Smoked out
BBC3 sitcom defeats Gervais
Ricky Gervais has lost out on a comedy award to the comparatively little-seen BBC Three sitcom The Smoking Room.
Readers of lads' mag Loaded have voted the show the best comedy on TV, just ahead of Gervais's Extras.
The achievement is all the more remarkable as The Smoking Room, even when screened on BBC Two, attracts just over a quarter of Extra's 4.6 million audience.
In a similar award run by rival magazine FHM last month, Little Britain predictably took the title.
Today's Loaded Lafta awards also hailed Bruce Forsyth as a comedy legend.
The 77-year-old said: 'It’s very nice to get the title and especially to know that you have made contact with young people and that they like what you’re doing.'
And he added: 'I'm moved - or maybe it's the Jack Daniels.'
In other awards, Little Britain's David Walliams and Matt Lucas were named funniest double act for the second year in a row, while Jimmy Carr beat Gervais to take funniest man of the year.
Scott Mills won funniest DJ, beating his Radio 1 stablemate Chris Moyles.
Published: 6 Oct 2005
