Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program

Australian television award

Logie Award for Most Popular Comedy Program
Country	Australia
Presented by	TV Week
First awarded	1977
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.

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

Key	Meaning
‡	Indicates the winning program

Year	Program	Network	Ref
1977	The Paul Hogan Show‡	Nine Network	^[7]
1978	Blankety Blanks‡	Network Ten	^[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‡	Seven Network	^[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	^[10]
1990	The Comedy Company‡	Network Ten	^[11]
1991	Fast Forward‡	Seven Network
1992	Fast Forward‡	Seven Network
1993	Fast Forward‡	Seven Network
1994	The Late Show‡	ABC	^[12]
1995	Full Frontal‡	Seven Network
1996	Full Frontal‡	Seven Network
1997	Full Frontal‡	Seven Network
1998	Full Frontal‡	Seven Network	^[13]
1999	Hey Hey It's Saturday‡	Nine Network	^[14]
	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.

Year	Program	Network	Ref
2018	Have You Been Paying Attention?‡	Network Ten	^[15]
	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	^[16]
	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

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

References

^ "Logie Awards 1974-1977". australian television information archive. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
^ "Logie Awards 1986-1989". australian television information archive. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
^ "Logie Awards 1990-1993". australian television information archive. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
^ "Logie Awards 2000". australian television information archive. Retrieved 12 June 2018.
^ Knox, David (5 March 2018). "Voting opens for 2018 Logie Awards". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
^ Knox, David (5 December 2011). "Logie 2012 voting opens". TV Tonight. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
^ "1974–1977 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^ "1978–1981 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^ "1982–1985 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 10 February 2014.
^ "1986–1989 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^ "1990–1993 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^ "1994–1997 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^ "1998 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Archived from the original on 19 October 2013. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^ "1999 Logie Awards". Australiantelevision.net. Retrieved 15 April 2014.
^ Knox, David (1 July 2018). "60th Logie Awards: winners". TV Tonight. Retrieved 2 July 2018.
^ Knox, David (30 June 2019). "Logie Awards 2019: winners". TV Tonight. Retrieved 1 July 2019.