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A quick round up of the 2011 British Comedy Awards by the Crispy Comedy Cuts team, including all the bits we thought were important and minus all the bits we thought were rubbish. 

So “The Inbetweeners” won the outstanding achievement award at the British Comedy Awards – and deservedly so. One of the show’s characters, Joe Thomas, also picked up the first award of the night for Channel 4′s student comedy, “Fresh Meat”.

As ever Jonathan Ross hosted the awards prompting one of the best one-liner of the night from Steve Coogan, as he quipped,  ”It was actually quite easy to make a straight face at the Leveson inquiry; I just thought of your attempts at comedy”. Steve was on stage presenting the Writers’ Guild of Britain Award to comedy writing legend Armando Iannucci for “The Thick of It”. Iannucci, who of course, devised Coogan’s legendary Alan Partridge character, received a hilarious and heart felt introduction by the star of ‘The Trip’ and ‘Saxondale’.

Deservedly, the “Best Comedy Panel Show” award went to “Shooting Stars” which, of course, was recently given the chop by the BBC. Collecting the award, Bob Mortimer said sarcastically: “Thank you to the BBC.” But if you’re a Vic and Bob fan, fear not. The pair are back online at big comedy sponsors Fosters’ website – alongside fellow comedy legends from The Fast Show.

At the launch of the new online only series, the Fast Show’s co-creator Charlie Higson said they’d been persuaded to bring it back as a web-based series after so many searches for their old stuff via YouTube funny videos and the like.