British Comedy Awards 2014 programme

Read an online copy of the programme for the British Comedy Awards. It includes various articles, including tributes to Rik Mayall and Addison Cresswell.

The British Comedy Awards 2014: predictions

As the biggest night in the British comedy calendar rolls around, 
Time Out offers predictions for the four big categories. Plus see the full list of nominees.

The British Comedy Awards drinking game 2014

Not enjoying the ceremony? Make it funnier by playing our BCAs drinking game.

Breaking down The British Comedy Awards

The nominations for this year's British Comedy Awards have been announced and, as is traditional, if you look hard enough you can find a twinkling gem of talent amidst the grey sludge of interchangeable panel games, banterrific sketch shows and sitcoms about being middle class in socially awkward scenarios.

How comedy awards start, get credible & where they lead

Comedy awards seem to be a growing industry.

It was a bit rich of Jonathan Ross to call C4 "f***ing idiots" for cutting Steve Coogan short at The British Comedy Awards.

You were the host, Jonathan. Perhaps if you'd kept a tighter rein on the earlier ramblings - yes you, Will Ferrell - poor old Coogan would not have suffered such a gross invasion of his publicity.

By all accounts Coogan gave a pretty funny speech. So I guess if C4 had left it in it would have looked totally out of place on this show. The night opened with Rossy admitting "It's hard to know what makes good comedy" and ended with us in no doubt as to what does not.

No wonder so many people complained when the BBC cut short a repeat of Mrs Brown's Boys to announce Mandela's death. We're so starved of laughs these days we must protect the few we have.

The rant by Johnny Vegas detailing everything that is wrong about British comedy should be nailed to the wall of every TV office. Failing that, just nail it to Jack Whitehall. His face gets everywhere these days.