2026 Winners and Nominees
Best Comedy Show
Winner
Chris Cantrill
Rewilding
Nominees
Dan Tiernan
Quartz and All
Harriet Dyer
Easily Distra …
Lara Ricote
INKLING
Li Jin Hao
Falling From a Moon
Spencer Jones
Dogs
Best Newcomer
Winner
Marty Gleeson
Dog Ear
Nominees
Dom McGovern
Prize Hog
Fatiha El-Ghorri
Cockney Stacking Doll
Freddie Meredith
Need a Light?
Omar Badawy
Guided Detour
Tom Towelling
Teaches You to Knit
UNDERGROUND MONK SHOW
Panel Prize
Winner
Liebenspiel (Benjamin Alborough and Ellie BW) and Jonathan Oldfield and Lorna Rose Treen
One Joke
Panel
Liz Lewin (Panel Chair)
Director of Comedy Series, Netflix UK
Sasha Bobak
Comedy and Entertainment Producer, BBC Studios
Sam Bryant
Director of Original Content / Head of Comedy, Audible
Amar Chauhan
Public Panellist
Tristram Fane Saunders
Freelance Arts Journalist and Comedy Critic, The Telegraph
Isabelle Jackson
Public Panellist
Dominic Maxwell
Comedy and Theatre Critic for The Times and The Sunday Times
Louise Robb
Public Panellist
Anya Ryan
Comedy and Theatre Critic at The Guardian, The Times, TimeOut, The Stage
Darren Smith
Creative Director, DLT Entertainment
Scouts
Paul Abbey, Sam Anderson, Alexandra Caven, Dave Deverick, Jane Dempsey, Joe Gardner, Jake Helliwell, Janet Jackson, Krishna Kapur, Beth Moon, Steve Morton, Sam Moulton, Patrick Nicholls, Tim O’Connor, Justine Teasdale, Sarah Slack, Grainne Smyth, Ross Stark and Michael Thomson.