British Comedy Awards 2006 Results…

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1. Ramen89 12/14/2006 @ 1:15am

   Star Stories was god awfull, but the majority of the “Best New TV Comedy” nominations were. Good to see Stephen Merchant deservedly win Best TV Comedy Actor, the speech for it was probably the highlight of the night, Gervais being condisending via Sattelite was absolutely priceless, and it was good to see Ross was as ruthless as usual. Hopefully 2007 will be a better year for new british comedy.

2. Richard Brunton 12/14/2006 @ 3:06am

   Big fab of Carr, Way for Wallace and Gromit, Harry Hill, Charlotte Church, Russell Brand and Catherine Tate I’m really not that sure about. I guess my comedy tastes aren’t with the populous.

3. LMS 12/14/2006 @ 3:27am

   Wasn’t there a best radio comedy category in previous years. Granted it was always the same nominees but to miss it out completely seems wrong especially as more and more comedians have their own radio show now.

4. Ramen89 12/14/2006 @ 7:39am

   Oh also, Catherine Tate is dire, how much longer can she get away with ripping off other comedians (mainly that of Little Britain)?

5. logboy 12/14/2006 @ 9:46am

   richard, i wouldn’t call myself a huge fan of jimmy carr, he has certainly rescued himself from the pit of a million ‘top 100’ shows, and i’m firmly in the camp that can’t deny a joke is funny whoever tells it - he tells some damn smart jokes, but he’s not particularly insightful or political, so he gets shunned by the comedy trendies, i suppose. as for other catagories (such as radio) i think there’s plenty of room for other stuff in here - radio is a massive area of comedy, but a lot of potential listeners (myself included) don’t really follow radio because it’s a generational thing with us young types to stick to TV (maybe…) rather than sift through a series of broadcasts that are seemingly naff on initial looks (radio 1 - what a travesty!) and so on… thing is, every year’s a good year for british comedy, but i think lots of it goes unnoticed by the british comedy awards - i’ve seen plenty i really liked this year, and yet the show / awards seem to stick to familiar, safe, popular ground all too often, instead of pointing out other worthy stuff that’s out there : hey, i’ve mentioned some great, some not so great, new and existing shows this year that didn’t even get nominated.

6. Ben 12/15/2006 @ 2:45am

   It should read: “Holocaust Denial Conference in Iran...”, or maybe it was Tehran? Anyway, I’m sure it wasn’t Israel.

7. logboy 12/15/2006 @ 6:29am

   ben - you’re right of course, it wasn’t israel, but i wrote this off the top of my head and at pace the morning after, and at that point there wasn’t much easy-to-find coverage of the awards other than the headline of merchant winning his particular award…. let alone quotes from the event. still, to save going back, at least the error is mentioned here (well spotted!) and sorry if it confused or upset anyone reading it.
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