Through the Years

Television / Light Entertainment Performance

Recent Winners

1965
Winner

  • Peter Cook
  • Dudley Moore

Not Only But Also… (And Script)
Light Entertainment Performance
1967
Winner

Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett
Light Entertainment Performance
1999
Winner

Michael Parkinson

Parkinson
Light Entertainment Performance
1998
Winner

Paul Whitehouse

The Fast Show
Light Entertainment Performance
1997
Winner

  • John Bird
  • John Fortune

Rory Bremner…Who Else?/The Long Johns
Light Entertainment Performance
1996
Winner

Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner… Who Else?
Light Entertainment Performance
1995
Winner

Rory Bremner

Rory Bremner... Who Else?
Light Entertainment Performance
1994
Winner

Richard Wilson

One Foot In The Grave/One Foot In The Algarve
Light Entertainment Performance

Through The Years

  • Winner

    Michael Parkinson

    Parkinson
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    • John Bird
    • John Fortune

    Rory Bremner… Who Else?
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Kathy Burke

    Harry Enfield's Yule Log Chums
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Billy Connolly

    30 Years Of Billy Connolly
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Paul Whitehouse

    The Fast Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Harry Enfield

    Harry Enfield And Chums
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Merton

    Have I Got News For You
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Kathy Burke

    Harry Enfield And Chums
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • John Bird
    • John Fortune

    Rory Bremner…Who Else?/The Long Johns
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Merton

    Have I Got News For You
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Caroline Aherne

    The Mrs Merton Christmas Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rory Bremner

    Rory Bremner…Who Else?
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Rory Bremner

    Rory Bremner… Who Else?
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Caroline Aherne

    The Mrs Merton Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Merton

    Have I Got News For You
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Peter Ustinov

    An Evening With Sir Peter Ustinov
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Rory Bremner

    Rory Bremner... Who Else?
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Michael Barrymore

    Barrymore
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Steve Coogan

    Knowing Me, Knowing You… With Alan Partridge
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Victoria Wood

    Victoria Wood: Live In Your Own Home
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Richard Wilson

    One Foot In The Grave/One Foot In The Algarve
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rowan Atkinson

    Mr Bean
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rory Bremner

    Rory Bremner… Who Else?
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Annette Crosbie

    One Foot In The Grave/One Foot In The Algarve
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Merton

    Have I Got News For You/The Downing Street Years
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Joanna Lumley

    Absolutely Fabulous
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Patricia Routledge

    Keeping Up Appearances
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Jennifer Saunders

    Absolutely Fabulous
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Richard Wilson

    One Foot In The Grave
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Richard Wilson

    One Foot In The Grave
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rowan Atkinson

    The Curse Of Mr Bean
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Haydn Gwynne

    Drop The Dead Donkey
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Patricia Routledge

    Keeping Up Appearances
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    David Jason

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rowan Atkinson

    The Return Of Mr Bean
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Dawn French

    French And Saunders
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Nicholas Lyndhurst

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Rowan Atkinson

    Blackadder Goes Forth
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Barry Humphries

    The Dame Edna Experience
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    David Jason

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Victoria Wood

    Victoria Wood
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Victoria Wood

    An Audience With Victoria Wood
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Dawn French

    French And Saunders
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Barry Humphries

    One More Audience With Dame Edna
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    David Jason

    Only Fools And Horses Christmas Special
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Nigel Hawthorne

    Yes, Prime Minister
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rowan Atkinson

    Blackadder The Third
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Eddington

    Yes, Prime Minister
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Barry Humphries

    The Dame Edna Experience
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Nigel Hawthorne

    Yes, Prime Minister
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Eddington

    Yes, Prime Minister
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    David Jason

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Nicholas Lyndhurst

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Julie Walters

    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Victoria Wood

    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Victoria Wood

    Victoria Wood As Seen On TV
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Barker

    Open All Hours
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Barker

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    David Jason

    Only Fools And Horses
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Gorden Kaye

    Allo 'Allo
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Judi Dench

    A Fine Romance
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Lenny Henry

    The Lenny Henry Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Julia McKenzie

    Fresh Fields
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ruth Madoc

    Hi-De-Hi!
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Nicholas

    Just Good Friends
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Tracey Ullman

    Three Of A Kind
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    • Ronnie Barker
    • Ronnie Corbett

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Jasper Carrott

    Carrott's Lib
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Judi Dench

    A Fine Romance
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Nigel Hawthorne

    Yes, Minister
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Judi Dench

    A Fine Romance
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Eddington

    Yes, Minister/Let There Be Love
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Rowan Atkinson

    Not The Nine O'Clock News
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Nigel Hawthorne

    Yes, Minster
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Stanley Baxter

    The Stanley Baxter Series
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Paul Eddington

    Yes, Minster
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Dave Allen

    The Dave Allen Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Rowan Atkinson

    Not The Nine O'Clock News
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Barry Humphries

    An Audience With Dame Edna Everage
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Maureen Lipman

    Agony
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Pamela Stephenson

    Not The Nine O'Clock News
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    John Cleese

    Fawlty Towers
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Barker

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Penelope Keith

    To The Manor Born
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Andrew Sachs

    Fawlty Towers
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Ronnie Barker

    Going Straight/The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Leonard Rossiter

    The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin/The Losers/Rising Damp
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Donald Sinden

    Two's Company
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Elaine Stritch

    Two's Company/Song By Song
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Ronnie Barker

    The Two Ronnies/Porridge
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Leonard Rossiter

    Rising Damp/The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Penelope Keith

    The Good Life/The Morecambe And Wise Christmas Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Arthur Lowe

    Dad's Army
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Penelope Keith

    The Good Life
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Leonard Rossiter

    The Fall And Rise Of Reginald Perrin
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Barker

    Open All Hours/The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Richard Briers

    The Good Life/One-Upmanship
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Ronnie Barker

    Porridge
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    • Ronnie Barker
    • Ronnie Corbett

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Stanley Baxter

    The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show Part III
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    John Cleese

    Fawlty Towers
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Stanley Baxter

    The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Michael Crawford

    Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Arthur Lowe

    Dad's Army
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Barker

    Porridge
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • Eric Morecambe
    • Ernie Wise

    The Morecambe And Wise Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Dave Allen

    Dave Allen At Large
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    • Ronnie Barker
    • Ronnie Corbett

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Stanley Baxter

    The Stanley Baxter Big Picture Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • Eric Morecambe
    • Ernie Wise

    The Morecambe And Wise Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Arthur Lowe

    Dad's Army
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    The Monty Python Team

    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • Ronnie Corbett
    • Ronnie Barker

    The Two Ronnies
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Dick Emery

    The Dick Emery Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Benny Hill

    The Benny Hill Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • Eric Morecambe
    • Ernie Wise

    The Morecambe And Wise Show
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    John Cleese

    Monty Python's Flying Circus
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Ronnie Corbett

    Frost Show/No That's Me Over Here
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Frankie Howerd

    Up Pompeii!
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Arthur Lowe

    Dad’s Army
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    Alan Bennett

    Alan Bennett
    Light Entertainment Performance
  • Winner

    • Peter Cook
    • Dudley Moore

    Not Only But Also… (And Script)
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    John Bird

    Not So Much a Programme...
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Charlie Drake

    The Worker
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Benny Hill

    The Benny Hill Show (And script)
    Light Entertainment Performance
    Nominee

    Terry Scott

    Scott on Birds/Scott on Money/Scott on Food/Hugh and I/Christmas Night With the Stars/Guest: Billy Cotton Band Show/[one other]
    Light Entertainment Performance