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List of comedy and humor awards

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This list of comedy and humor awards provides an index to articles on notable awards for comedy and humor, including writing and performance. The list is organized by the country of the sponsoring organization, although a few of the awards are not restricted to one country.

Country Award Medium Sponsor
Australia AACTA Award for Best Television Comedy Series Television Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts
Australia ARIA Award for Best Comedy Release Recording Australian Recording Industry Association
Australia Brian McCarthy Memorial Moosehead Award Stage Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australia Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer Stage Live Performance Australia
Australia Logie Awards Television TV Week
Australia Melbourne International Comedy Festival Award Stage Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australia Piece of Wood Award Stage Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australia Raw Comedy Stage Melbourne International Comedy Festival
Australia Russell Prize Writing State Library of New South Wales
Canada Canadian Comedy Awards various Canadian Comedy Awards
Canada Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year Recording Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Canada Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour Writing Stephen Leacock Associates
Germany Deutscher Comedypreis Television Köln Comedy Festival
India Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award for Humour Writing Kerala Sahitya Akademi
Italy International Festival of the Humor of Bordighera Varied Cesare Perfetto
New Zealand Billy T Award Stage New Zealand Comedy Trust
Spain Gat Perict Perich International Humor Prizes Cartoons
United Kingdom Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Writing Bollinger
United Kingdom BBC New Comedy Award Radio BBC
United Kingdom Edinburgh Comedy Awards Stage Edinburgh Festival Fringe
United Kingdom Funny Women Awards Stage Funny Women
United Kingdom Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Stage Leicester Mercury
United Kingdom Midlands Comedy Awards Stage Midlands Comedy Awards
United Kingdom NATYS: New Acts of the Year Show Stage New Variety Lives
United Kingdom Pride of Manchester Awards Varied Pride Of Manchester
United Kingdom So You Think You're Funny Stage Edinburgh Festival Fringe
United Kingdom Time Out Comedy Awards Varied Time Out (magazine)
United Kingdom British Comedy Awards Varied British Comedy Awards
United Kingdom Chortle Awards Stage Chortle
United Kingdom City Life Comedian of the Year Stage City Life (magazine)
United States American Comedy Awards Television NBC
United States ECNY Awards Varied ECNY Awards
United States Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album Recording The Recording Academy
United States Mark Twain Prize for American Humor Varied John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
United States NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Comedy Series Television NAACP
United States The Comedy Awards Television Comedy Central
United States Thurber Prize for American Humor Writing Thurber House
United States Comedy Prize Stage Prize Foundation

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