I'll fess up - I'm late. I should have announced the Emporium fo Mirth Awards nominations ages ago but i haven't even compiled them, partly down to the lazyness of our readers.... just because the categories were open to offers they decided not to bother, humph at all 3000 of them that have read it since the announcement went up...

So anyway, i want to bounce em off of you lovely peeps to see what you think...

and if you want to ADD (not vote for, that'll start when it's all up on the Emporium)nominees or even whole categories to the list, either comment or e-mail votevotevote@emporiumofmirth.co.uk

The deadline for this is tomorrow afternoon, when Voting begins in good time for the awards ceremony being held as part of our emporium Of Mirth Day on April 1st, which will feature some top acts doing turns for your pleasure. Clue: some of them are nominated here....

Here are the nominations for the first annual Emporium Of Mirthday Awards so far:

The Good shoes award for best stand up:

Marcus Brigstocke
Simon Munnery
Stewart Lee
Noel Fielding
Rob Rouse
Shoppi Khorsandi
Andrew Maxwell
Gina Yashere
Rob Newman
Peter Kay
Dylan Moran

The Square eyes award for Best TV Show

The Mighty Boosh
Kath and Kim (which will have been on bbc2 by ceremony time)
Peep Show
Garth Marenghi's Dark Place
Little Britain
The Smoking Room
Nighty Night
Shameless
Coronation Street
Catterick
Black Books
Green Wing (which, to be honest I can't belive one of our readers actually LIKED)

The Slightly Pretentious award for best live show

Simon Munnery's Buckethead Phenomenon and on anon
Simon Farnaby's Lessons Learned While Driving a tractor
Marcus Brigstocke's Planet Corderoy
Andrew Maxwell: This is my hour
The Trap
Bad Play 2: Worser Play

The hiding behind a mask award for best character performer

Simon Farnaby
Gareth Tunley (for Sven Stacy)
Waen Shepheard (for Gary Le Strange)
Colin Hoult
Fergus Craig
Graham Fellows

The I can't beleive he's a bummer award for most delightfully camp

Robert Webb
Richard Ayode
David Walliams
Noel Fielding
Simon Pegg

The thouroughly nice chap award for niceness

Marcus Brigstocke
Paul Putner
Kevin Eldon
Simon Munnery
Emma Kennedy

The it takes two baby award for best double act

Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding
Matt Lucas and David Walliams
Colin Hoult and Fergus Craig
David Mitchell and Robert Webb
John Oliver and Andy Zaltsman

The Kevin Eldon award for versatility

Kevin Eldon
Paul Putner
Julia Davis
Julian Barratt

The Jill Tyrrell award for best comedy accent - sponsored by F***ing Vimto)

Julia Davis for Jill Tyrrell
Simon Farnaby for Mighty Mouse and Max Ogilvy
Noel Fielding for The Moon and the caveman
Julian Barratt for the caveman and Ruudy Van Desaalio

The I'M BLIND!!!!! award for best Radio Show

The Now Show
Nebuous
Mitch Benn's Crimes against Music
That Mitchell and Webb Sound
Heresy
The problem With Adam Bloom (Special Guest Starring Emporium OF Mirth's Lauren)

The Bic award for Best writer

Julia Davis
Tom Jamieson and Nev Fountain
Tiny Jon Holmes
Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt
Simon Pegg and Edgar Wright
Richard Ayode and Matt Holness


The get yer groove thang on award for best song

Electro Boy by Kraftwerk Orange
I am a Robot by goldie Lookin' Chain
Interactive song by Mitch Benn and the distractions

The Jimmy Carr award for worst thing

Jimmy Carr
Little Britain 2
Jimmy Carr
Max and Paddy's road to nowhere
Jimmy Carr
The bbc's tratment of the mighty boosh
Jimmy Carr
the Catherine Tate show
Jimmy Carr

I'd never tire of slapping his smug face award

Jimmy Carr

International comedy cumudgeon

Larry David


The cellluloid antics award for best film

Shaun of the dead
Napoleon Dynamite


and we're thinking of adding a best line category.... but it might be opening a can of worms instead...

Eeep! Sorry, Lauren I feel really guilty for not contributing to this.

How about... The Knickers-In-Twist Award for Comedy Most Offensive to Daily Mail Readers:

Jerry Springer The Opera - Stewart Lee
Nighty Night - Julia Davis
Monkey Dust
Peep Show

I`d like to know why everyone hates Jimmy Carr so much, I think he`s hilarious. Oh well, must just be me...

Um, I don't know... New Project You're Most Looking Forward to (with nervous anticipation/dread in case it's not as good as you expect)...

League of Gentlemen film
New series of Look Around You
Nathan Barley
etc


I quite like Jimmy Carr too, but I do think it's funny that everyone hates him so much. So do carry on.

Mmmm. Project you know isn`t going to be as good as the press it`s getting would suggest:

Hitch-Hiker`s Guide to the Galaxy

He's a useless, unfunny cunt.

There, that should have you in stitches

I've wet myself.

ooh, that's a good one, however, Jerry springer isn't eligible for the awards as it's been around for aaaages. the others will be oing in though

because he;s unfunny, conniving and downright slimy and talentless...

any more?

Hasn`t done Ricky Gervais any harm.

Because he hasn't realised that the trick to sarcasm is to use it sparingly for best effect.

Shuuurrely Jerry Springer The Opera is eligible? It's been around on stage for ages but it's only just been shown on tv this year. Aaaahh...

Hey Folks,

the nominations are now closed... which means the voting is open!

to view the final nominations and make your votes go To The Emporium and vote yo asses off

Crikey. Too many things to choose from! Are we only allowed to pick one thing for each category?

Some of those choices are very very very hard!

You can choose first second and third choice, but make sure you state which are which!!

Carr used to write gags for Gervais. And he is very funny. The Stephen Hawking bit in his live show made my face hurt.

when you look at carr and gervais they are just both generic, kind of boring comedians but when you take it down to the nitty gritty, you know when it comes down to 'well i dont like the way he just smiled then' and 'oh you can just TELL he loves himself!' then without a doubt ricky gervais pisses on jimy carr, jimmy carr is an idiot, i would not be suprised if he diddnt write his own jokes...not because they are funny, no no no no no no!Because they way he says them even a deaf blind dumb person would know hes about to crack a joke!Its brobably because hes trying to think 'remember the punchline, remember the punchline, remem......'!

i dont like him realy

I love Ricky Gervais.

Love, love, love.

P.S. I have also voted. It was fun. Julian Barratt and Noel Fielding may have got a couple of votes*.






*all the ones that were at all humanly possible.

*Shameless Bump*

The vote for this closes tomorrow so get clicking people!