The Logie for Most Popular Comedy Program is an award presented annually at the Australian
TV Week
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Logie Awards
The Logie Awards (officially the TV Week Logie Awards; colloquially known as The Logies) is an annual gathering to celebrate Australian television, sponsored and organised by the magazine ''TV Week''. The first ceremony was held in 1959 as the ...
. It recognises the popularity of an Australian comedy program, which over the years have included scripted comedy series, sketch comedy, variety comedy shows and panel comedy shows.
It was first awarded at the
19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards, held in 1977 when the award was originally called Most Popular Australian Comedy. Over the years, it has been known as Most Popular Variety/Panel Comedy Show (1978), Most Popular Comedy Show (1979, 1981, 1983), Most Popular Variety/Comedy Show (1980), Most Popular Comedy Series (1982), Most Popular Comedy Series (1985).
The award was discontinued in 1986 when nominees were included in the
Most Popular Australian Light Entertainment Program category. From 1989 to 1992, that award was known as the Most Popular Light Entertainment Program/Comedy award.
The category was reinstated as the Most Comedy Program in 1993 until 1999. In 2000, the categories were again combined as the
Most Popular Comedy/Light Entertainment Program award. From 2018, the award category name was restored as Most Popular Comedy Program.
The winner and nominees of this category are chosen by the public through an online voting survey on the ''TV Week'' website.
''
Full Frontal'' holds the record for the most wins, with four, followed by ''
The Paul Hogan Show
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Fast Forward
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'' with three each.
Winners and nominees
From 2000 to 2017, comedy nominees were included in the
Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program category.
Multiple wins
See also
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Logie Award for Most Popular Entertainment Program
References
External links
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{{Logie Awards years
Awards established in 1977
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