BAFTA nominations have been announced and it wouldn’t be an awards shortlist without some Mitchell & Webb activity:

Male Performance in a Comedy Role
Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners (E4)

Peter Capaldi – The Thick Of It (BBC Two)

Hugh Dennis – Outnumbered Christmas Special (BBC One)

David Mitchell – Peep Show (Channel 4)

Comedy Programme
The Armstrong and Miller Show
Alexander Armstrong, Ben Miller, Caroline Norris, Dominic Brigstocke
BBC One/Toff Media

The Kevin Bishop Show
Lee Hupfield, Kevin Bishop, Dominic Brigstocke, Sam Martin
Channel 4/Objective Productions

Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle
Stewart Lee, Tim Kirkby, Richard Webb
BBC Two/BBC Productions

That Mitchell and Webb Look
David Mitchell, Robert Webb, Ben Gosling Fuller, Gareth Edwards
BBC Two/BBC Productions

Situation Comedy
The Inbetweeners
Damon Beesely, Iain Morris, Ben Palmer, Christopher Young
E4/Bwark Productions

Miranda
Jo Sargent, Nerys Evans, Juliet May, Miranda Hart
BBC Two/BBC Productions

Peep Show
Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Phil Clarke, Becky Martin
Channel 4/Objective Productions

The Thick of It
Armando Iannucci, Adam Tandy
BBC Two/BBC Productions

Hmmm… some tough choices to be made there.

The British Comedy Guide website had some reader awards and guess what? The people we like proved to be very very popular…

Peep Show, That Mitchell & Webb Look, That Mitchell & Webb Sound, Sorry I’ve Got No Head and Bleak Expectations all ‘received’ virtual gongs. More specific info can be found at their very good site, along with episode guides and pretty things.

It’s that time again and there are some interesting Comedy Awards nominations:

Best Sketch Show
The Kevin Bishop Show
That Mitchell and Webb Look
Harry & Paul (Series 2)
This should be straightforward enough in my opinion…

Best Sitcom
Peep Show
The IT Crowd
Outnumbered: Series 2

Best Television Comedy Actor
Rob Brydon – Gavin and Stacey Christmas Special
Simon Bird – The Inbetweeners
Robert Webb – Peep Show
Damnit, I think Simon Bird is very good in The Inbetweeners but I also like Rob as Jeremy in Peeep Show but which is best?

Michael McIntyre also got nominated for a load of awards for some reason and in a slightly madder revelation the powers that be decided that Charlie Brooker is a newcomer.

Meanwhile, at the BAFTA telly awards…

Best comedy performance
David Mitchell – Peep Show (Channel 4)

Oh good.

BAFTA TV nominations have been announced:

COMEDY PERFORMANCE
Rob Brydon Gavin & Stacey BBC Three
Sharon Horgan Pulling BBC Three
David Mitchell Peep Show C4
Claire Skinner Outnumbered BBC One

SITUATION COMEDY
The Inbetweeners Production Team C4/BWark Productions
The IT Crowd Graham Linehan, Richard Boden, Ash AtallaC4/Talkback Productions
Outnumbered Andy Hamilton, Guy Jenkin BBC One/Hat Trick Productions
Peep Show Sam Bain, Jesse Armstrong, Becky Martin, Izzy MantC4/Objective Productions

Would it be disloyal to say that I think The Inbetweeners really deserves that award?

COMEDY PROGRAMME
Harry and Paul Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse, Sandy Johnson, Geoffrey Perkins BBC One/Tiger Aspect Productions
The Peter Serafinowicz Show Peter Serafinowicz, James Serafiniwicz, Ben Farrell, Becky Martin BBC Two/Objective Productions
Star Stories Lee Hupfield, Ben Palmer, Michael Livingstone, Phil ClarkeC4/Objective Productions
That Mitchell and Webb Look Gareth Edwards, David Kerr, David Mitchell, Robert Webb BBC Two/BBC Productions

Hmmm… I like That Mitchell & Webb Look but I also like The Peter Serafinowicz Show…

Item! A certain someone is treading the boards in London soon…

Trafalgar Studios is situated on the south side of Trafalgar Square at 14 Whitehall, London SW1A 2DY… according to the internet. Fat Pig stars that man from Peep Show, that man from My Family, that woman from Gavin and Stacey and that woman from Cape Wrath.

Item! That Mitchell And Webb Sound has been nominated for a Sony Radio Award.

Hurrah! Peep Show has just won Best TV Comedy award (presented by Faye Dunaway) and David won best comedy actor award (presented by Twiggy and Gok Wan. Yikes!) at the British Comedy Awards which were not on the telly as there was that whole other thing about potentially dodgy text voting last year. So yes, hurrah.

Mister James Bachman pointed me towards this longer clip of the BAFTAwang moment. I really love the ‘coverage of people’ sketches and almost but not quite shed a little tear over how bad Little Britain got.

“someone asked me where my suit came from and I very nearly said, ‘It’s none of your business.’ But people are interested [in things like that]“: David at the Baftas.

Congratulations to Robert and David (and the marvellous Gareth ‘high visibility black t-shirts’ Edwards and co) on the BAFTA for the bestest comedy show ever ever.

Phew. It could have been something horrible winning.