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.

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.

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.

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

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”.

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

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?

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

this whole list is implausible.

and it reeks of ITV.

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”.

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.

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

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.)

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.

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?)

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The intro speech by Johnathan Ross was very “kick everyone’s arse”

i lolled at the Catherine Zeta-Jones Star Stories

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.

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

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