Comedy Award
Subcategory of AWGIE Awards
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Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2024

winner (Situation or Narrative) form y separately published work icon The Flash Harriet Dyer , ( dir. Trent O'Donnell ) Australia : Easy Tiger Productions CBS Studios , 2022 27448596 2022 single work film/TV

Year: 2022

winner (Situation or Narrative) form y separately published work icon Chlamydia and Nits Lipstick and Nits Kala Ellis , ( dir. Darren Ashton ) Australia : Northern Pictures , 2021 26410638 2021 single work film/TV

Year: 2021

winner (Situation or Narrative) form y separately published work icon The Pressures of Late Capitalism Mark Samual Bonanno , Naomi Higgins , Humyara Mahbub , ( dir. Adam Murfet et. al. )agent Australia : CKOL , 2021 23334282 2021 single work film/TV

Year: 2020

winner (Situation or Narrative) form y separately published work icon Rosehaven [Episode 4.5] Luke McGregor , Celia Pacquola , ( dir. Shaun Wilson ) Australia : Guesswork Television , 2020 20273732 2020 single work film/TV

Year: 2019

winner (Situation or Narrative) form y separately published work icon Day Eight Tim Minchin , ( dir. Tim Minchin et. al. )agent Australia : Lingo Pictures , 2019 16969259 2019 single work film/TV
winner (Sketch or Light Entertainment) form y separately published work icon Orange Is the New Brown Nazeem Hussain , Joel Slack-Smith , Sophie Braham , Richard Thorp , Penny Greenhalgh , Heidi Regan , ( dir. Hayden Guppy ) Australia : Screentime Seven Network , 2018 13357828 2018 series - publisher film/TV humour

'[A] six-part series that will reflect contemporary Australian life using one-off sketches, original and recurring characters and TV parodies.'

Source: Screen Australia.

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