Comedy
Inside No.9, Bob Mortimer and Flo & Joan scoop two each at 2025 Chortle Awards
Chris McCausland, Emma Sidi & Michael Odewale also got their flowers
Last night (Monday 17 March) the winners of the 2025 Chortle Awards, which celebrate the best of UK comedy, were announced at a ceremony in London. It was a night for the duos, with Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton taking home Best TV Show for Inside No.9 (for the fourth time), as well as the Outstanding Achievement award.
Likewise, musical comedy pair Flo & Joan won the Sketch & Variety award as well as Best Show for One Man Musical, a recent hit at the Soho Underbelly Boulevard Theatre starring George Fouracres as a certain West End Musical impresario, which earnt reviews such as “an instant classic” (Broadway World) and “a sensation” (The Guardian).
Though he couldn’t be at the ceremony to pick up the award because he was “trapped under a bottle of screen wash,” national treasure Bob Mortimer also bagged a brace with Best TV Comic and the Book Award for his 2024 crime comedy The Hotel Avocado. Mortimer may have beaten Chris McCausland for the former prize, but the comic had further flowers as his Strictly winning performance won Event Of The Year.
There were also touching tributes to those no longer with us: Bill Dare, the BBC radio producer who passed earlier this month, was given then Offstage Contribution award; while the late Janey Godley was honoured for her show about cancer, The C Bomb, with Best Radio Comedy.
Find the full list of winners and nominees below.
Outstanding Achievement
Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton
Offstage Contribution
Bill Dare
Event Of The Year
Chris McCausland on Strictly Come Dancing
Best Newcomer
Jin Hao Li
Abby Wambaugh, Catriona Dowden, Metroland, Sharon Wanjohi
Breakthrough Act
Emma Sidi
Demi Adejuyigbe, Joe Kent-Walters, Rob Copland
Best Headliner
Michael Odewale
Leroy Brito, Lindsey Santoro, Mike Rice, Nina Gilligan
Sketch & Variety Award
Flo and Joan
Elf Lyons, Metroland, Natalie Palamides, Tarot
Best show
One-Man Musical by Flo and Joan
Adam Riches and John Kearns ARE ‘Ball & Boe’; Demi Adejuyigbe Is Going To Do One (1) Backflip; Ed Night: The Plunge; Natalie Palamides: WEER; Rob Copland: Gimme (One With Everything)
Best Compere
Phil Ellis
Hayley Ellis, Robin Morgan, Rosco McClelland
Best Tour
Sam Campbell: Wobservations
Kiri Pritchard-McLean: Peacock; Miles Jupp: On I Bang; Nish Kumar: Nish, Don’t Kill My Vibe; Sarah Keyworth: My Eyes Are Up Here
Best TV Show
Inside No. 9
Alma’s Not Normal; Everyone Else Burns; Things You Should Have Done ; We Are Lady Parts
Best TV Comic
Bob Mortimer
Chris McCausland, Jamali Maddix, Rosie Jones, Sophie Willan
Best Radio Comedy
Janey Godley: The C Bomb
Ian Smith Is Stressed; Icklewick FM; The Many Wrongs Of Lord Christian Brighty; Time Of The Week
Best Podcast
Here Comes The Guillotine
Brainwash Me with Poppy Hillstead; Glue Factory with Milo Edwards, Olga Koch, Pierre Novellie and Riley; Single Ladies In Your Area with Amy Gledhill and Harriet Kemsley; Trusty Hogs with Catherine Bohart and Helen Bauer
Social Media Award
Munya Chawawa
Derek Mitchell; Ed Night and Paddy Young; Tom Lawrinson and Sam O’Leary; Sarah Roberts
Book Award
The Hotel Avocado by Bob Mortimer
Dip My Brain in Joy: A Life With Neil Innes by Yvonne Innes; Jokes Jokes Jokes by Jenny Eclair; Why Can’t I Just Enjoy Things? by Pierre Novellie
