Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer

The Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer is an award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2006.^[1]

Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.

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Year	Performer(s)	Production
2006 (6th)	Colin Lane and Frank Woodley	Lano & Woodley – Goodbye
2006 (6th)	Akmal Saleh	Akmal Live!
	Judith Lucy	I Failed!
	David Collins & Shane Dundas	The Umbilical Brothers – The Rehearsal
2007 (7th)	Adam Hills	Adam Hills – Joymonger
2007 (7th)	Akmal Saleh	Akmal Live!
	Fiona O'Loughlin	N/A
	Tom Gleeson	Tom On!
2008 (8th)	David Collins & Shane Dundas	The Umbilical Brothers – Don't Explain
2008 (8th)	Frank Woodley	Possessed
	Julia Morris	Shoosh Please!
	Ross Noble	N/A
2009 (9th)	Tim Minchin	Tim Minchin – Ready For This?
2009 (9th)	Adam Hills	Adam Hills – Inflatable
	Judith Lucy	Judith Lucy's Not Getting Any Younger
	Julia Morris	"Don't you know who I use to be?"
2010 (10th)	Wil Anderson	Wil Anderson – Wilful Misconduct
2010 (10th)	Kitty Flanagan	Charming and Alarming
	Fiona O'Loughlin	On a Wing and A Prayer
	Hannah Gadsby	Hannah Gadsby – The Cliff Young Shuffle
2011 (11th)	Denise Scott	Regrets
2011 (11th)	Hannah Gadsby	Mrs Chuckles
	Tom Gleeson	Up Himself
	Wil Anderson	Man vs Wil
2012 (12th)	Tim Minchin	Tim Minchin vs The Orchestras Round II
2012 (12th)	Wil Anderson	Wilarious
	Judith Lucy	Nothing Fancy
	Sam Simmons	About the Weather
2013 (13th)	Julia Morris	No Judgement
2013 (13th)	Kitty Flanagan	Hello Kitty Flanagan
	Hannah Gadsby	Happiness is a Bedside Table
	Wil Anderson	GoodWil
2014 (14th)	Sam Simmons	Death Of A Sails-Man
2014 (14th)	Ronny Chieng	Chieng Reaction
	Tom Gleeson	Quality
	The Boy With Tape on His Face	More Tape
2015 (15th)	Judith Lucy	Ask No Questions of the Moth
2015 (15th)	Ronny Chieng	You Don't Know What You're Talking About
	Nazeem Hussain	Legally Brown
	Matt Okine	The Other Guy
	Sam Simmons	Spaghetti for Breakfast
2016 (16th)	Tom Ballard	The World Keeps Happening[3]
2016 (16th)	Zoë Coombs Marr	Trigger Warning
	Doug Anthony Allstars – Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson, Paul Livingston	Reunion. Rebirth
	Julia Morris	I Don't Want Your Honest Feedback
2017 (17th)	Hannah Gadsby	Nanette
2017 (17th)	Aunty Donna	Big Boys
	Tom Ballard	Problematic
	Joel Creasey	Poser
	Nazeem Hussain	Public Frenemy Nazeem Hussain
	Sammy J	Hero Complex
2018 (18th)	Celia Pacquola	All Talk
2018 (18th)	Urzila Carlson	Studies Have Shown
	Zoë Coombs Marr	Bossy Bottom
	Anne Edmonds	Helen Bidou – Enter the Spinnaker Lounge
	Colin Lane & Frank Woodley	Lano & Woodley – Fly
	Julia Morris	Lift and Separate Golden Jubilee
	Rhys Nicholson	Seminal