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. 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.
The category was reinstated as the Most Comedy Program in 1993 until 1999. In 2000, the categories were again combined as the Most Popular Comedy/Light Entertainment Program award. From 2018, the award category name was restored as Most Popular Comedy Program.
The winner and nominees of this category are chosen by the public through an online voting survey on the TV Week website. 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 NetworkRef 1977 The Paul Hogan Show 1978 Blankety Blanks 1979 The Paul Hogan Show 1980 The Don Lane Show 1981 The Mike Walsh Show 1982 Kingswood Country 1983 Kingswood Country 1984 The Paul Hogan Show 1985 Hey Hey It's Saturday 1989 The Comedy Company 1990 The Comedy Company 1991 Fast Forward 1992 Fast Forward 1993 Fast Forward 1994 The Late Show 1995 Full Frontal 1996 Full Frontal 1997 Full Frontal 1998 Full Frontal 1999 Hey Hey It's Saturday Good News Week The Panel Totally Full Frontal
From 2000 to 2017, comedy nominees were included in the Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program category.
Year Program NetworkRef 2018 Have You Been Paying Attention? Here Come The Habibs Hughesy, We Have a Problem Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell True Story with Hamish & Andy 2019 Have You Been Paying Attention? Hughesy, We Have a Problem Rosehaven Russell Coight's All Aussie Adventures Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell True Story with Hamish & Andy 2022 Have You Been Paying Attention? Aftertaste Fisk Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell The Hundred with Andy Lee The Cheap Seats 2023 Have You Been Paying Attention? Fisk Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell The Front Bar The Hundred with Andy Lee Wellmania
Multiple wins Number Program Wins Full Frontal Have You Been Paying Attention? The Paul Hogan Show Fast Forward Hey Hey It's Saturday Kingswood Country The Comedy Company
See also Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program
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