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COMEDY TUMBLEWEED AWARDS 2005 |
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Honorary Mentions
Worst New TV Comedy:
FAQ U, Tittybangbang, 28 Acts in 28 Minutes, Broken News, Modern Toss, Don't Watch That Watch This, Meet the Magoons, What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson
Worst Comedy Newcomer:
Simon Farnaby, Spencer Brown, Claire Keelan, Ashley Jenen, Lucy Montgomery, Justin Lee Collins, John Oliver, Catherine Tate
Worst Comedy Actor:
Noel Fielding, Julian Barratt, Martin Freeman, Ardal O'Hanlon, Michael Pennington, Justin Lee Collins' fake yokel accent
Worst Comedy Actress:
Lucy Montgomery, Lucy Porter, Claire Keelan, Tamsin Greig, Sheridan Smith, Mel Giedroyc, Emma Kennedy
Worst Entertainment Programme:
FAQ U, Friday Night with Jonathan Ross, 18 Stone of Idiot, The Bigger Picture with Graham Norton, What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson, The Frank Skinner Show, Destination Three, Room 101, How to Start Your Own Country
Worst Comedy Entertainment Personality:
Russell Brand, Jonathan Ross, Iain Lee, Ant and Dec, 'that thing Ping Pong from T4', Michael Pennington, Danny Wallace
Worst Sitcom:
Extras, Blessed, Meet the Magoons, Absolute Power, Supernova, The Mighty Boosh, The Robinsons
Worst Over-All Channel For TV Comedy:
BBC1, E4, More4, BBC4, UK Gold, Sky Travel+1
Worst Radio Comedy:
Bearded Ladies, Dead Ringers, Genius with Dave Gorman, Heresy, The Problem with Adam Bloom, Parsons and Naylor's Pull-Out Section, Richard Herring reviewing the papers every Sunday on Andrew Collins' 6Music show, The News Quiz, Mastering The Universe, The Day the Music Died, Mitch Benn's Crimes Against Music, Armando Iannucci's Charm Offensive, the final episode of The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Quintessential Phase
Worst Stand-Up
John Oliver and Andy Zaltzman, Lucy Porter for the Smith and Jones Sketchbook warm-up, Mitch Benn, Martin Evans, Nina Conti, Tom Binns for the Return of The Goodies warm-up, Tony Law, Jethro, Al Murray, Joan Rivers, Douglas Bader
Worst Panel Show:
29 Minutes of Fame, Have I Got News For You, FAQ U, Mock the Week, Serious About Comedy, The Last Word, QI
Worst Clip Show/Talking Head Show:
2004: The Stupid Version, The Comedian's Comedian, The Story of ITV � The People's Channel, 'that fucking x-rated doc bollocks on Channel pissing 4', Newsnight Review, Flipside TV, The Curse of Noel Edmonds
Worst Sketch Show:
The Catherine Tate Show, Broken News, Look Around You Series 2, Tittybangbang, Man Stroke Woman
Worst Overall Comedy:
Not Tonight with John Sergeant, The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy film, Mitch Benn's Coldplay parody
Most Useless Talk/Panel Show Guest:
Justin Lee Collins, Alan Carr, Ross Noble, Ricky Gervais, Nick 'Narrator of Sky TV's Top Ten Mingers' Frost, Sean Lock, 'that git in the top hat' (Paul Foot), Matt Lucas and David Walliams, Alan Davies, John Oliver, Linda Smith, Jo Brand, Marc Wootton, Stephen Armstrong
Most Disappointing Return To Comedy:
Vic Reeves, Harry Hill, Peter Kay
Most Disappointing Comedy:
Heresy, Little Britain, QI, The Keith Barret Show, Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere, The Green Green Grass, Bromwell High, FAQ U, Look Around You Series 2, 2004:The Stupid Version
Most Disappointing Comedian:
Paul Merton, Peter Kay, Harry Hill, Rob Brydon for The Keith Barrett Show, Ardal O'Hanlon, Eddie Izzard, Reeves and Mortimer, Lucy Porter, Michael Pennington, Stewart Lee, Richard Herring
Most Over-Rated Show:
The Thick Of It, Family Guy, Popworld, Green Wing, Look Around You Series 2, The Catherine Tate Show, QI, The Mighty Boosh, Peep Show
Most Patronising/Annoying Reaction Shots In A Comedy Show:
Spoons, Green Wing, Nighty Night, Claire Ashcroft's lower lip in Nathan Barley, Little Britain WI vomit sketches, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Absolute Power, An Audience With�
Most Unintentionally Hilarious Programme:
John Oliver's incomprehensible jokes, especially the '1914 census' one
Most Jarringly Incongruous Cameo By Performer's Mates:
Heresy
Most Blatant Plagiarism:
Jonathan Ross ripping off Bob Dylan's views of Smokey Robinson on Heresy (a show about original thought)
Most Extraneous DVD Extra:
That Ricky Gervais quote on Stewart Lee's live DVD sleeve.
Most Obvious Bandwagon Jumping:
Jokes about Sudoku
Special Achievement Award (aka Special Needs Award):
Ricky Gervais selling his podcast as an altruistic, underground gesture
Blandest Transatlantic Import:
Darhma and Greg, Two and a Half Men, bird flu
Most Unironic Ironic-ism (ie racism, sexism, homophobia):
Keith Allen, Al Murray, Marcus Brigstocke doing 'mong' jokes on BBC4, William Hague
Worst Animal Whimsy Mention:
monkey lard (Broken News), monkey muff (Nathan Barley), monkeys generally (comedy passim), John Oliver's owl routine
Honorary Award For Lifetime Of Crap Contributions To Clip Shows:
Jackie Clune, Paul Morley, Mike Mclean, Meera Syal, Alexander Armstrong's 'fucking voiceovers'
Least Adventurous Commissioner Of New Comedy:
Radio 2, BBC4, Radio 1
Most Shameless Critical Volte-Face:
Jim Shelley, Kathryn Flett, Sam Wollaston, Tom Howard in Time Out, attitudes to the Star Wars franchise, Charlie Brooker's anger
Most Infuriating Editing Of Old Show:
BBC7's broadcasts of the Armando Iannucci Radio1 shows, Monty Python R1 DVD releases continuing to exist, Trial by TV on BBC4, the Filthy Rich and Catflap DVD, compilations of At Last the 1948 show being issued on DVD when original episodes exist, 'racist' lines cut from old sitcoms and TOTP2 lyrics,v Avalon re-editing the audience laughter on repeats of Harry Hill's Shark infested Custard
Most Annoyingly Self-Obsessed Chat Show Guest:
Jeremy Clarkson, David Walliams, Russell T Davies
Long-Running Comedy Show Which Should Be Killed Off:
The Simpsons
Worst Camera-work:
Man Stroke Woman
Most Ridiculous PR Dressed Up As 'Fan' Correspondence (or Most Pathetically Obvious Piece Of Viral Marketing):
Zeppotron people posting on internet forums, the 'Mitchell Brothers beaten up their wives' tabloid story, tabloid stories of that kind being played along with rather than attacked on What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson, the SOTCAA conspiracy for Extras, Rhys Phillips on the BBC7 messageboard, Steve Berry
The Jonathan Ross Award For Universally Accepted 'Bad Show' That It's Safe To Knock:
According to Bex, Carrie and Barry, Skinner and Baddiel Unplanned, Terry and June
The Ricky Gervais Award For The Comedian Who Should Just Give Up And Piss Off:
Charlie Brooker, Alan Carr, Nick 'Narrator of Sky TV's Top Ten Mingers' Frost, Adam and Joe, Stephen Fry, Richard Herring
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