2020 Comedy Awards! Here Are Your Winners (As Voted For By You!) For the Seventh Annual Comedy Awards

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Best of Everything in Comedy 2020 as Chosen by You

It’s time to close out this year’s Best of Everything in Comedy Awards by announcing your choices for the best comedy of 2020. At the end of a year where live performance was virtually nonexistent, there was still a tremendous amount of great comedy to celebrate. We had a difficult time choosing our top ten lists, and you had the difficult task of choosing the winners of our 2020 Readers Poll, the only place on the internet or IRL where you get to decide who is the best of the best: The Best of Everything in Comedy 2020

Thousands voted this year in 6 comedy categories including Stand Up Comedian of the Year, Best Album, Best Hour Special, Best Book Written by a Comedian, Best Comedy Movie, Best Comedy TV Show or Series. You also voted on Best Viral Video, and Biggest Scandal in 2020. Also don’t miss our picks for 12 Innovators Who Changed Comedy in 2020  and our Award for Remarkable Achievement of Exceptional Noteworthiness in Unrelated Categories,  even though we didn’t put those to a vote. You can see all our year-end lists– all 17 of them- right here.   Now onto the winners!

Scroll down below the graphic to see this year’s winners and past winners in a straight list.

Or read the results from 2019, the results from 2018 as well as from 2017, from 2016,  our 2015 and 2014 awards posts here.

First the videos. Your pick for the BEST VIRAL VIDEO of 2020 goes to Skateboarding Dog, listening to Fleetwood Mac.  He captured your hearts and your views.   You overwhelmingly chose  CHRIS D’ELIA being accused of sexual misconduct as the #1 Scandal of the year overturning our pick of Ari Shaffir’s Kobe scandal.

In the category of BEST COMEDY SERIES, it was a close race, with Pop TV  taking this year’s award for SCHITT’S CREEK. After winning everything else this year, it makes sense that this beloved television show should take home The Interrobang. Showtime’s Moonbase 8 was close behind but couldn’t catch Schitt’s Creek’s wake. See all the nominees here.

Best Series Winner 2019: TIE: The Righteous Gemstones
Best Series Winner 2018: TIE: Crashing, Barry
Best Series Winner 2017: Better Things
Best Series Winner 2016: Baskets
Best Series Winner 2015: The Jim Gaffigan Show
Best Series Winner 2014: Last Week Tonight

BEST COMEDY MOVIE went to a sequel, for the first time ever.  BORAT SUBSEQUENT MOVIEFILM stole the title, giving Sacha Baron Cohen and his co-star Maria Bakalova the honor and a permanent home in The Interrobang Comedy Movie Hall of Fame. See all the nominees here.

Best Movie Winner 2019: My Name is Dolemite
Best Movie Winner 2018: Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Best Movie Winner 2017: Gilbert
Best Movie Winner 2016: Deadpool
Best Movie Winner 2015: Trainwreck
Best Movie Winner 2014: Grand Budapest Hotel

 

The BEST COMEDY BOOK category was a runaway smooth sailing easy win for COLIN QUINN and OVERSTATED: A COAST TO COAST ROAST OF THE 50 STATES. This is Quinn’s second time taking home this award. His last book, The Coloring Book took the honors in 2015. See all the nominees here. 

Best Book Winner 2019: Judd Apatow: It’s Garry Shandling’s Book
Best Book Winner 2018: Jim Florentine: Everybody is Awful (Except You)
Best Book Winner 2017: Doug Stanhope: This is Not Fame
Best Book Winner 2016: Doug Stanhope: Digging Up Mother
Best Book Winner 2015: : The Coloring Book
Best Book Winner 2014: : Diary of a Mad Diva

 

In the stand-up categories, BEST COMEDY ALBUM had so many phenomenal albums and we stand behind all eleven nominees as outstanding performances.   Album of the year is always a close fight, and this year was no exception, but ultimately  you chose BONNIE MCFARLANE as your winner for her tremendous comedy album, BIRD CALLS, in which she skillfully skewers last year’s winner, Rich Vos, among other things.  Honorable mention to Mike Cannon who put up a good fight and threatened mayhem if he didn’t win. Read all the nominees here.

Best Album Winner 2019: Rich Vos ‘When I Saw Hamilton’
Best Album Winner 2018: Adam Ferrara ‘Unconditional’
Best Album Winner 2017: Joe DeRosa ‘You Let Me Down’
Best Album Winner 2016:  ‘V’
Best Album Winner 2015:  ‘Happy and a Lot’
Best Album Winner 2014: Big : The Crowdwork Series

We never expected this year to have so many amazing specials to choose from, but it was a strong year for recorded comedy. We chose ten exceptional hours, and one took an early lead and stayed out front throughout the voting.  The BEST COMEDY SPECIAL  award goes to MARK NORMAND for his killer hour, which he self produced and put out on YouTube, OUT TO LUNCH. It’s Normand’s second special, and we think it’s his best so far with much more to come. After being named Jerry Seinfeld’s favorite young up and coming comedian, you had better produce something great, and Normand did just that. Read all the nominees here.

Best Special Winner 2019: Dan Soder: Son of a Gary
Best Special Winner 2018: Gad Elmaleh: American Dream
Best Special Winner 2017: Judah Friedlander: America is the Best Country in the United States
Best Special Winner 2016: : Whatever Frightens You
Best Special Winner 2015: : Contextually Inadequate
Best Special Winner 2014: : Bare

Finally, the coveted STAND UP COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR goes to COLIN QUINN who had a tremendous year in a year that was incredibly difficult to be tremendous in.  Colin is a triple award winner this year.  In our audience vote categories Quinn not only won comedian of the year, but also the Award for the Best Comedy Book.  And we gave CQ an award for one of the top 12 innovators of the year for his crazy amazing special, Colin Quinn & Friends; A Parking Lot  Comedy Show.  Quinn is a genius and we’re thrilled to welcome him to our Comedy Hall of Fame.

Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2019: Shane Gillis
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2018: Bert Kreischer
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2017: Judah Friedlander
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2016: Jim Jefferies
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2015: 
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2014: 

 

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