The final nominees have been announced for this year’s Chortle Awards.

Up for best tour are: Bridget Christie: A Bic For Her/An Ungrateful Woman double bill, Dawn French: 30 Million Minutes, Mark Thomas: Cuckooed and Katherine Ryan: Glam Role Model.

Voting in all the categories opens at 9am tomorrow, and details of next month’s ceremony will be announced soon.

Previously announced are:

Best newcomer

Alex Edelman, Dane Baptiste, Gein’s Family Gift Shop, Phil Jerrod and Steen Raskopoulos

Music and Variety award

Jess Robinson and Kirsty Newton for Jess Robinson: Mighty Voice, Margaret Thatcher: Queen Of Soho, Nick Helm, and Nick Mohammed for Dracula! (Mr Swallow: The Musical).

Best DVD

Harry Hill for Sausage Time; Monty Python Live (Mostly): One Down Five To Go; Stewart Lee’s Comedy Vehicle Series 3 and The Trip to Italy.

Best compere

Ed Gamble, John Robins, Mark Olver, Nish Kumar and Zoe Lyons

Book Award

Ayoade on Ayoade, Hopeful by Omid Djalili, My Prefect Cousin: A Biography of Paul Hamilton by Kevin Eldon and Francesca Martinez: What The **** Is Normal.

Breakthrough act

James Acaster, Luisa Omielan, Nish Kumar and Phil Ellis

Club comic

Carl Donnelly, Jeff Innocent, Katherine Ryan and Martin Mor

Character, improv or sketch act

Funz And Gamez, Gein’s Family Gift Shop, Marcel Lucont and Steen Raskopoulos.

Internet Award

Comedian’s Comedian with Stuart Goldsmith, QI’s No Such Thing As A Fish, Richard Herring’s Leicester Square Theatre Podcast, and The Political Party with Matt Forde

Radio Award

Bridget Christie Minds The Gap; Elis James & John Robins on XFM; Susan Calman is Convicted amd Tom Wrigglesworth: Utterly At Odds With The Universe

Award For Innovation

Alex Horne for Monsieur Butterfly, Funz And Gamez, and Kim Noble for You’re Not Alone.

Best show

Funz And Gamez, James Acaster: Recognise, Kim Noble: You Are Not Alone, Luisa Omeilan: Am I Right Ladies? and Simon Amstell: To Be Free

TV Award, sponsored by Sue Terry Voices

Harry & Paul’s Story Of The Twos, Inside No 9, Toast Of London and Uncle

We have also announced changes to the venue awards. Each region will now have three categories:

• Best comedy venue, for a purpose-built comedy club, arts centre or theatre, or a function room that regularly hosts comedy with a capacity of 250 or more.

• Best club room, for rooms above/behind pubs or similar.

• Favourite club night. This is for a specifically marketed night; it could be comedy nights based around a theme, a particular new act night or format, or if several promoters use the same venue, you can vote for one of the particular nights in that space.

All these regional winners will be announced about a week before the ceremony; at which UK-wide winners in each section will be announced.

Published: 17 Feb 2015