Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program

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Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program
Country Australia
Presented by TV Week
First awarded1967
Website www.tvweeklogieawards.com.au

The Silver Logie for Most Outstanding Comedy Program is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award is given to recognise an outstanding Australian comedy series. The winner and nominees of this award are chosen by television industry juries. [1]

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It was first awarded at the 9th Annual TV Week Logie Awards ceremony, held in 1967 as Best Comedy. [2] The award was renamed many times in subsequent ceremonies; Best Australian Comedy (1968, 1972-1974), [2] [3] Best Comedy Show (1969), [2] Best Comedy (1970). [3] This award category was eliminated in 1975.

The category was reinstated as the Most Outstanding Achievement in Comedy Program in 1998 [4] but in 1999, the category was dropped. From 2000, the award category was restored as Most Outstanding Comedy Program. [5] In 2010, the category changed to Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program which included comedy panel, talent and variety shows. [6] From 2015, the category was split into Most Outstanding Entertainment Program and a reinstated Most Outstanding Comedy Program category. [7] This award category was eliminated again in 2018. [8]

Winners and nominees

KeyMeaning
‡Indicates the winning program

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Best Australian Comedy.

YearProgramNetworkRef
1967 My Name's McGooley, What's Yours? ‡
Seven Network
[2]
1968 My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?‡
Seven Network
1969 I've Married A Bachelor ‡
ABC
1971 Noel Ferrier's Australia A-Z‡
ABC
[3]
1972 The Group ‡
Nine Network
1973 The Godfathers ‡
Seven Network
1974 The Aunty Jack Show ‡
ABC
[9]

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year for Most Outstanding Comedy Program.

YearProgramNetworkRef
1998 Frontline ‡
ABC
McFeast
ABC
Club Buggery
ABC
2000 The Micallef Program ‡
ABC
BackBerner
ABC
Good News Week
ABC
The Panel
2001 The Games ‡
ABC
The Panel
Network Ten
The Dream with Roy and HG
Pizza
SBS
2002 The Micallef Program‡
The Panel
Network Ten
Rove Live
Network Ten
Pizza
SBS
The Election Chaser
ABC
The Monday Dump
Seven Network
2003 Kath & Kim ‡
ABC
CNNNN
ABC
The Ice Dream with Roy and HG
Seven Network
Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures
Network Ten
John Safran's Music Jamboree
ABC
2004 Kath & Kim ‡
ABC
CNNNN ‡
ABC
The Glass House
ABC
Pizza
SBS
An Audience with Dame Edna
2005 The Chaser Decides ‡
ABC
Pizza
SBS
Kath & Kim
ABC
Derrick
The Comedy Channel
John Safran vs God
SBS
2006 We Can Be Heroes ‡
ABC
The Glass House
ABC
Spicks & Specks
ABC
The Ronnie Johns Half Hour
Network Ten
Comedy Inc.: The Late Shift
Nine Network
2007 Thank God You're Here ‡
Network Ten
The Glass House
ABC
Spicks & Specks
ABC
The Chaser's War On Everything
ABC
Stupid, Stupid Man
TV1
2008 Summer Heights High ‡
Thank God You're Here
Network Ten
Kath & Kim
Seven Network
The Chaser's War On Everything
ABC
Wilfred
SBS
2009 The Hollowmen ‡
ABC
Very Small Business
ABC1
Review with Myles Barlow
ABC1
Mark Loves Sharon
Network Ten
Mr Firth Goes To Washington
SBS

From 2010 to 2014, comedy nominees were included in the Most Outstanding Light Entertainment Program category.

YearProgramNetworkRef
2015 Utopia ‡
ABC
[7]
Upper Middle Bogan
ABC
Black Comedy
ABC1
Please Like Me
Legally Brown
SBS
2016 Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell ‡
ABC
Please Like Me
Utopia
ABC
No Activity
Open Slather
The Comedy Channel
2017 Please Like Me ‡
ABC
Upper Middle Bogan
ABC
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
Rosehaven
ABC
Black Comedy
ABC

From 2019 to 2022, comedy nominees were included in the Most Outstanding Entertainment Program category.

YearProgramNetworkRef
2023 Colin From Accounts
Fisk
ABC
Have You Been Paying Attention?
Network Ten
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
Summer Love
ABC
Taskmaster Australia
Network Ten

Multiple wins

Wins
NumberProgram
2
 My Name's McGooley, What's Yours?
2
 The Micallef Program
2
 Kath & Kim

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  7. 1 2 Knox, David (3 May 2015). "TV Week Logie Awards 2015: winners". TV Tonight. Retrieved 4 May 2015.
  8. ↑ Knox, David (28 May 2018). "Logie revamp drops categories". TV Tonight. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
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  22. ↑ Knox, David (23 April 2017). "TV Week Logie Awards 2017: winners". TV Tonight. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
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