British Comedy Awards 2006

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was last night and these were the nominees, winners:

Best TV Comedy Actor
David Mitchell / Robert Webb (Peep Show)
Ricky Gervais (Extras)
Stephen Merchant (Extras) - WINNER

Best Comedy Entertainment Personality
Ant & Dec (Saturday Night Takeaway / I'm A Celebrity / Poker Face)
Harry Hill (Harry Hill's TV Burp) - WINNER
Paul Merton (Have I Got News For You)

Best Male Comedy Newcomer
Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins (The Friday Night Project)
Kevin Bishop (Star Stories)
Russell Brand (Russell Brand's Got Issues) - WINNER

Best Female Comedy Newcomer
Charlotte Church (The Charlotte Church Show) - WINNER
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd)
Miranda Hart (Hyperdrive)

Best Comedy Entertainment Programme
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1)
Harry Hill's TV Burp (ITV1) - WINNER
Have I Got News For You (BBC One)

Outstanding Contribution To Entertainment
Chris Tarrant

Writers Guild of Great Britain Ronnie Barker Award
Sacha Baron Cohen, Dan Mazer, Anthony Hines, Peter Baynham for Borat

People's Choice Award
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (ITV1) - WINNER
Extras (BBC Two)
8 Out Of 10 Cats (Channel 4)
Friday Night With Jonathan Ross (BBC One)
Green Wing (Channel 4)
Little Britain (BBC One)
Northern Lights (ITV1)
That Mitchell & Webb Look (BBC Two)

Best TV Comedy Actress
Catherine Tate (Catherine Tate Xmas Special) - WINNER
Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd)
Tamsin Greig (Green Wing)

Britain's Best New TV Comedy
Star Stories (Channel 4) - WINNER
Suburban Shootout (Five / Paramount Comedy)
That Mitchell & Webb Look (BBC Two)

Best TV Comedy
Extras (BBC Two)
Peep Show (Channel 4) - WINNER
The Thick Of It (BBC Four) (distinctly few cheers when announced)

Best Stage Comedy
Little Britain - WINNER
Robin Ince's Book Club
The League Of Gentlemen Are Behind You
The Mighty Boosh
The Two Faces Of Mitchell And Webb

Best Comedy Film
Confetti
Little Miss Sunshine
Wallace & Gromit in the Curse of the Were-Rabbit - WINNER

Best International Comedy Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO / More4) - WINNER
Everybody Hates Chris (The CW / Five / Paramount)
The Office: An American Workplace (NBC / ITV2)
- thankfully no Simpsons

Best Live Stand-Up Tour
Al Murray (... And Another Thing)
Jimmy Carr (Gag Reflex) - WINNER
Lee Evans (XL - UK Tour 2005)
Lee Mack (The 2006 Stand Up Tour)
Ross Noble (Fizzy Logic)
Russell Brand (Shame)

Still Game foolishly ignored.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link

Why is Little Miss Sunshine a British film? Or is that an international category for some reason, in which case how is Confetti in the top 3 comedy films of the year? I haven't actually seen it or anything, but that sounds implausible.

― Alba (Alba), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Harry Hill collected his first award from Kyle Glass of Tenacious D, only to shout 'BALDY! BALDY!' at him and then launch into Amy Winehouse's 'Rehab'. this is all it takes from him to get me roffling hard.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:28 (seventeen years ago) link

Alba I think they have a heavy British lean but let American films in if they run out of Brit coms. I can't think of any other British comedy films this year but I admit I'm not trying very hard. I guess Alien Autopsy didn't make the extremely shortlist.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link

Oliver Stone's deeply misjudged "Jack the Ripper" gag was the "highlight" of the evening (but by then we were on ITV2).

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

The "what can possibly go wrong with taking a fuck-off big python on stage - oh, yeah, everything" moment was good. Oliver Stone was off his tits, wasn't he? I missed this, but read it elsewhere - did Nick Park compliment him on Full Metal Jacket in an attempt to pwn him re. the Jack The Ripper comments?

Courtney Love mauling Boosh dude on ITV2 was good too.

Stephen Merchant not getting to do an acceptance speech in order that they could go live to Ricky Gervais doing his smug twat thing was a bit off. I'm sure they scripted it so that Merchant could milk the "you still have to give airtime to him" thing, but surely he deserves better.

I liked all the embarrassed looks and shuffling whenever anyone mentioned "The Thick Of It".

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:48 (seventeen years ago) link

Oh, and, as if it needed saying, Lenny Henry = not funny.

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:50 (seventeen years ago) link

Yes, Oliver Stone and his hilarious Jack the Ripper album.

Do we think a track or two is going to be discreetly taken off the Jarvis Cocker album before long?

― Marcello Carlin (nostudium), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:51 (seventeen years ago) link

what a celebration (peep show aside, and that was SO 2004) of tripe. ugh.

this whole list is implausible.

and it reeks of ITV.

― I am the best lyrocost since Dylan (Scourage), Thursday, 14 December 2006 16:58 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on, did they ever explain why Mitchell and Webb got a joint nomination for best actor yet Gervais and Merchant got separate ones? Except as a set-up for the Merchant-wins-but-Gervais-gets-to-upstage-him-anyway "gag".

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:37 (seventeen years ago) link

yeah that's stupid. there's no reason for them to only have three noms for some categories either. other than perhaps to cut costs on venue size perhaps.

― sede vacante (blueski), Thursday, 14 December 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link

Russell Brand is not new, he is merely newly acceptable, and not for long.

― Onimo has his finger in the stink (nu_onimo), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link

Hang on, Extras and Little Britain were nominated for the People's Choice Awards and didn't even get through to the four voted for on the night?

(Russell Brand's face when Liza Tarbuck was playing him some cobbled-together-clip of old shite that had won previously (Kris Marshall, James Dreyfuss, etc) and going "look, you must be so proud to be following in the footsteps of these people" (and sounding worryingly sincere about it) was quality.)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:04 (seventeen years ago) link

The two series of Extras have been nominated for twice as many awards as the two series of The Office. Just think about that for a second.

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:06 (seventeen years ago) link

I'd rather not if it's all the same to you.

(can we all agree that Star Stories is the worst winner of anything ever?)

― ailsa_xx (ailsa_xx), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:07 (seventeen years ago) link

http://chilled.cream.org/tumbleweed/

― Dom Passantino (DomPassantino), Thursday, 14 December 2006 18:10 (seventeen years ago) link

The intro speech by Johnathan Ross was very "kick everyone's arse"

― M Grout (Mark Grout), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:18 (seventeen years ago) link

i lolled at the Catherine Zeta-Jones Star Stories

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:22 (seventeen years ago) link

That Cook'd and Bomb'd thing... Jesus Christ, is it possible to get more than a page into it without losing the will to live?

TV comedy today is a pale facsimile of TV comedy between '88 and '95, yes, yes, we get it - look at all the parallels, very clever. If there's one thing worse than slightly lame TV comedy it's fucking dishwater-weak satire about same with bloody cartoons.

― Michael Jones (MichaelJ), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:33 (seventeen years ago) link

the following Tumbleweed awards are OTM:

Worst Sitcom:
Extras - Series 2
Worst Sketch Show:
Tittybangbang
Worst New TV Comedy:
Tittybangbang
Worst Overall Comedy:
Tittybangbang
~~Most Inexplicably Recommissioned Comedy Show~~*:
Tittybangbang
*except it's on BBC Three thus actually quite explicable
Worst International Comedy Show:
The Simpsons
Worst Comedy DVD Release:
TittyBangBang
Most Over-Rated Comedy:
Extras - Series 2
Most Irritating Or Pointless Cameo:
Robert De Niro (in Extras - Series 2)
Most Blatant Plagiarism:
Lead Balloon (Curb Your Enthusiasm)
Most Unironic Ironicism:
Extras (Particularly the 'Gay Play') / Little Britain (Particularly Ting Tong)
Worst Camerawork:
Green Wing
The More Effort In Their Hairstyles Than Their Material Award:
Russell Brand

― sede vacante (blueski), Friday, 15 December 2006 16:41 (seventeen years ago) link

I can't be too churlish about this, as it's nice to see TV Burp and Peep Show picking up awards.

― Chap (chap), Saturday, 16 December 2006 01:21 (seventeen years ago) link

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