2010 British Comedy Award Winners

2010 British Comedy Award Winners

24 January, 2011
by: Spoonfedcomedy

Queen of Harts, Miranda picks up three awards at the 2010 British Comedy Awards.

Comedian Miranda Hart cleaned up at the 21st annual British Comedy Awards, picking up three awards for her starring role in the BBC Two sitcom, Miranda.

The popular television show was awarded Best New British Comedy, while the talented performer won Best New Comedy Actress, as well as the public-voted People's Choice Award.

The award ceremony held at the O2 Arena on Saturday evening was aired live on Channel 4, following 20 years of being broadcast by ITV. Despite much hype and high ratings (averaging 2.53m viewers), not all home viewers were pleased with the ceremony. Tweets from comedy fans throughout the evening featured comments such as:

#cragdoo: "Irony: The British Comedy Awards not being funny!"

#naomisayers: "Can't sleep... Partly out of depression at how unfunny the British comedy awards are. All those comedians in the room and not funny."

Others were disappointed by lack of presence of two of the biggest stars. Michael McIntyre and Russell Brand both accepted their awards from afar - McIntyre was in Liverpool filming the new series of Britain's Got Talent, while Brand pulled out of the ceremony at short notice to support an ill friend.

Other winners of 2010 British Comedy Awards include:

BEST COMEDY PANEL SHOW - Would I Lie To You
BEST COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PROGRAMME - Newswipe
BEST COMEDY ENTERTAINMENT PERSONALITY - Harry Hill
BEST MALE TV COMIC - Michael McIntyre
BEST FEMALE TV COMIC - Jo Brand
BEST MALE COMEDY BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST - John Bishop
BEST FEMALE COMEDY BREAKTHROUGH ARTIST - Samantha Spiro
BEST SKETCH SHOW - Horrible Histories
BEST SITCOM - The Inbetweeners
BEST COMEDY ACTOR - Peter Capaldi
BEST BRITISH COMEDY PERFORMANCE IN FILM - Kayvan Novak
OUTSTANDING CONTRIBUTION TO COMEDY - Russell Brand
THE WRITERS’ GUILD OF GREAT BRITAIN - Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong
THE BRITISH COMEDY ACADEMY LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD - Roy Clarke


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