As best stand-up nominees also announced

Channel 4 comics Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan are both to receive special accolades at the broadcaster’s National Comedy Awards tonight.

And the nominees for the best stand-up show have been revealed, which will be voted for during the broadcast.

Lycett will receive the ‘comedy game-changer award’ created by judges in recognition of his work to inspire social change through comedy, from  confronting Shell on greenwashing to challenging David Beckham to relinquish his role as an ambassador for FIFA World Cup in Qatar.

While Gilligan will get an ‘impact in comedy award in acknowledgement of his efforts to use his platform to shine a light on other black comics, including his Black British Takeover gigs at The O2.

Nominees for the best stand-up show  are:

• Sam Campbell: Comedy Show
• Tim Key: Mulberry
• Amy Gledhill: The Girl Before The Girl You Marry
• Joe Lycett: More, More, More! How Do You Joe Lycett? How Do You Joe Lycett?
• Jordan Gray: Is It A Bird?

Even though only a fraction of the TV audience are likely to have seen the shows, this will be decided via a Twitter vote with the mechanism annoucned during the broadcast.

The National Comedy Awards for Stand Up To Cancer, hosted by Tom Allen, will be  broadcast live on Channel 4 at 9pm tonight.

The recipients of the comedy breakthrough star awards have previously been announced as Cheaters star Susan Wokoma, stand-up and singer Jordan Gray and Am I Being Unreasonable? scene-stealer Lenny Rush.

The other nominees are:

Best Scripted Comedy

Ghosts
Don’t Hug Me I’m Scared
Derry Girls 
After Life

Best Comedy Entertainment Show

The Graham Norton Show 
Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing
Taskmaster 
The Chris and Rosie Ramsey Show 

Best Comedy Panel Show 

Mock the Week
8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown  
QI
Would I Lie to You?

Best Comedy Podcast

Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe’s Parenting Hell 
Shagged, Married, Annoyed with Chris and Rosie Ramsey
Off Menu with Ed Gamble and James Acaster
Have A Word

Outstanding Comedy Actress

Rose Matafeo (Starstruck)
Saoirse Monica Jackson (Derry Girls)
Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters)
Charlotte Ritchie (Ghosts)
Daisy May Cooper (Am I Being Unreasonable?)

Outstanding Comedy Actor

Dylan Llewellyn (Big Boys)
Ricky Gervais (After Life)
Joseph Gilgun (Brassic)
Kiell Smith-Bynoe (Ghosts)
Stephen Merchant (Outlaws)

Outstanding Supporting Role

Jamie Lee O’Donnell (Derry Girls)
David Earl (After Life)
Lolly Adefope (Ghosts)
Siobhan McSweeney (Derry Girls)
Diane Morgan (After Life)

Outstanding Female Comedy Entertainment Performer

Fern Brady (Taskmaster)
Sandi Toksvig (QI)
Judi Love (Taskmaster)
Katherine Ryan (Backstage with Katherine Ryan)
Sarah Millican (Taskmaster)

Outstanding Male Comedy Entertainment Performer

Greg Davies (Taskmaster)
Joe Lycett (Joe Lycett’s Big Pride Party)
Munya Chawawa (Taskmaster)
Lee Mack (Would I Lie to You?)
Alex Horne (Taskmaster)

Published: 17 Feb 2023