Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program

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Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program
Country Australia
Presented by TV Week
First awarded1977
Currently held by Have You Been Paying Attention? (2023)
Website www.tvweeklogieawards.com.au

The Logie for Most Popular Comedy Program is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. It recognises the popularity of an Australian comedy program, which over the years have included scripted comedy series, sketch comedy, variety comedy shows and panel comedy shows.

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It was first awarded at the 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards, held in 1977 when the award was originally called Most Popular Australian Comedy. [1] Over the years, it has been known as Most Popular Variety/Panel Comedy Show (1978), Most Popular Comedy Show (1979, 1981, 1983), Most Popular Variety/Comedy Show (1980), Most Popular Comedy Series (1982), Most Popular Comedy Series (1985).

The award was discontinued in 1986 when nominees were included in the Most Popular Australian Light Entertainment Program category. From 1989 to 1992, that award was known as the Most Popular Light Entertainment Program/Comedy award. [2]

The category was reinstated as the Most Comedy Program in 1993 until 1999. [3] In 2000, the categories were again combined as the Most Popular Comedy/Light Entertainment Program award. [4] From 2018, the award category name was restored as Most Popular Comedy Program. [5]

The winner and nominees of this category are chosen by the public through an online voting survey on the TV Week website. [6] Full Frontal holds the record for the most wins, with four, followed by The Paul Hogan Show and Fast Forward with three each.

Winners and nominees

KeyMeaning
Indicates the winning program
YearProgramNetworkRef
1977 The Paul Hogan Show
[7]
1978 Blankety Blanks
[8]
1979 The Paul Hogan Show
Nine Network
1980 The Don Lane Show
Nine Network
1981 The Mike Walsh Show
Nine Network
1982 Kingswood Country
[9]
1983 Kingswood Country
Seven Network
1984 The Paul Hogan Show
Nine Network
1985 Hey Hey It's Saturday
Nine Network
1989 The Comedy Company
Network Ten
1990 The Comedy Company
Network Ten
1991 Fast Forward
1992 Fast Forward
Seven Network
1993 Fast Forward
Seven Network
1994 The Late Show
ABC
1995 Full Frontal
Seven Network
1996 Full Frontal
Seven Network
1997 Full Frontal
Seven Network
1998 Full Frontal
Seven Network
1999 Hey Hey It's Saturday
Nine Network
Good News Week
Network Ten
The Panel
Network Ten
Totally Full Frontal
Network Ten

From 2000 to 2017, comedy nominees were included in the Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program category.

YearProgramNetworkRef
2018 Have You Been Paying Attention?
Network Ten
Here Come The Habibs
Nine Network
Hughesy, We Have a Problem
Network Ten
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
True Story with Hamish & Andy
Nine Network
2019 Have You Been Paying Attention?
Network Ten
Hughesy, We Have a Problem
Network Ten
Rosehaven
ABC
Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures
Network Ten
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
True Story with Hamish & Andy
Nine Network
2022 Have You Been Paying Attention?
Network Ten
Aftertaste
ABC
Fisk
ABC
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
The Hundred with Andy Lee
Nine Network
The Cheap Seats
Network Ten
2023 Have You Been Paying Attention?
Network Ten
Fisk
ABC
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
ABC
The Front Bar
Seven Network
The Hundred with Andy Lee
Nine Network
Wellmania
Netflix

Multiple wins

NumberProgram
Wins
4
Full Frontal
Have You Been Paying Attention?
3
The Paul Hogan Show
Fast Forward
2
Hey Hey It's Saturday
Kingswood Country
The Comedy Company

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