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Series Modern Family and 30 Rock, features Bridesmaids and Crazy, Stupid, Love and Louis C.K. landed the most nominations, five each, at the 2nd annual Comedy Awards. Modern Family, which won best comedy series last year, is back in contention in the top TV category along with 30 Rock, Curb Your Enthusiasm (4 total nominations), Parks and Recreation (3) and surprise nominee Happy Endings. Louis C.K.’s five nominations include 3 for his FX series Louie (best performance by an actor in a comedy series, best sketch/alternative comedy series, best comedy writing) one for his special Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater and one for best stand-up tour. (Louie got a total of 4 noms, including best directing.) On the film side, Bridesmaids and Crazy, Stupid, Love. will suare off in the best film category against Midnight in Paris and Horrible Bosses (4 total nominations each) and the Oscar-winning The Artist (3). This year’s Comedy Awards will be held on April 28 at New York City’s Hammerstein Ballroom and will air on Comedy Central on May 6. Don Mischer is producing for a second straight year. Nominees were selected by the The Comedy Awards Board of Directors, which include Carol Burnett, James Burrows, Greg Cavic, Stephen Colbert, James Dixon, Budd Friedman, Jim Gosnell, Rick Greenstein, Brad Grey, Caroline Hirsch, Sharon Jackson, Blair Kohan, Martin Lesak, Steve Levine, Jamie Masada, Adam McKay, Jimmy Miller, Conan O’Brien, Peter Principato, Joan Rivers, Jay Roach, Chris Rock, Ray Romano, Rory Rosegarten, Michael Rotenberg, George Schlatter, Mitzi Shore, David Steinberg, Jon Stewart, Lily Tomlin, Sandy Wernick and Geof Wills. Here is list of the nominations by category:
THE COMEDY AWARDS 2012 NOMINATIONS
COMEDY FILM
“The Artist”
“Bridesmaids”
“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
“Horrible Bosses”
“Midnight in Paris”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR—FILM
Jason Bateman, “Horrible Bosses”
Steve Carell, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
Jean Dujardin, “The Artist”
Zach Galifianakis, “The Hangover Part II”
Owen Wilson, “Midnight in Paris”
COMEDY DIRECTOR—FILM
Woody Allen, “Midnight in Paris”
James Bobin, “The Muppets”
Paul Feig, “Bridesmaids”
Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
Michel Hazanavicius, “The Artist”
COMEDY SERIES
“30 Rock”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“Happy Endings”
“Modern Family”
“Parks and Recreation”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR—TV
Alec Baldwin, “30 Rock”
Ty Burrell, “Modern Family”
Louis C.K., “Louie”
Steve Carell, “The Office”
Larry David, “Curb Your Enthusiasm”
COMEDY DIRECTING—TV
“30 Rock”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“Louie”
“Modern Family”
“The Office”
ANIMATED COMEDY FILM
“Cars 2”
“Kung Fu Panda 2”
“Puss In Boots”
“Rango”
“Rio”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS—FILM
Jennifer Aniston, “Horrible Bosses”
Cameron Diaz, “Bad Teacher”
Melissa McCarthy, “Bridesmaids”
Emma Stone, “Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
Kristen Wiig, “Bridesmaids”
COMEDY SCREENPLAY
“50/50”
“Bridesmaids”
“Crazy, Stupid, Love.”
“Horrible Bosses”
“Midnight in Paris”
ANIMATED COMEDY SERIES
“Archer”
“Family Guy”
“The Life & Times of Tim”
“The Simpsons”
“South Park”
PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS—TV
Zooey Deschanel, “New Girl”
Tina Fey, “30 Rock”
Amy Poehler, “Parks and Recreation”
Kristen Wiig, “Saturday Night Live”
Sofia Vergara, “Modern Family”
COMEDY WRITING—TV
“30 Rock”
“Curb Your Enthusiasm”
“Louie”
“Modern Family”
“Parks and Recreation”
“Saturday Night Live”
LATE NIGHT COMEDY SERIES
“The Colbert Report”
“The Daily Show with Jon Stewart”
“Late Night with Jimmy Fallon”
“Late Show with David Letterman”
“Real Time with Bill Maher”
BREAKOUT PERFORMER OF THE YEAR
Zooey Deschanel
Josh Gad
Donald Glover
Melissa McCarthy
Jason Sudeikis
CLUB COMIC
Ted Alexandro
Hannibal Buress
Pete Holmes
Anthony Jeselnik
Moshe Kasher
John Mulaney
Kumail Nanjiani
Chelsea Peretti
Amy Schumer
Rory Scovel
SKETCH / ALTERNATIVE COMEDY SERIES
“Childrens Hospital”
“Louie”
“Portlandia”
“Saturday Night Live”
“Tosh.0”
COMEDY SPECIAL OF THE YEAR
“Louis C.K.: Live at the Beacon Theater”
“Norm Macdonald: Me Doing Standup”
“Patton Oswalt Finest Hour”
“Colin Quinn Long Story Short”
“Daniel Tosh: Happy Thoughts”
STAND-UP TOUR
Dave Attell
Lewis Black
Louis C.K.
Kevin Hart
Jerry Seinfeld
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Happy Endings is fantastic! A deserved nomination.
+1 on Happy Endings. Really gets better week after week and season 2 has been great.
How do you determine best comedy tour? Do you have to go every night?
Also, comedy directing is a bad category because each episode has a different director.
According to their website, they present the award to every director of the show during the season, which is pretty cool.
Very strange. This is just an award show created by management for their clients. 3 arts, principato young. Look who’s on the board. Rotenberg and Principato and rosegarten, etc. c’mon…
Yes, SO glad that dreck The New Girl wasn’t nominated for series or writing. Seriously, though, you would think of all places, this is where Community would finally get some love. At least Donald Glover got something.
The lack of Community nominations in the TV category takes away whatever credit this may have had.
Happy Endings deserves it. I would have put Louie over Curb, but these are all solid nods.
THE ARTIST? I don’t really think of that as a comedy, especially when compared to Bridesmaids and Horrible Bosses.. other than when the dog is on screen.I know it was in that category for the Globes, but, well, it’s the Globes.
Still scratching my head over the critical acclaim & awards piled on this movie; i appreciated it on many levels, including the inventive conceit of shooting a story about the silent film-to-talkie era in b&w and silent, but the story is ordinary and derivative (Singin’in the Rain did it better– backwards and in heels)Anyway, I’m apparently in the minority on this one.
Ugh. Terrible year for comedy. Modern Family had an off year, Parks and Rec isn’t funny, Bridesmaids was more popular for what it represented rather than actually being truly hysterical, Hangover 2 was a dud, CSL a top comedy? Wow. There was just very little this year that, hype aside, was actually laugh out loud funny.
You lost all credibility when you said “Parks and Rec isn’t funny.”
THE LIFE & TIMES OF TIM…….about time this show starts getting recognized!Yeaaaaaaaaah Buddddyy!
It’s awesome that The Life and Times of Tim is nominated, I really can’t think of a show more fitting of a comedy award.
yay Happy Endings! Some deserved love!
Horrible bosses nominations are well deserved and shoul win but come on no Charlie day? The artist had better not take this too. It’s a joke that it won the oscar
“The Artist” for Best Comedy Film? Well, it was pretty laughable. It’s the only film where they turn a possible suicide attempt into a light-hearted jab at bad women drivers. BANG!
The lack of Community is highly disturbing.