British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance

British Academy Television Award
The 2024 recipient: Mawaan Rizwan
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
First awarded	2009 (presented in 2010)
Currently held by	Mawaan Rizwan for Juice (2024)
Website	http://www.bafta.org/

This page lists the winners and nominees for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance, since its institution in 2009.

The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA), is a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.

Since 2009 (presented in 2010), there have been two separate comedy performance awards for Best Male Comedy Performance and Best Female Comedy Performance. Previously one award for Best Comedy Performance was presented. Steve Coogan has won the award three times, and Jamie Demetriou twice.

Winners and nominees

Peter Capaldi was the first recipient of the award in 2010, for The Thick of It.

Steve Coogan was won three times, for The Trip (2011), Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life (2013) and Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle (2017).

Richard Ayoade won for The IT Crowd in 2014.

Matt Berry won for Toast of London in 2015.

Steve Pemberton won for Inside No. 9 in 2019.

2010s

Year	Actor	Work	Character	Network	Ref.
2010 (56th)
	Peter Capaldi	The Thick of It	Malcolm Tucker	BBC Two
	Simon Bird	The Inbetweeners	Will McKenzie	E4
	Hugh Dennis	Outnumbered: The Christmas Special	Pete Brockman	BBC One
	David Mitchell	Peep Show	Mark Corrigan	Channel 4
2011 (57th)
	Steve Coogan	The Trip	Steve Coogan	BBC Two
	James Buckley	The Inbetweeners	Jay Cartwright	E4
	Tom Hollander	Rev.	Adam Smallbone	BBC Two
	Brendan O'Carroll	Mrs. Brown's Boys	Agnes Brown	BBC One
2012 (58th)
	Darren Boyd	Spy	Tim Elliot	Sky One
	Hugh Bonneville	Twenty Twelve	Ian Fletcher	BBC Four
	Tom Hollander	Rev.	Adam Smallbone	BBC Two
	Brendan O'Carroll	Mrs. Brown's Boys	Agnes Brown	BBC One
2013 (59th)
	Steve Coogan	Alan Partridge: Welcome to the Places of My Life	Alan Partridge	Sky Atlantic
	Hugh Bonneville	Twenty Twelve	Ian Fletcher	BBC Two
	Peter Capaldi	The Thick of It	Malcolm Tucker
	Greg Davies	Cuckoo	Ken Thompson	BBC Three
2014 (60th)
	Richard Ayoade	The IT Crowd	Maurice Moss	Channel 4
	Mathew Baynton	The Wrong Mans	Sam Pinkett	BBC Two
	James Corden		Phil Bourne
	Chris O'Dowd	The IT Crowd	Roy Trenneman	Channel 4
2015 (61st)
	Matt Berry	Toast of London	Steven Toast	Channel 4
	Brendan O'Carroll	Mrs. Brown's Boys : The Christmas Special	Agnes Brown	BBC One
	Hugh Bonneville	W1A	Ian Fletcher	BBC Two
	Tom Hollander	Rev.	Adam Smallbone
2016 (62nd)
	Peter Kay	Peter Kay's Car Share	John Redmond	BBC One
	Hugh Bonneville	W1A	Ian Fletcher	BBC Two
	Javone Prince	The Javone Prince Show	Various Characters	BBC Three
	Toby Jones	Detectorists	Lance Stater	BBC Four
2017 (63rd)
	Steve Coogan	Alan Partridge's Scissored Isle	Alan Partridge	Sky Atlantic
	Asim Chaudhry	People Just Do Nothing	Chabuddy G	BBC Three
	Harry Enfield	The Windsors	Prince Charles	Channel 4
	David Mitchell	Upstart Crow	William Shakespeare	BBC Two
2018 (64th)
	Toby Jones	Detectorists	Lance Stater	BBC Four
	Rob Brydon	The Trip to Spain	Rob Brydon	Sky Atlantic
	Asim Chaudhry	People Just Do Nothing	Chabuddy G	BBC Three
	Samson Kayo	Famalam	Various Characters
2019 (65th)
	Steve Pemberton	Inside No. 9	Various Characters	BBC Two
	Jamie Demetriou	Stath Lets Flats	Stath Charalambos	Channel 4
	Alex Macqueen	Sally4Ever	David	Sky Atlantic
	Peter Mullan	Mum	Michael	BBC Two

2020s

Year	Actor	Work	Character	Network	Ref.
2020 (66th)
	Jamie Demetriou	Stath Lets Flats	Stath Charalambos	Channel 4
	Guz Khan	Man Like Mobeen	Mobeen	BBC Three
	Ncuti Gatwa	Sex Education	Eric Effiong	Netflix
	Youssef Kerkour	Home	Sami Ibrahim	Channel 4
2021 (67th)
	Charlie Cooper	This Country	Lee "Kurtan" Mucklowe	BBC Three
	Guz Khan	Man Like Mobeen	Mobeen	BBC Three
	Joseph Gilgun	Brassic	Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill	Sky One
	Ncuti Gatwa	Sex Education	Eric Effiong	Netflix
	Paul Ritter	Friday Night Dinner	Martin Goodman	Channel 4
	Reece Shearsmith	Inside No.9	Various Characters	BBC Two
2022 (68th)
	Jamie Demetriou	Stath Lets Flats	Stath Charalambos	Channel 4
	Ncuti Gatwa	Sex Education	Eric Effiong	Netflix
	Joseph Gilgun	Brassic	Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill	Sky Comedy
	Samson Kayo	Bloods	Maleek	Sky One
	Steve Coogan	This Time with Alan Partridge	Alan Partridge	BBC One
	Tim Renkow	Jerk	Tim	BBC Three
2023 (69th)	Lenny Rush	Am I Being Unreasonable?	Ollie	BBC One
	Daniel Radcliffe	Weird: The Al Yankovic Story	"Weird Al" Yankovic	The Roku Channel
	Jon Pointing	Big Boys	Danny	Channel 4
	Joseph Gilgun	Brassic	Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill	Sky Max
	Matt Berry	What We Do in the Shadows	Laszlo Cravensworth	Disney+
	Stephen Merchant	The Outlaws	Greg Dillard	BBC One
2024 (70th)	Mawaan Rizwan	Juice	Jamal "Jamma" Jamshidi	BBC Three
	Adjani Salmon	Dreaming Whilst Black	Kwabena	BBC Three
	David Tennant	Good Omens	Crowley	Prime Video
	Hammed Animashaun	Black Ops	Kay	BBC One
	Jamie Demetriou	A Whole Lifetime with Jamie Demetriou	Various characters	Netflix
	Joseph Gilgun	Brassic	Vincent "Vinnie" O'Neill	Sky Max

Superlatives

Record	Actor	Programme	Age (in years)
Oldest winner	Peter Capaldi	The Thick Of It	52
Oldest nominee	Peter Mullan	Mum	59
Youngest winner	Lenny Rush	Am I Being Unreasonable?	14
Youngest nominee	Lenny Rush	Am I Being Unreasonable?	14

Actors with multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins

3 wins

• Steve Coogan

2 wins

• Jamie Demetriou

Multiple nominations

The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Male Comedy Performance multiple times:

4 nominations

• Hugh Bonneville
• Steve Coogan
• Jamie Demetriou
• Joe Gilgun

3 nominations

• Ncuti Gatwa
• Tom Hollander
• Brendan O'Carroll

2 nominations

• Matt Berry
• Peter Capaldi
• Asim Chaudhry
• Toby Jones
• Samson Kayo
• David Mitchell

Programmes with multiple wins and nominations

Multiple nominations

4 nominations

• Brassic

3 nominations

• Mrs. Brown's Boys
• Rev.
• Sex Education
• Stath Lets Flats

2 nominations

• Detectorists
• The Inbetweeners
• Inside No. 9
• The IT Crowd
• Man Like Mobeen
• People Just Do Nothing
• The Thick of It
• Twenty Twelve
• The Wrong Mans
• W1A

External links

• BAFTA official site
• BAFTA Awards, Internet Movie Database