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Awards
Year
Audible Best Comedy Show Winner
The Taffner Family Best Newcomer Winner
2025
Sam Nicoresti
Baby Doomer
Ayoade Bamgboye
Swings and Roundabouts
2024
Amy Gledhill
Make Me Look Fit on the Poster
Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe
LIVE!!!
2023
Ahir Shah
Ends
Urooj Ashfaq
Oh No!
2022
Sam Campbell
Comedy Show
Lara Ricote
GRL/ LATNX/ DEF
2019
Jordan Brookes
I've Got Nothing
Catherine Cohen
The Twist…? She’s Gorgeous
2018
Rose Matafeo
Horndog
Ciarán Dowd
Don Rodolfo
2017
Hannah Gadsby and John Robins
Nanette and The Darkness of Robins
Natalie Palamides
Laid
2016
Richard Gadd
Monkey See Monkey Do
Scott Gibson
Life After Death
2015
Sam Simmons
Spaghetti for Breakfast
Sophie Hagen
Bubblewrap
2014
John Kearns
Shitck
Alex Edelman
Millennial
2013
Bridget Christie
A Bic for Her
John Kearns
Sight Gags for Perverts
2012
Doctor Brown
Befrdfgth
Daniel Simonsen
Champions
2011
Adam Riches
Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches
Humphrey Ker
Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher!
2010
Russell Kane
Smokescreens and Castles
Rosin Conaty
Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar
2009
Tim Key
The Slutcracker
Jonny Sweet
Mostly About Arthur
2008
David O'Doherty
Let's Comedy
Sarah Millican
Sarah Millican's Not Nice
2007
Brendon Burns
So I Suppose This is Offensive Now
Tom Basden
Won’t Say Anything
2006
Phil Nichol
The Naked Racist
Josie Long
Kindness and Exuberance
2005
Laura Solon
Kopfraper’s Syndrome
Tim Minchin
Darkside
2004
Jackson's Way
Will Adamsdale
Will Hodgson
The Passion of the Hodgson
2003
Demetri Martin
If I
Gary Le Strange
Polaroid Suitcase Waen Shepherd
2002
Daniel Kitson
Something
The Consultants
Finger in the Wind Justin Edwards, Neil Edmond and James Rawlings
2001
Gareth Marenghi's Netherhead
Richard Aoyade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe
Gareth Cruikshank and Eddie McCabe
Let’s Have a Shambles
2000
Rich Hall
Rich Hall is Otis Lee Crenshaw
Kim Noble and Stuart Silver
Noble and Silver
1999
Al Murray
And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady
Ben 'n' Arn's Big Top
Arnold Widdowson, Ben Willbond with Bernard Hughes
1998
Tommy Tiernan
Undivine Comedy
The Mighty Boosh
Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding with Rich Fulcher
1997
The League Of Gentlemen
Jeremy Dyson, Mark Gatiss, Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith
Arj Barker
Arj Barker's Letter to America
1996
Dylan Moran
Dylan Moran is Indisposed
Milton Jones
The Head
1995
Jenny Eclair
Prozac and Tantrums
Tim Vine
The Time Vine Fiasco
1994
Colin Lane and Frank Woodley
Lano & Woodley
Scott Capurro
Risk Gay
1993
Lee Evans
Dominic Holland
Red Hot Dutch with Dominic
1992
Steve Coogan
In Character With John Thomson
Harry Hill
Flies
1991
Frank Skinner
1990
Sean Hughes
A One Night Stand
1989
Simon Fanshawe
1988
Jeremy Hardy
1987
Arnold Brown with Barb Jungr & Michael Parker
Brown Blues
1986
Ben Keaton
Intimate Memoirs of an Irish Taxidermist
1985
Theatre De Complicité: Tim Barlow, Jos Houben, Marcello Magni, Simon McBurney
More Bigger Snacks Now
1984
The Brass Band
Loois Tooloose, Jimby, Fritz Frumheimer, The Captain and Buford
1983
Steve Kearney and Neil Gladwin
Los Trios Ringbarkus
1982
Writer's Inc.
including Victoria Pile, Jamie Rix, Nick Wilton
1981
Cambridge Footlights
Penny Dwyer, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Paul Shearer and Emma Thompson