Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series
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The Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in Comedy Series is an annual Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best leading performance by an actor in a Canadian television comedy series.
The award was first presented in 1986 as part of the Gemini Awards. However, as Canadian television comedy was dominated by sketch comedy rather than narrative sitcoms in the late 1980s and 1990s, the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy Series were discontinued after 1987,[1] with only a single gender-neutral award presented for best individual performance in a comedy series thereafter. With the revival of scripted narrative comedy series in the 2000s, separate awards for actors and actresses were reinstated in 2011, and have been presented since then as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
1980s[]
| Year | Actor | Series |
|---|---|---|
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | ||
| Louis Del Grande | Seeing Things | |
| Don Adams | Check it Out! | |
| David Eisner | Hangin' In | |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | ||
| Louis Del Grande | Seeing Things | |
| David Eisner | Hangin' In |
2010s[]
2020s[]
| Year | Actor | Series | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience | [2] | |
| Jared Keeso | Letterkenny | [3] | |
| Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek | ||
| Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek | ||
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | |||
| Darryl Hinds | Overlord and the Underwoods | [4] | |
| Jared Keeso | Letterkenny | ||
| Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience | ||
| Simu Liu | Kim's Convenience | ||
| Jason Priestley | Private Eyes |
References[]
- ^ Mike Boone, "Gemini Awards highlight enduring problems of Canadian TV". Montreal Gazette, November 30, 1998.
- ^ Naman Ramachandran, "‘Schitt’s Creek,’ ‘Blood Quantum’ Triumph at Canadian Screen Awards". Variety, May 21, 2021.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "Television Nominees Announced For 2021 Canadian Screen Awards, ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Leads The Pack With 21 Nominations". ET Canada, March 30, 2021.
- ^ Brent Furdyk, "2022 Canadian Screen Award Nominees Announced, ‘Sort Of’ & ‘Scarborough’ Lead The Pack". ET Canada, February 15, 2022.
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- Best Actor in a Comedy Series Canadian Screen Award winners