All things Awards shows: Winning, Nominations, Hosting, Presenting…
In the early years Jimmy won quite a few awards but the way of the world is that, when you are in Phase 1 (new and fresh) you are up for loads of “best new comer” type awards. Phase 2 is when you’re too mainstream and not cool enough for recognition (and the new kids need a chance)…until Phase 3 rolls around, when you are finally old enough for a “lifetime achievement” award.
Having said that – the more details that I have found, the more that I thought this is a pretty consistent list of accolades and achievements (especially for someone that’s not a press darling). Only a tiny number of comics manage to sustain any level of success, across several decades, and he’s managing to straddle stand-up comedy AND TV work.
Some of these awards are a bigger deal than others and many refer to “lads mags” that no longer exist. Mags like Loaded, Nuts and Zoo loved an excuse for an awards ceremony and a party (many of which were televised) but, unfortunately, as money became tighter, the number of UK Comedy awards had decreased.
I’ve listed, where possible, the other nominees (usually in another post). To give an idea of who else was coming through the ranks each year.
Note: When a show says “longlisted” it refers to a “longlist” of perhaps 20-50 choices, that are available for the public to vote on. From that longlist vote the final list of nominees will usually be a shorter list of around 4-6 people / shows (sometimes referred to as the shortlist, depending on the award). Otherwise – it tends to be a case of Nominee / Winner.
This is a dynamic document that is being regularly updated – as I find more information.
Last Update: 2026 March 4
1999
So You Think You’re Funny? Award nominee (here). To place this August 1999 award in context, Jimmy’s first gig was 1998 (here).
Amused Moose National New Comic Award finalist (here).
2000
Gaslight Comedy Club, New Act of the Year Award was a photo finish with Jimmy in the top 3. More here.
Edinburgh, August 2000, finalist in the Daily Telegraph Open Mic Awards. More here.
2001
Leicester Mercury Comedian Of The Year 2001 Finalist. Here.
2002
Perrier Award Nominee at Edinburgh Fringe for “Bare Faced Ambition” tour (Best Comedy Show). More here.
2003
Time Out Comedy Awards 2003 Winner for Best Stand up. More details here.
Royal Television Society Awards (RTS) 2003 Winner for Best on-screen newcomer (Your Face or Mine, version with June Sarpong). See here.
Chortle Awards 2003 – Nominee for Best Headliner – see here.
Chortle Awards 2003 Nominee for Best Full-length Show (Bare Faced Ambition) – see here.
2004
Rose d’Or 2004 Nomination for Best Presenter (Distraction). More here.
Loaded LAFTA Awards 2004 – Winner for Best Stand-up. Jimmy beat off stiff competition from Peter Kay, Ricky Gervais, Dave Gorman and Ross Noble. Here.
2005
Number 20 on the Radio Times list of Most Powerful People in Tv Comedy. More here.
Loaded LAFTA Awards 2005 Winner for Funniest Man. More here.
Jongleurs Comedy Clubs polled 10,000 fans and Jimmy was voted the nation’s 10th favourite comedian.
FHM Awards – “Best Stand Up” voted 3rd and “Best Stand-Up DVD” voted 3rd for Jimmy Carr: Live. More here.
2006
Rose d’Or nomination for Best Game Show Host (Distraction UK). See more here.
Loaded LAFTAs 2006 Winner for Best Stand-up. More here.
British Comedy Awards 2006 Winner for Best Live Stand-Up Tour (Gag Reflex) and nomination for People’s Choice Award (for 8 Out of 10 Cats). Also, a movie that Jimmy had a role in (Confetti) was nominated for Best Comedy Film. See more here.
2006 – Jimmy’s picture was added to the National Portrait Gallery. Read more here.
Zoo poll for “100 Funniest People Alive” placed Jimmy 9th. Read more here.
2007
Loaded LAFTA Awards 2007 Winner for Best Stand Up. The other nominees this year were Russell Brand, Ricky Gervais, Lee Mack and Alan Carr. More here.
“100 Greatest Stand-Ups” – C4 poll / TV show – placed Jimmy in 12th place. More here.
One of Jimmy’s jokes was added into the Oxford Quotations Dictionary. See here.
Jimmy was 36th in Zoo’s list of 100 Coolest British Men. See here.
2008
Loaded LAFTA Awards 2008 Winner for Best Stand-up. Read more here.
2010
Loaded LAFTAs 2010 Awards Winner for Funniest Comedy Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats) and Nominee for Best Stand Up and also Nominee for Funniest DVD (Telling Jokes). See here.
Nuts (magazine) Awards 2010 Winner for Best Stand-up. See here.
“100 Greatest Stand-Ups” – C4 poll re-run / TV show – placed Jimmy in 13th place. More here.
2011
Loaded LAFTA Awards 2011 Winner for Loaded Legend and also nominee for Best Stand-up and nominee for Best Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats). See more here.
Zoo Awards 2011 Winner in poll for “Funniest Man in Britain”. See here.
Long listed in the 2011 NTAs (National Television Awards) for Best Entertainment Presenter and Best Entertainment Programme (Big Fat Quiz). See here.
Blackpool’s Comedy Carpet was unveiled in Oct 2011 and Jimmy’s name features – see more here.
2012
Loaded LAFTA 2012 Awards – Winner of Funniest DVD and Nominee for Funniest Man, Funniest Twitterer, Funniest Joke and Funniest Comedy Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats). See details here.
2013
Both Jimmy’s parents came from Limerick and he was awarded a Certificate of Irish Heritage in 2013. See here.
British Comedy Awards 2013 and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown was shortlisted for Best Comedy Panel Show. See here.
Tied into the British Comedy Awards Jimmy was one of the comedians featured on The Beano annual 75th anniversary limited edition cover. See here.
2014
Heat magazines “Weird Crush” poll, voted 18th – see here.
Nuts Awards 2014 Winner for Funniest Comic
2015
Montreal, Canada. At the 2015 Just For Laughs Festival Jefferey Ross hosted The Roastmaster’s Invitational. The final was Jimmy versus Matthew Broussard and Jimmy won. More here.
Ents24 Hardest Working Comedian (15th) – see here.
Heat Magazine “Weird Crush” poll, voted 13th – see here.
2016
Comedy.co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2016 Awards – 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Winner for category Best TV Panel Show. See here.
2017
Two of Jimmy’s shows were shortlisted for the 2017 British Comedy Guide awards (see here).
Ents24 Hardest Working Comedian (5th) – see here.
2018
Named as 23rd on the London Power 100 list – see here.
Comedy. co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2018 Awards – shortlisted for Best TV Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown). Winner was Would I Lie To You? And other nominees were Have I Got News For You, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, Mock The Week and QI
30th July 2018 The Comedy Store in LA announced that they had added some new names to their wall of fame (alumni of the venue). This is a huge honour, especially for a Brit. Details here.
2019
Netflix UK’s 3rd Most Watched special, Best of Ultimate Gold Greatest Hits (as compiled by Netflix). More here.
Listed as #57 on the 2019 London Power 100 list – see here.
International Format Awards 2019 nominee for Best Host of a Format (Roast Battle UK). See here.
Comedy. co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2019 Awards – shortlisted for Best TV Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown). Winner was Would I Lie To You? And other nominees were Have I Got News For You, Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule, Mock The Week and QI
Ents24 Hardest Working Comedian (3rd) – see here.
2020
Netflix UK’s 2nd Favourite Stand-up and number 8 globally. Streaming company analysis of Jan 2016 to July 2019 viewing figures. Topped only by Dave Chappelle.
Named as 52nd on London’s 2020 Power 100 List
NTA (National Television Awards) longlisted for Best TV Presenter. Also 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown longlisted for the Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award.
Comedy. co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2020 Awards – shortlisted for Best TV Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year). Winner was Would I Lie To You? And other nominees were Have I Got News For You, Mock The Week and QI
2021
Declared “Scientifically the Funniest British Comedian”. 120 volunteers were shown random clips from 20 stand-up shows, in a scientific experiment. More here.
National Comedy Awards 2021 longlisted for Best Stand-up show (Terribly Funny) and Outstanding Male Comedy Entertainment Performance (Jimmy Carr for 8 Out of 10 Cats Down Countdown) and shortlisted (nominee) for Best Comedy Entertainment Series (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown)**.
**That last category was won by Taskmaster and the other nominees were Rob and Romesh vs and Would I Lie To You?
2022
Ticket Source analysis of the World’s Most Influential Comedians (Jimmy is UK number 1). The article lays out how they calculated this analysis of clout. See here.
NTA (National Television Award) 2022 for TV Presenter (longlisted)
Rose d’Or Nominee for Studio Entertainment category (Jimmy’s Carr’s I Literally Just Told You). More here.
2023
National Comedy Awards 2023 Winner for Best Comedy Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown). Award accepted by Jon Richardson. Also, Jimmy longlisted for Outstanding Male Comedy Performance
NTA 2023 for TV Presenter (longlisted)
Comedy. co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2023 Awards – shortlisted for Best TV Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year). Winner was Would I Lie To You? And other nominees were Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI
2024
Comedy. co.uk (British Comedy Guide) 2024 Awards – shortlisted for Best TV Panel Show (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and The Big Fat Quiz of the Year). Winner was Would I Lie To You? And other nominees were Have I Got News For You, Never Mind The Buzzcocks and QI
In July 2024 Chortle ran a story celebrating Jimmy’s main YouTube channel hitting 1m. See here.
Live Business Breakfast Australia awarded Best Australian Comedy Tour to Jimmy (beating Dave Chappelle and Kevin Hart) for his 2023 Terribly Funny 2.0 Tour. See here.
2025
Tellycast Digital YouTube Awards– Jimmy’s YouTube channel was shortlisted in category Comedy Channel. See here.
Ticketmaster Ireland listed Jimmy as one of 10 shortlisted nominees for Comedian of the Year. The winner was Tommy Tiernan. More here.
NTA (National Television Awards) longlisted for Best TV Presenter. Also, two shows that he hosts were longlisted: Best Quiz Show (Big Fat Quiz) and The Bruce Forsyth Entertainment Award (Last One Laughing UK). Read more here.
India’s DeadAnt Comedy Awards – Natural Born Killer has won Viewer’s Choice, India’s Favourite International Comedy Special. Read more here.
The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr has won Gold at the Signal Awards. Read more here. First British comedian to surpass 1.5, YouTube channel subscribers – here
2026
The Big Pitch With Jimmy Carr nominated for The Ambies (Best Comedy Podcast) – here.
Three of Jimmy’s shows were shortlisted for Comedy.co.uk Awards 2025 (8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown, Big Fat Quiz and Last One Laughing UK). See here.
Last One Laughing (UK) was the 5th most watched, in the British 2025 streaming Top 10 – here.
Broadcast Awards, Last One Laughing UK wins Best Entertainment Programme – here
First comedian in the world to perform in the Pula Arena, Croatia. A Roman Amphitheatre. See here.
Last One Laughing UK shortlisted for a Broadcasting Press Guild Award in the category Best Entertainment. See here.
Not an award, per se, but AITA S1 was a big hit for Comedy Central (see here) and they’ve commissioned S2.
Champions Agency have analysed the Top 25 Event and Awards Hosts for 2026 and Jimmy is #1. See more here.
Last One Laughing (UK) S1 has won Best TV Show at the 2026 Chortle Awards. See more here.
Last One Laughing (UK) S1 has won the Royal Television Society (RTS) Award for Best Comedy Entertainment. See here.
Jimmy / Banijay Rights have received two Tellycast Digital Video Awards nominations. A nomination for Comedy Channel for Jimmy’s YouTube channel and one for Digital Original Format – Comedy & Entertainment for Jimmy’s Road Kill special. See here.
Last One Laughing (UK) won the Entertainment Award at the BAFTAs. Bob Mortimer won Entertainment Performance for LOL and his speed date with Richard Ayoade was shortlisted in a public vote category. See here.
Surpassed 20 million subscribers / followers on his social accounts. See here.
Hosting
What about the TV / Comedy awards shows that Jimmy has hosted?
In 2004 Jimmy hosted the Chortle Awards – here.
Chortle announced, in 2005, that Jimmy would be hosting their Chortle Awards 2005. See more details here.
Hosted the GQ Men of The Year Awards in 2006 – see here.
Presenting
Comedians often get to present their colleagues with awards…
The British Comedy Awards 2004 saw Jimmy presenting an award alongside Ronnia Ancona. See here.
Jimmy, a man with “no sex appeal” who would “never be a huge star” presented a British Comedy Award, in 2007, alongside Gillian Anderson. See here.
In 2007 there was a televised awards show for Greatest Briton 2007 and Jimmy presented one of the awards. See here.
Also, in 2007, Jimmy presented an award, alongside Kimberly Stewart, at the Vodafone Live Music Awards.
At the 2011 Sun Military Awards (Millies) Jimmy was an award presenter. See here.
At the 2011 GQ Men of The Year Awards (MOTY) Jimmy presented Lara Stone with Woman of the Year award. See more here.
At the 2013 Sun Military Awards (Millies) Jimmy was an award presenter. See here.
Trivia
Other award show related attendances and stuff…
An interesting fact about the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year 2001 (which was part of the Leicester Comedy Festival) was that Jimmy “performed a rap”.
Q (music magazine): Jimmy attended the 2003 Q Awards (as a guest) and again in 2004.
9th February 2009 Jimmy attended the Elle Style Awards and after party. Read more here.
At the 2013 British Comedy Awards a Limited Edition 75th anniversary copy of a Beano annual dust sleeve was created, to hand to guests, featuring cartoon caricatures of the comedians. Jimmy featured – see here.
Jimmy’s feet have a presence on WikiFeet (men). With a score of 4.39.