2025 Chortle Award Nominations

The nominations for the 2025 Chortle Awards are here, with plenty of familiar faces amongst them!

The Chortle Awards celebrate the best of comedy throughout the year, with an emphasis on live comedy in the UK. We're so excited to be welcoming loads of this year's nominees to the 2025 Melbourne International Comedy Festival!

Jin Hao Li has been nominated in the Best Newcomer category, and the Sketch and Variety award sees nominations for both Elf Lyons and Flo & Joan. Flo & Joan also received a nomination for their show One Man Musical in the Best Show category.

The Best Tour category is filled with familiar faces, including Sarah Keyworth, winner of the 2024 Most Outstanding Show award at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Also nominated in this category are Nish Kumar and Kiri Pritchard-McLean, both of whom are performing at the 2025 Melbourne Comedy Festival, and long-time Festival fave, Australia's own Sam Campbell.

Rosie Jones is up for Best TV Comedian. The Best Podcast category sees nominations for Pierre Novellie and Olga Koch for their podcast 'Glue Factory' with Milo Edwards and Riley, and for Amy Gledhill and her podcast 'Single Ladies In Your Area' with Harriet Kemsley.

In the Social Media Award category is 2025 New Order cast member Paddy Young, nominated alongside Ed Night. Pierre Novellie gets a second nomination, this time in the Book Award category, for his book 'Why Can't I Just Enjoy Things?'

Congratulations to all of this year's nominees! Voting in the Chortle Awards is open to the public, and open now until 7 March.