2025 Year in Comedy Awards: The Winners
Best of Everything in Comedy 2025 as Chosen by You
You’ve been voting for the last two weeks for the best of everything in comedy, and now its time to tell you all the big winners! It’s been an exciting year with over 15,000 votes from 58 nations voting in our comedy categories including Stand Up Comedian of the Year, Best Independent Hour Stand Up Special, Best Studio Hour Stand Up Special, Best Book Written by a Comedian, Best Comedy Movie, Best Comedy TV Show or Series, Best Comedy Documentary and Heir to the Throne
Read the results from 2024, the results from 2023, results from 2022, results from 2021 results from 2020, results from 2019, the results from 2018 as well as from 2017, from 2016, our 2015 and 2014 awards posts here.
In the category of BEST COMEDY TELEVISION SERIES, this year’s most voted show was TIRES, Season 2, which aired on Netflix. Created initially as a webseries and picked up by Netflix, everyone’s excited for the already greenlit third season. See all the nominees here.
Best Series Winner 2024: Tires Season 1
Best Series Winner 2023: Righteous Gemstones
Best Series Winner 2022: flatbush misdemeanors
Best Series Winner 2021: The Ms. Pat Show
Best Series Winner 2020: Schitt’s Creek
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 the king of the comedy movie- with the longest run of our lifetimes- Adam Sandler’s Happy Gilmore 2. See all the nominees here.
Best Movie Winner 2024: Lets Start a Cult
Best Movie Winner 2023: Tapawing
Best Movie Winner 2022: Fourth of July
Best Movie Winner 2021: Coming 2 America
Best Movie Winner 2020: Borat 2
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 big win for LOUIS C.K. who not only wrote a book- he wrote a novel. And its not just a novel, its a literary novel and a New York Times Bestseller. See all the nominees here
Best Book Winner 2024: Mike Rainey, Delco Dirtball.
Best Book Winner 2023: Joey Coco Diaz: Tremendous
Best Book Winner 2022: Tom Segura: I’d Like to Play Alone Please
Best Book Winner 2021: Tom Scharpling: It Never Ends, A Memoir With Nice Memories
Best Book Winner 2020: Colin Quinn: Overstated A Coast to Coast Roast of the 50 States
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: Colin Quinn: The Coloring Book
Best Book Winner 2014: Joan Rivers: Diary of a Mad Diva
In the stand-up categories, BEST INDEPENDENT HOUR STAND UP SPECIAL goes to BIG JAY OAKERSON for his double crowd work special, THEY/THEM Read all the nominees here.
Best INDEPENDENT Hour Special Winner 2024: Sal Vulcano: Terrified
Best Album Winner 2023: Bob the Drag Queen: Woke Man in a Dress
Best Album Winner 2022: Jen Kirkman: Ok Gen-X
Best Album Winner 2021: James Mattern “The Check Spot”
Best Album Winner 2020: Bonnie McFarlane “Bird Calls”
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: Rich Vos ‘V’
Best Album Winner 2015: Jay Mohr ‘Happy and a Lot’
Best Album Winner 2014: Big Jay Oakerson: The Crowdwork Series
The BEST STUDIO HOUR COMEDY SPECIAL award goes to ARI SHAFFIR, America’s Sweetheart Read all the nominees here.
Best Special Winner 2024: TIE: Keith Robinson, Different Strokes & Dave Attell Hot Cross Buns
Best Special Winner 2023: Kathleen Madigan, Hunting Bigfoot
Best Special Winner 2022: Chris Distefano Speshy Weshy
Best Special Winner 2021: Shane Gillis Live in Austin
Best Special Winner 2020: Mark Normand: Out to Lunch
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: Barry Crimmins: Whatever Frightens You
Best Special Winner 2015: Jim Norton: Contextually Inadequate
Best Special Winner 2014: Jim Jefferies: Bare
The coveted STAND UP COMEDIAN OF THE YEAR goes to BIG JAY OAKERSON. He is crushing comedy with his new special, and as cohost of SiriusXM’s The Bonfire plus he’s 1/3 of the Legion OF Skanks. Read all ten of our amazing Comedian of the Year nominees here.
Stand up Comedian of the Year 2024: Zarna Garg
Stand up Comedian of the Year 2023: Bert Kreischer
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2022: Chris Distefano
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2021: Nate Bargatze
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2020: Colin Quinn
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: Nate Bargatze
Stand Up Comedian of the Year 2014: Bill Burr
