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Everything you ever wanted to know about the Awards but were afraid to ask.  You needn’t worry – we won’t bite…
 
12 Things
 
1 The British Comedy Awards is officially the UK’s best-loved and most-watched awards ceremony (although Norman Lamont begs to differ). It regularly attracts of audiences of around ten million, and features the most swearing, debauchery and drunkenness of any award show since ‘The Pride of Britain Awards’
 
2 The show itself lasts just 90 minutes (although celebrations regularly run to 4 days).
 
3 The British Comedy Awards are coming of age – yes, hard to believe, the event is in it’s eighteenth year . This is Jonathan’s seventeenth year ‘in charge’ of the ordered chaos. Brave or plain mad, we’re not sure, but Jonathan says he loves it.
 
4 The British Comedy Awards prides itself on featuring some of the worlds biggest stars – previous shows have included appearances by Madonna, Sacha Baron Cohen, Paul Bettany, Jack Black, Elton John, Steve Martin, Hugh Grant, Samuel L. Jackson, Dame Edna Everage and Robbie Williams. Plus, there have been surprise visits by famous faces including Tony Blair, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Mo Mowlam and Professor Stephen Hawkins, and some of the world’s smallest stars – Ronnie Corbett to name one.
 
 
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5 The British Comedy Awards comes from an exclusive ‘art gallery’ featuring specially commissioned portraits of modern comedy stars in classic poses
 
6 One of the most prestigious awards of the night is The Outstanding Contribution to Comedy Award. Past recipients have included the Two Ronnies, Barry Humphries, Spike Milligan, Peter Cook & Dudley Moore, David Jason, Dawn French & Jennifer Saunders, Julie Walters & Victoria Wood, Jim Davidson (only joking), Alan Bennett and Michael Palin.
 
7 The British Comedy Awards Jury is comprised of distinguished representatives from the five terrestrial broadcasters, plus a select few writers and performers.
 
8 Forget the BAFTA’s, the Oscars, the Soap Awards. And all the other pretenders to the throne. The British Comedy Awards is king of the awards ceremony.
 
9 A recent poll found that The British Comedy Awards is 28% funnier than any other UK award ceremony. Although when the Brit Awards were hosted by Samantha Fox and Mick Fleetwood it was considered the biggest joke.
 
10 The most swear words ever recorded at The British Comedy awards were 487 during the 1995 show. Kathy Burke was responsible for the vast majority of these with Johnny Vegas coming a close second.
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