How time flies.  Just as the harsh injustice of Ant and Dec winning a British Comedy Award and the disbelief that a comedy awards were held with no award for standup are beginning to fade into repressed memory along they come to do it again.

Again the geordie duo have garnered two nominations for their kids show in grown-up's clothing "Saturday Night Takeaway" and again stand-up comedy has been completely overlooked.  With standup providing so many of our current comedy actors and writers, not to mention the past greats, it seems unfathomable that the "British Comedy Awards" can just so easily ignore so big a part of the industry it claims to be celebrating.

One wonders if the claws of comercialism have finally dug all the way to the bones of the awards' organisers.  Then one sees that "I'm a celebrity, Get me out of here!" has also recieved a nomination and one stops wondering.

The full list of nominations are below for your reading pleasure.  Big Brother did not receive any nominations. It's only a matter of time.

Best TV comedy actor
Martin Clunes (Beauty/ Doc Martin, ITV1)
Matt Lucas & David Walliams (Little Britain, BBC Two)
Ricky Gervais (The Office - Christmas Special, BBC1)

Best TV comedy actress
Caroline Quentin (Life Begins/ Von Trapped, ITV1)
Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, BBC Two)
Julia Davis (Nighty Night, BBC Two)

Best comedy entertainment personality
Ant & Dec (Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway/ I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here!, ITV1)
Jonathan Ross (Friday Night With Jonathan Ross, BBC One)
Paul Merton (Have I Got News For You, BBC One/ Room 101, BBC Two)

Best comedy newcomer
Catherine Tate (The Catherine Tate Show, BBC Two)
James McAvoy (Shameless, Channel 4)
Julian Barrett and Noel Fielding (The Mighty Bosh, BBC Three)

Britain's best new TV comedy of 2004
Doc Martin (Buffalo Productions, ITV1)
Life Begins (Granada, ITV1)
Nighty Night (Baby Cow Productions, BBC Three)

Best TV comedy
Little Britain (BBC2 / BBC Three)
Nighty Night (Baby Cow Productions, BBC Two)
The Office - Christmas Special (BBC One)

Best TV comedy drama
Doc Martin (Buffalo Productions, ITV1)
Jonathan Creek (BBC One)
Shameless (Company Pictures, Channel 4)

Best comedy entertainment programme
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway (Granada, ITV1)
Have I Got News For You? (Hat Trick Productions, BBC One)
I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here! (LWT Factual, ITV1)

Best international comedy show
Curb Your Enthusiasm (HBO, BBC Four/E4)
Sex And The City (HBO/Channel 4)
The Simpsons (Twentieth Century Fox, BBC Two/Sky One/Channel 4)

Best comedy film
School Of Rock
Shaun Of The Dead
Shrek 2