Lafta’s amusing nominations

The nominations for the Loaded Lafta awards have been announced with Russell Brand, Justin Lee Collins and Alan Carr with three nominations each, and a number of interesting nominations for Posh & Becks, Eamonn Holmes, and Peter Andre.

Loaded editor Martin Daubney claims the Laftas, sponsored by Nivea for Men, are ‘the only comedy awards worth their salt’, hopefully tongue in cheek.

The awards ceremony will be at London’s Pigalle club on 4th October.

The full list of nominees is:

Best Stand Up
Russell Brand
Ricky Gervais
Jimmy Carr
Lee Mack
Alan Carr

Funniest TV Programme
Peep Show
The Mighty Boosh
My Name Is Earl
The Friday Night Project
Star Stories

Funniest Double Act
Alan Carr and Justin Lee Collins
Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt
David Mitchell and Robert Webb
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost
Posh & Becks

Funniest Film
Hot Fuzz
Blades of Glory
Superbad
Knocked Up
The Simpsons Movie

Funniest Man
Russell Brand
Will Ferrell
Justin Lee Collins
Alan Carr
Homer Simpson

Funniest Woman
Ashley Jensen
Catherine Tate
Michelle Gomez
Olivia Colman
Karen Taylor

Funniest TV Personality
Eamonn Holmes
Harry Hill
Paul Kaye
Fern Britton
Jonathan Ross

Funniest Reality TV Person
Brian Belo (Big Brother)
David Gest (I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here)
Tre Azam (The Apprentice)
Peter Andre (Katie and Peter: the Next Chapter)
Janet Street-Porter (Deadline)

Funniest Radio Show
Stephen Merchant (BBC 6 Music)
Chris Moyles (BBC Radio 1)
Scott Mills (BBC Radio 1)
Iain Lee (LBC 97.3)
Alan Brazil (Talksport)

Funniest Newspaper Columnist
Ally Ross (The Sun)
Ian Hyland (News of the World)
Bez (Daily Sport)
Russell Brand (The Guardian)
The Two Dannys (The Times)

Funniest DVD
Shameless Series 3
Mighty Boosh Series 2
Peep Show Series 3
Borat
Balls of Steel