifying array of props, and a great fondness for Tia Maria and Matchmakers...
    
     (nominee)
  • Joanna Neary (nominee)

Best Full Length Feature Show

• The Mighty Boosh
  The Mighty Boosh
  The Mighty Boosh is a British comedy troupe featuring comedians Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding. Developed from three stage shows and a six episode radio series, it has since spawned a total of twenty television episodes for BBC Three and two live tours of the UK, as well as two live shows in the...
  
   Tour (Winner)
  • Doug Stanhope
    Doug Stanhope
    Douglas Gene "Doug" Stanhope is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and author known for his abrasive comedy routines.-Life and career:Stanhope quit high school after his freshman year...
    
    
  • Mark Thomas
    Mark Thomas
    Mark Clifford Thomas is a left-wing English comedian, presenter, political activist and reporter from south London. He first became known as a guest comic on the BBC Radio 1 comedy show The Mary Whitehouse Experience in the late 1980s. He is best known for political stunts on his show, The Mark...
    
    : As Used On The Famous Nelson Mandela (nominee)
  • We Are Klang
    We Are Klang
    We Are Klang is a three-piece sit-com group consisting of comedians Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood. Klang are noted for their anarchic and frequently rude comedy....
    
    : Klang Bang (nominee)

Award for innovation

• Free Fringe
  Free Fringe
  The Free Fringe is an organisation that promotes free shows at the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Free Fringe venues are commonly independently run bars and nightclubs which create performance spaces in their premises for the duration of the Fringe Festival...
  
   (Winner)
  • James Campbell’s Comedy 4 Kids (nominee)
  • Maxwell’s Full Mooners (nominee)
  • Tim Fitzhigham (nominee)

Best Off-stage contribution

• Free Fringe
  Free Fringe
  The Free Fringe is an organisation that promotes free shows at the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Free Fringe venues are commonly independently run bars and nightclubs which create performance spaces in their premises for the duration of the Fringe Festival...
  
   (Winner)
  • BAC (Battersea Arts Centre (nominee)
  • Brett Vincent, Alex Rochford and Paul Byrne for Maxwell’s Full Mooners (nominee)
  • Toby Hadoke
    Toby Hadoke
    Toby Hadoke is an English actor, writer and stand-up comedian. He is particularly well known for his work on the Manchester comedy circuit, where he performs regularly. He runs the multi award winning XS Malarkey comedy club, and is involved with many of the more experimental and financially...
    
     (XS Malarkey
    XS Malarkey
    XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
    
    , Manchester) (nominee)

Outstanding contribution to comedy

• Linda Smith
  Linda Smith (comedian)
  Linda Helen Smith was a British stand-up comic and comedy writer. She appeared regularly on Radio 4 panel games, and was voted "Wittiest Living Person" by listeners in 2002...
  
  

2006

Best newcomer

• James Branch (Winner)
  • Lee Bannard (Nominee)
  • Sarah Millican
    Sarah Millican
    Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...
    
     (Nominee)

Best breakthrough act

• Jason Manford
  Jason Manford
  Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.- Early life :Manford was born to an Irish family in Salford, Greater Manchester, a son of Sharon , who is a Catholic and Ian Manford. He grew up in poverty in a terraced house in Manchester...
  
   (Winner)
  • Hal Cruttenden (Nominee)
  • Josie Long
    Josie Long
    Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
    
     (Nominee)

Best compère

• Russell Howard
  Russell Howard
  Russell Joseph Howard is an English comedian best known for his TV show Russell Howard's Good News and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock The Week...
  
   (Winner)
  • Alfie Joey
    Alfie Joey
    Alfie Joey is a British comedian and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the BBC Newcastle breakfast show.He has featured in numerous radio and television shows, such as Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music and Ideal...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell is an Irish stand-up comedian. Raised in Kilbarrack, Dublin, and now resident in London, he is a father of two. He regularly appears on The Panel.-Early life:...
    
     (Nominee)

Best headliner

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)
  • Alan Carr
    Alan Carr
    Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
    
     (Nominee)
  • Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
    
     (Nominee)

Best sketch, variety or character act
Justin Edwards

Justin Edwards

Justin Edwards is an English actor and writer.Born in Hampshire, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings...

 as Jeremy Lion

Jeremy Lion

Jeremy Lion is a character created by British actor and comedian Justin Edwards.Lion is an alcoholic children's entertainer with a terrifying array of props, and a great fondness for Tia Maria and Matchmakers...

(Winner)

• Tim Minchin
  Tim Minchin
  Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...
  
   (Nominees)
  • We Are Klang
    We Are Klang
    We Are Klang is a three-piece sit-com group consisting of comedians Greg Davies, Steve Hall and Marek Larwood. Klang are noted for their anarchic and frequently rude comedy....
    
     (Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
    
    , Steve Hall
    Steve Hall (Comedian)
    Steve Hall is a stand-up comedian.Hall was a finalist of the 2002 Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award and a runner-up of the 2003 BBC New Comedy Awards....
    
    , Marek Larwood
    Marek Larwood
    Marek Larwood is an English comedian and actor in television, radio and theatre. He is best known for the BBC Three sitcom/sketch show, Rush Hour and for being one third of the comedy trio We Are Klang....
    
    ) (Nominee)

Best full-length solo show:

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   Daniel Kitson’s Edinburgh stand-up show (Winner)
  • Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee
    Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
    
     Stewart Lee: 90s Comedian (Nominee)
  • Tim Minchin
    Tim Minchin
    Timothy David "Tim" Minchin is a British-Australian comedian, actor, and musician.Tim Minchin is best known for his musical comedy, which has featured in six CDs, three DVDs and a number of live comedy shows which he has performed internationally. He has also appeared on television in Australia,...
    
     Tim Minchin: Dark Side (Nominee)

Award For Innovation

• Robin Ince
  Robin Ince
  Robin Ince is an English stand-up comedian, actor and writer. He is best known for presenting the BBC radio show The Infinite Monkey Cage .-Stand-up comedy:...
  
  's Book Club (Winner)

Best Off-Stage Contribution

• Malcolm Hay, comedy editor of Time Out (Winner)

Outstanding Contribution to Comedy:

• Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee
  Stewart Lee is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director known for being one half of the 1990s comedy duo Lee and Herring, and for co-writing and directing the critically acclaimed and controversial stage show Jerry Springer - The Opera...
  
   (Winner)

People's Choice

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Comics' Comic

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Venue Awards

• Scotland: The Pleasance (Winner)
• The North of England: Funny Magnet, Middlesbrough
  Middlesbrough
  Middlesbrough is a large town situated on the south bank of the River Tees in north east England, that sits within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...
  
   (Winner)
• Midlands and East: The Funhouse
  The Funhouse
  The Funhouse is a 1981 horror film in which four teenagers are trapped in a dark ride and stalked by a deformed killer. The film was directed by Tobe Hooper, and the screenplay written by Larry Block...
  
  , Derby
  Derby
  Derby , is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands region of England. It lies upon the banks of the River Derwent and is located in the south of the ceremonial county of Derbyshire. In the 2001 census, the population of the city was 233,700, whilst that of the Derby Urban Area was 229,407...
  
   (Winner)
• Wales and the West: The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
  , Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   (Winner)
• South of England: Komedia, Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
   (Winner)
• London small: Outside The Box
  Outside The Box Comedy Club
  Outside the Box is a comedy club located in the backroom of The Fighting Cocks pub in Kingston-upon-Thames. It was opened in November 2006 by comedian Maff Brown....
  
  , Kingston
  Kingston upon Thames
  Kingston upon Thames is the principal settlement of the Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames in southwest London. It was the ancient market town where Saxon kings were crowned and is now a suburb situated south west of Charing Cross. It is one of the major metropolitan centres identified in the...
  
   (Winner)
• London large: The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has a sister comedy club in La Jolla, San Diego, California.-History:...
  
   (Winner)

2005

Best newcomer

• Josie Long
  Josie Long
  Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
  
   (Winner)
  • Russell Kane
    Russell Kane
    Russell Kane is an English writer, comedian, actor and media personality. In June 2006, he became the face of digital station Five US. He has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning the main prize in August 2010...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Isy Suttie
    Isy Suttie
    Isobel "Isy" Suttie is an English stand up comedian, actress, writer, and musician. She is best known for playing the role of Dobby in the British sitcom Peep Show.-Career:...
    
     (Nominee)

Best compère

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)
  • Alun Cochrane
    Alun Cochrane
    Alun "The Cockerel" Cochrane is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He was born in Glasgow and raised in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.-Stand-up comedy:...
    
      (Nominee)
  • Adam Hills
    Adam Hills
    Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...
    
     (Nominee)

Breakthrough act

• Rhod Gilbert
  Rhod Gilbert
  Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
  
   (Winner)
  • Alun Cochrane
    Alun Cochrane
    Alun "The Cockerel" Cochrane is a Scottish stand-up comedian. He was born in Glasgow and raised in Mirfield, West Yorkshire.-Stand-up comedy:...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Mark Watson
    Mark Watson (comedian)
    Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...
    
     (Nominee)

Best headliner

• Will Smith
  Will Smith (comedian)
  Will Smith is a British comedian, actor and writer. He was born and grew up in Jersey and is known for his love and encyclopaedic knowledge of Bergerac, as well as his posh boy persona. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Charterhouse School. He now lives in London...
  
   (Winner)
  • Chris Addison
    Chris Addison
    Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell
    Andrew Maxwell is an Irish stand-up comedian. Raised in Kilbarrack, Dublin, and now resident in London, he is a father of two. He regularly appears on The Panel.-Early life:...
    
     (Nominee)

People's Choice

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Comics' Comic

• Andrew Maxwell
  Andrew Maxwell
  Andrew Maxwell is an Irish stand-up comedian. Raised in Kilbarrack, Dublin, and now resident in London, he is a father of two. He regularly appears on The Panel.-Early life:...
  
    (Winner)

Best sketch, variety or character act

• Flight Of The Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords
  Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
  
   (Winner)
  • Jeremy Lion
    Jeremy Lion
    Jeremy Lion is a character created by British actor and comedian Justin Edwards.Lion is an alcoholic children's entertainer with a terrifying array of props, and a great fondness for Tia Maria and Matchmakers...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band", from the United States. Originally from Seattle, Washington, they are now based in New York, New York.-Overview:...
    
     (Nominee)

Award for innovation

• Mark Watson
  Mark Watson (comedian)
  Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...
  
   for his Overambitious 24-Hour Show (Winner)
  • Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players
    The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players describe themselves as an "indie-vaudeville conceptual art-rock pop band", from the United States. Originally from Seattle, Washington, they are now based in New York, New York.-Overview:...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Wil Hodgson
    Wil Hodgson
    Wil Hodgson is an English comedian. He has lived in Chippenham his whole life and began performing comedy in 2003. Prior to this he had worked part time as a lecturer at Wiltshire College and had a stint training to be a wrestler during which he participated in 30 man "Battle Royals".Hodgson is...
    
     (Nominee)

Best full-length solo show

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
  ’s Edinburgh show (Winner)
  • Will Smith
    Will Smith (comedian)
    Will Smith is a British comedian, actor and writer. He was born and grew up in Jersey and is known for his love and encyclopaedic knowledge of Bergerac, as well as his posh boy persona. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Charterhouse School. He now lives in London...
    
    : 10 Arguments I Should Have Won (Nominee)
  • Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in...
    
    : Part Troll (Nominee)

Best off-stage contribution

• Ed Bartlam and Charlie Wood, of The Underbelly, Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
  
   (Winner)

Lifetime achievement award

• Malcolm Hardee
  Malcolm Hardee
  Malcolm Hardee was an English comedian, author, comedy club proprietor, compère, agent, manager and "amateur sensationalist"....
  
   (Winner)

Venue Awards:

• North of England: XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
  , Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
   (Winner)
• South of England: The Komedia, Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
   (Winner)
• Midlands: Just The Tonic, Nottingham
  Nottingham
  Nottingham is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England. It is located in the ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire and represents one of eight members of the English Core Cities Group...
  
   (Winner)
• Scotland: The Stand
  The Stand
  The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It demonstrates the scenario in his earlier short story, Night Surf...
  
  , Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
  
   (Winner)
• West and Wales: The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
  , Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   (Winner)
• London, large venue: The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has a sister comedy club in La Jolla, San Diego, California.-History:...
  
   (Winner)
• London, small venue: Comedy Camp (Winner)

2004

Best newcomer:

• Waen Shepherd
  Waen Shepherd
  Waen Shepherd is an English actor and comedian. Originally from Yorkshire, England, he later moved to London.-Career:Following his days as a stand-up poet and fringe actor , Waen started out performing bizarre experimental monologues at the early Cluub Zarathustra, touring with spoof techno band...
  
   as Gary Le Strange
  Gary Le Strange
  Gary Le Strange is a character created by comedian Waen Shepherd. Le Strange is played as an eccentric English cult-rock composer, songwriter and performer, who believes his surreal and abstract performances to be groundbreaking....
  
   (winner)
  • Stuart Hudson (Nominee)
  • Tom Wrigglesworth
    Tom Wrigglesworth
    Tom Wrigglesworth is an English stand-up comedian from Sheffield, Yorkshire. He has won the comedy newcomer award So You Think You're Funny? at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2006 he performed with fellow comedian Tom Allen as a part of the show Allen and Wrigglesworth. In 2009 he was...
    
     (Nominee)

Best compère

• Adam Hills
  Adam Hills
  Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...
  
    (Winner)
  • Stephen K Amos (Nominee)
  • Jo Caulfield
    Jo Caulfield
    Josephine Caulfield is a British actress, writer and comedian.-Biography:Born in Wales to Irish parents, she was brought up in Derbyshire and Leicestershire England....
    
     (Nominee)

Breakthrough act:

• Alex Horne
  Alex Horne
  Alex Horne is a British comedian.He was educated at Lancing College and the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of Footlights.-Career:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Lucy Porter
    Lucy Porter
    Lucy Donna Porter is an English actress, writer and comedienne.She has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, the Brighton Festival and many clubs around Britain. She has also a regular voice on BBC Radio 4 in various panel shows, including Quote.....
    
     (Nominee)
  • Will Smith
    Will Smith (comedian)
    Will Smith is a British comedian, actor and writer. He was born and grew up in Jersey and is known for his love and encyclopaedic knowledge of Bergerac, as well as his posh boy persona. He was educated at Victoria College, Jersey and Charterhouse School. He now lives in London...
    
     (Nominee)

Best headliner:

• Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
  
   (Winner)
  • Adam Hills
    Adam Hills
    Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald Darnell Hunter is an American stand-up comedian who works mainly in the United Kingdom.-Early life:Hunter was born in Albany, Georgia. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother beat him regularly; she died in 2004....
    
     (Nominee)

Best sketch, variety or character act:

• Justin Edwards
  Justin Edwards
  Justin Edwards is an English actor and writer.Born in Hampshire, Justin studied at Manchester University, before training at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. He was a member of sketch trio The Consultants, alongside Neil Edmond and James Rawlings...
  
   as Jeremy Lion
  Jeremy Lion
  Jeremy Lion is a character created by British actor and comedian Justin Edwards.Lion is an alcoholic children's entertainer with a terrifying array of props, and a great fondness for Tia Maria and Matchmakers...
  
   (Winner)
  • Flight Of The Conchords
    Flight of the Conchords
    Flight of the Conchords are a New Zealand-based comedy duo composed of Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. The duo's comedy and music became the basis of a BBC radio series and then an American television series, which premiered in 2007 on HBO, also called Flight of the Conchords.They were named...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Oram and Meeten (Nominee)

Award for innovation:

• Dave Gorman
  Dave Gorman
  David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
  
   (Winner)
  • Alfie Joey
    Alfie Joey
    Alfie Joey is a British comedian and radio presenter. He currently co-presents the BBC Newcastle breakfast show.He has featured in numerous radio and television shows, such as Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music and Ideal...
    
     for his Mini Cabaret (Nominee)
  • Howard Read
    Howard Read
    Howard Oliver Drinkwater Read is a British comedian, animator and aspiring song writer best known for his work with his animated sidekick, Little Howard. His other creations include an angry manager with a conversational style and the worldview of Bernard Manning, Roger T Pigeon, and H:BOT 2000, a...
    
     (Nominee)

Best full-length solo show:

• Dave Gorman
  Dave Gorman
  David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
  
   Dave Gorman's Googlewhack Adventure (Winner)
  • Demetri Martin
    Demetri Martin
    Demetri Martin is an American comedian, actor, artist, musician, writer and humorist. Martin is best known for his work as a stand-up comedian, contributor on The Daily Show and for his Comedy Central show Important Things with Demetri Martin.- Early life :Demetri Martin was born to a Greek...
    
    : If I... (Nominee)
  • Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
    
    : I Am Not An Animal (Nominee)

Best contribution by a non-performer:

• Hannah Chambers of Comedy Cafe Management (Winner)
  • Agraman The Buzz
    The Buzz
    The Buzz may refer to:*The Buzz , a fictional character in the Marvel Comics' series Spider-Girl*The Buzz , a television show on the UK channel Eat Cinema...
    
     Manchester
    Manchester
    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Simon Randall Ha Bloody Ha/Headliners London
    London
    London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
    
     (Nominee)

People's choice

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Comedians' comedian

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Student Comic Of The Year:

• Lloyd Langford
  Lloyd Langford
  Lloyd Langford is a Welsh comedian and comedy writer. He is originally from Baglan, Neath Port Talbot and currently lives in London...
  
   (Winner)

Best venues:

• London (large): Comedy Store (Winner)
• London (small): Amused Moose (Winner)
• North of England: XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
   Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
  (Winner)
• South of England: Komedia Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
   (Winner)
• East/Midlands: The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
   Birmingham
  Birmingham
  Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
  
   (Winner)
• West of England/Wales: Comedy Cavern Bath (Nominee)
• Scotland: The Stand
  The Stand
  The Stand is a post-apocalyptic horror/fantasy novel by American author Stephen King. It demonstrates the scenario in his earlier short story, Night Surf...
  
   Edinburgh
  Edinburgh
  Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
  
   (Nominee)

2003

Best newcomer

• Matthew Osborn (Winner)
  • Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
    
     (Nominee)
  • Rhod Gilbert
    Rhod Gilbert
    Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
    
     (Nominee)

Best compère

• Chris Addison
  Chris Addison
  Chris Addison is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. He is known for his lecture-style comedy shows, two of which he later adapted for BBC Radio 4...
  
   (Winner)
  • Adam Hills
    Adam Hills
    Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain
    Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
    
     (Nominee)

Breakthrough act

• Rev Obadiah Steppenwolfe III (Winner)
  • Hal Cruttenden (Nominee)
  • Micky Flanagan
    Micky Flanagan
    Michael "Micky" Flanagan is an English comedian. Flanagan has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain with stand-up shows...
    
     (Nominee)

Best headliner

• Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain
  Dara Ó Briain is an Irish stand-up comedian and television presenter, noted for hosting topical panel shows such as The Panel and Mock the Week....
  
   (Winner)
  • Jimmy Carr
    Jimmy Carr
    James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English-Irish comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television....
    
     (Nominee)
  • Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...
    
     (Nominee)

Best sketch, variety or character act

• Garth Marenghi
  Garth Marenghi
  Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author and actor, created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and played by Holness. To date, the character has appeared in two stage shows, the Perrier Award-nominated Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight and Perrier Award-winning Garth...
  
  
  • Otis Lee Crenshaw (Nominees)
  • Rev Obadiah Steppenwolfe III (Nominees)

Best full-length solo show

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
  : Something
  Something
  "Something" is a song by The Beatles, written by lead guitarist George Harrison in 1969. It was featured on the album Abbey Road, and was also the first song written by Harrison to appear on the A-side of a Beatles' single...
  
   (Winner)
  • Jimmy Carr
    Jimmy Carr
    James Anthony Patrick "Jimmy" Carr is an English-Irish comedian and humourist. He is known for his deadpan delivery and dark humour. He is also a writer, actor and presenter of radio and television....
    
    : Bare-Faced Ambition
  • Dave Gorman
    Dave Gorman
    David James Gorman is an English author, stand-up comedian and presenter. He has performed comedy shows on stage in which he tells stories of extreme adventures and presents the evidence to the audience in order to prove to them that they are true stories...
    
    : Dave Gorman's Better World

Best contribution by a non-performer
Karen Koren of Edinburgh's Gilded Balloon (Winner)
People's choice:

• Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
   (Winner)

Comedians' comedian

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)

Outstanding contribution to comedy

• Billy Connolly
  Billy Connolly
  William "Billy" Connolly, Jr., CBE is a Scottish comedian, musician, presenter and actor. He is sometimes known, especially in his native Scotland, by the nickname The Big Yin...
  
  

Best venues:

• London (large): The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store
  The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has a sister comedy club in La Jolla, San Diego, California.-History:...
  
  (Winner)
• London (small): Amused Moose Soho
  Soho
  Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
  
   (Winner)
• Scotland: Stand
  Stand
  Stand may refer to:*Stand, Greater Manchester, a residential area in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, England*A partnership in cricket*STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition...
  
   Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
   (Winner)
• North of England: XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
  , Manchester (Winner)
• Midlands: Just The Tonic (Winner)
• West/Wales: The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
   Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
   (Winner)
• South: Komedia, Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
   (Winner)

2002

Best touring comedian

• Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
   (Winner)
  • Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey
    Bill Bailey is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Rich Hall
    Rich Hall
    Richard "Rich" Hall is an American comedian, writer and musician.-Early life and career:Hall was born in Alexandria, Virginia and grew up in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He is part Cherokee Indian...
    
     as Otis Lee Crenshaw(Nominee)
  • Al Murray
    Al Murray
    Alastair James Hay "Al" Murray , is a British comedian best known for his stand-up persona, The Pub Landlord, a stereotypical xenophobic public house licensee. In 2003, he was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy...
    
     (Nominee)

Best male circuit comedian

• Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson
  Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
  
   (Winner)
  • Boothby Graffoe
    Boothby Graffoe (comedian)
    Boothby Graffoe , is an English comedian, singer, songwriter and playwright. He is particularly known for his surreal sense of humour and work with Canadian band Barenaked Ladies.-Early life:...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Lee Mack
    Lee Mack
    Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol
    Phil Nichol is a Canadian comedian, singer-songwriter, and actor.-Comedy:Nichol was born in Scotland to a Scottish mother, but raised in Canada. He first found fame as a member of the musical comedy trio Corky and the Juice Pigs, known for the song " Eskimo"...
    
     (Nominee)

Best female circuit comedian

• Jo Enright
  Jo Enright
  Jo Enright is an English stand-up comedian and actress who has appeared in a number of television and radio comedy programmes.-Biography:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Gina Yashere
    Gina Yashere
    Gina Obedapo Yashere is a British comedian of Nigerian descent.-Early life:Yashere was born in Bethnal Green, London, England. Her mother was an immigrant from Nigeria...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Jo Caulfield
    Jo Caulfield
    Josephine Caulfield is a British actress, writer and comedian.-Biography:Born in Wales to Irish parents, she was brought up in Derbyshire and Leicestershire England....
    
     (Nominee)
  • Julia Morris
    Julia Morris
    Julia Morris is an Australian writer, comedian, actress, television presenter and television producer who has worked extensively in Australian and British television and radio. She has toured widely with her solo stand-up comedy shows. In Australia, she is best known as one of the stars of the...
    
     (Nominee)

Best open mic

• Des Clarke (Winner)
  • Rohan Agalawatta (Nominee)
  • Steve Williams (Nominee)
  • Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp
    Miles Jupp is a British actor and comedian, probably best known as Archie in the children's television series Balamory....
    
     (Nominee)

Best compère

• Lee Mack
  Lee Mack
  Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...
  
   (Winner)
  • Simon Bligh (Nominee)
  • Boothby Graffoe
    Boothby Graffoe (comedian)
    Boothby Graffoe , is an English comedian, singer, songwriter and playwright. He is particularly known for his surreal sense of humour and work with Canadian band Barenaked Ladies.-Early life:...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Lee Hurst (Nominee)

Best sketch or character act

• League of Gentlemen (Winner)
  • Graham Fellows
    Graham Fellows
    Graham David Fellows is an English comedy actor and musician, best known for creating the characters of John Shuttleworth and Jilted John.-Early life:...
    
     for John Shuttleworth and Brian Appleton (Nominee)
  • Garth Marenghi
    Garth Marenghi
    Garth Marenghi is a fictional horror author and actor, created by English comedians Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and played by Holness. To date, the character has appeared in two stage shows, the Perrier Award-nominated Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight and Perrier Award-winning Garth...
    
     (Nominee)
  • Mackenzie Crook
    Mackenzie Crook
    Paul Mackenzie Crook is a British actor and comedian. He is best known for playing Gareth Keenan in The Office and Ragetti in the Pirates of the Caribbean films.-Life and career:...
    
     as Mr Bagshaw

Best contribution by a non-performer

• Malcolm Hay, comedy editor, Time Out (Winner)
  • Tommy Shepherd, director of The Stand comedy clubs(Nominee)
  • Don Ward founder of the Comedy Store (Nominee)
  • Agraman of The Buzz Club Manchester
    Manchester
    Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
    
    

People's choice

• Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
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  • Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
    
     (Runner-Up)

Comedians' comedian

• Ross Noble
  Ross Noble
  Ross Markham Noble is an English stand-up comedian, brought up in Cramlington, Northumberland, England.Noble rose to mainstream popularity through making appearances on British television, particularly interviews and on celebrity quiz shows such as Have I Got News for You...
  
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  • Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...
    
     (Runner-Up)

Outstanding contribution to comedy:

• Spike Milligan
  Spike Milligan
  Terence Alan Patrick Seán "Spike" Milligan Hon. KBE was a comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright, soldier and actor. His early life was spent in India, where he was born, but the majority of his working life was spent in the United Kingdom. He became an Irish citizen in 1962 after the...
  
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Best venues:
London (large):

• Up The Creek (Winner)
  • The Comedy Store
    The Comedy Store
    The Comedy Store is a comedy club located in West Hollywood, California, at 8433 Sunset Boulevard on the Sunset Strip. It has a sister comedy club in La Jolla, San Diego, California.-History:...
    
     (Runner-Up)

London (small):

• Amused Moose Soho
  Soho
  Soho is an area of the City of Westminster and part of the West End of London. Long established as an entertainment district, for much of the 20th century Soho had a reputation for sex shops as well as night life and film industry. Since the early 1980s, the area has undergone considerable...
  
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  • Loonatics at The Asylum (Runner-Up)

Scotland:

• Stand
  Stand
  Stand may refer to:*Stand, Greater Manchester, a residential area in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, England*A partnership in cricket*STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition...
  
   Glasgow
  Glasgow
  Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
  
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  • Stand
    Stand
    Stand may refer to:*Stand, Greater Manchester, a residential area in the Metropolitan Borough of Manchester, England*A partnership in cricket*STAND: A Student Anti-Genocide Coalition...
    
     Edinburgh
    Edinburgh
    Edinburgh is the capital city of Scotland, the second largest city in Scotland, and the eighth most populous in the United Kingdom. The City of Edinburgh Council governs one of Scotland's 32 local government council areas. The council area includes urban Edinburgh and a rural area...
    
     (Runner-Up)

North of England:

• XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey
  XS Malarkey is an award winning, not for profit comedy club in Fallowfield, Manchester.It is promoted and compered by the comedian and actor Toby Hadoke, and runs every Tuesday night. In 2007, a Guardian article described XS Malarkey as a "great example of how a club should be run"...
  
   in Manchester
  Manchester
  Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
  
  
  • Last Laugh
    Last Laugh
    Last Laugh may refer to:* "Last Laugh" , an episode of M*A*S*HThe Animated Series* "Last Laugh" , an episode of CSI: Crime Scene Investigation* "Last Laugh"...
    
     in Sheffield
    Sheffield
    Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
    
    

Midlands:

• Just The Tonic (Winner)
  • The Glee Club
    Glee Club (comedy club)
    The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
    
     Birmingham
    Birmingham
    Birmingham is a city and metropolitan borough in the West Midlands of England. It is the most populous British city outside the capital London, with a population of 1,036,900 , and lies at the heart of the West Midlands conurbation, the second most populous urban area in the United Kingdom with a...
    
     (Runner-Up)

West/Wales:

• The Glee Club
  Glee Club (comedy club)
  The Glee Club is a small chain of live stand-up comedy and live music venues in the UK.The first Glee Club was opened by Mark Tughan in Birmingham's Chinese Quarter in 1994, the first dedicated comedy club to open in the United Kingdom outside London....
  
   Cardiff
  Cardiff
  Cardiff is the capital, largest city and most populous county of Wales and the 10th largest city in the United Kingdom. The city is Wales' chief commercial centre, the base for most national cultural and sporting institutions, the Welsh national media, and the seat of the National Assembly for...
  
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  • Comedy Cavern Bath (Runner-Up)

South:

• Komedia Brighton
  Brighton
  Brighton is the major part of the city of Brighton and Hove in East Sussex, England on the south coast of Great Britain...
  
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  • Sanctum Hove
    Hove
    Hove is a town on the south coast of England, immediately to the west of its larger neighbour Brighton, with which it forms the unitary authority Brighton and Hove. It forms a single conurbation together with Brighton and some smaller towns and villages running along the coast...
    
    (Runner-Up)