The British Comedy Awards

British Comedy Awards
British Comedy Awards 2006 Logo
Awarded for	Most popular in Comedy
Location	London Palladium (1990) The London Studios (1991-2009) indigO2 (2010) Fountain Studios (2011-14)
Country	United Kingdom
Presented by	Michael Parkinson (1990) Jonathan Ross (1991–2007, 2009–14) Angus Deayton (2008)
First awarded	1990-2014
Official website	http://www.britishcomedyawards.com/

The British Comedy Awards was an annual awards ceremony in the United Kingdom celebrating notable comedians and entertainment performances of the previous year.

The 2015 Awards were cancelled after failing to find a broadcast partner after Channel 4 dropped the event and subsequently the awards would no longer take place.

The awards were shown live on ITV in December from 1990 to 2006, after which the broadcast of the British Comedy Awards 2007 was suspended by ITV due to allegations of irregularities and deception in the awarding of the 2005 People's Choice Award and then ongoing related investigations about the 2007 British television phone-in scandal resulting in Ofcom's subsequently fining ITV a record £5.675 million for its misuse of premium-rate telephone lines.

After Michael Parkinson presented the inaugural ceremony at the London Palladium in December 1990, subsequent shows have been presented by Jonathan Ross, staged at London Studios, and produced by Michael Hurll Television (MHTV), whose parent company is Unique Communications Group.Jonathan Ross announced that he would not be presenting the 2008 awards, in light of The Russell Brand Show prank telephone calls row and was replaced by Angus Deayton.

The 2007 show occurred on 6 December 2007, but was not televised due to the 2005 controversy and subsequent investigations. The following years ceremony was shown live on 6 December 2008. Compliance for the show was the responsibility of the ITV Compliance Unit of ITV Network Limited (consisting of members from ITV plc, STV Group, UTV Media, and Channel Television Ltd).