Logie Award for Most Outstanding Comedy Program

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]

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[]

Key	Meaning
	Indicates the winning program

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

Year	Program	Network	Ref
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.

Year	Program	Network	Ref
1998	Frontline	ABC	[10]
	McFeast	ABC
	Club Buggery	ABC
2000	The Micallef Program	ABC	[11]
	BackBerner	ABC
	Good News Week	ABC
	The Panel	Network Ten
2001	The Games	ABC	[12]
	The Panel	Network Ten
	The Dream with Roy and HG	Seven Network
	Pizza	SBS
2002	The Micallef Program	Network Ten	[13]
	The Panel	Network Ten
	Rove Live	Network Ten
	Pizza	SBS
	The Election Chaser	ABC
	The Monday Dump	Seven Network
2003	Kath & Kim	ABC	[14]
	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	[15]
	CNNNN	ABC
	The Glass House	ABC
	Pizza	SBS
	An Audience with Dame Edna	The Comedy Channel
2005	The Chaser Decides	ABC	[16]
	Pizza	SBS
	Kath & Kim	ABC
	Derrick	The Comedy Channel
	John Safran vs God	SBS
2006	We Can Be Heroes	ABC	[17]
	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	[18]
	The Glass House	ABC
	Spicks & Specks	ABC
	The Chaser's War On Everything	ABC
	Stupid, Stupid Man	TV1
2008	Summer Heights High	ABC1	[19]
	Thank God You're Here	Network Ten
	Kath & Kim	Seven Network
	The Chaser's War On Everything	ABC
	Wilfred	SBS
2009	The Hollowmen	ABC	[20]
	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.

Year	Program	Network	Ref
2015	Utopia	ABC	[7]
	Upper Middle Bogan	ABC
	Black Comedy	ABC1
	Please Like Me	ABC2
	Legally Brown	SBS
2016	Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell	ABC	[21]
	Please Like Me	ABC2
	Utopia	ABC
	No Activity	Stan
	Open Slather	The Comedy Channel
2017	Please Like Me	ABC	[22]
	Upper Middle Bogan	ABC
	Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell	ABC
	Rosehaven	ABC
	Black Comedy	ABC

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

Multiple wins[]

See also[]

• Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program
• Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program
• Logie Award for Most Outstanding Drama Series

References[]

External links[]

• Official website