Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year

The Juno Award for Comedy Album of the Year is awarded as recognition for the best Canadian comedy album released in the previous year. Irregularly presented from 1979 to 1984, the award was then discontinued until the Juno Awards announced in 2017 that they would revive the category for the Juno Awards of 2018.^[1]

Winners and nominees

Year	Winner(s)	Album	Nominees	Ref.
1979	Royal Canadian Air Farce	The Air Farce Comedy Album	Alden Diehl, Fight On Nestor Pistor, Best of Nestor Pistor Nestor Pistor, Nestor Pistor for Prime Minister Nancy White, Civil Service Songwriter	^[2]
1980	Rich Little	A Christmas Carol	Al Clouston, Cinderelly Steve Ivings, Steve's Record Eric Peterson, Billy Bishop Goes to War Nestor Pistor, Nestor Pistor	^[3]
Award not presented in 1981
1982	Bob & Doug McKenzie	The Great White North	Don Harron, Charlie Farquharson's Bible Stories John Stark, An Evening with Stephen Leacock Ted Woloshyn, It's Not the Heat...It's the Humility	^[2]
Award not presented in 1983
1984	Bob & Doug McKenzie	Strange Brew	Al Clouston, Laugh to Your Heart's Delight MacLean & MacLean, Go to Hell Royal Canadian Air Farce, Air Farce Live	^[2]
Award not presented 1985-2018
2018	Ivan Decker	I Wanted to Be a Dinosaur	Charlie Demers, Fatherland D.J. Demers, [Indistinct Chatter] K. Trevor Wilson, Sorry! (A Canadian Album) Rebecca Kohler, In Living Kohler	^[4]
2019	Dave Merheje	Good Friend Bad Grammar	Debra DiGiovanni, Lady Jazz Mayce Galoni, Awkwarder Chanty Marostica, The Chanty Show Pat Thornton, Chicken!	^[5]
2020	Sophie Buddle	Lil Bit of Buddle	Jarrett Campbell, Straight White Fail Adam Christie, General Anxiety Disorder Monty Scott, The Abyss Stares Back Steph Tolev, I'm Not Well	^[6]
2021	Jacob Samuel	Horse Power	Shirley Gnome, Decoxification Nick Nemeroff, The Pursuit of Comedy Has Ruined My Life Derek Seguin, PanDerek (1st Wave!) Matt Wright, Existing Is Exhausting	^[7]
2022	Andrea Jin	Grandma's Girl	Seán Devlin, Airports, Animals Hisham Kelati, Tigre King Keith Pedro, Trillipino Gavin Stephens, All Inclusive Coma	^[8]
2023	Jon Dore	A Person Who Is Gingerbread	Zabrina Douglas, Things Black Girls Say: The Album Courtney Gilmour, Let Me Hold Your Baby Jackie Pirico, Splash Pad Matt Wright, Here Live, Not a Cat	^[9]
2024	Kyle Brownrigg	A Lylebility	Graham Clark, Never Was Laurie Elliott, Sexiest Fish in the Lake Mae Martin, SAP Derek Seguin, Life of Leisure	^[10]

References

^ "The JUNO Awards Bring Back Comedy Album of the Year!" Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. Juno Awards, August 30, 2017.
^ ^a ^b ^c Comedy Album of the Year. Juno Awards.
^ "Complete list of nominees for tonight's Juno Awards". The Globe and Mail, April 2, 1980.
^ "Arcade Fire and Daniel Caesar lead 2018 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, February 6, 2018.
^ "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.
^ Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.
^ Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.
^ "Gala des prix JUNO 2022 | Charlotte Cardin devance Justin Bieber et The Weeknd dans les nominations!". sorstu.ca, March 1, 2022.
^ Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.
^ "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

[1] "The JUNO Awards Bring Back Comedy Album of the Year!" Archived 2018-04-01 at the Wayback Machine. Juno Awards, August 30, 2017.

[junodb-2] Comedy Album of the Year. Juno Awards.

[3] "Complete list of nominees for tonight's Juno Awards". The Globe and Mail, April 2, 1980.

[4] "Arcade Fire and Daniel Caesar lead 2018 Juno Award nominations". CBC Music, February 6, 2018.

[5] "Shawn Mendes and the Weeknd lead the 2019 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 29, 2019.

[6] Melody Lau, "Alessia Cara and Tory Lanez lead the 2020 Juno nominations". CBC Music, January 28, 2019.

[7] Holly Gordon and Andrea Warner, "Here are the 2021 Juno Award winners". CBC Music, June 4, 2021.

[8] "Gala des prix JUNO 2022 | Charlotte Cardin devance Justin Bieber et The Weeknd dans les nominations!". sorstu.ca, March 1, 2022.

[9] Jenna Benchetrit and Arti Patel, "The Weeknd picks up 4 wins on Junos 2023 opening night". CBC News, March 11, 2023.

[10] "Junos 2024: full list of winners". CBC Music, March 23, 2024.

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v t e Juno Awards
Awards to individuals	Artist of the Year Fan Choice Group of the Year Breakthrough Artist of the Year Breakthrough Group of the Year Producer Recording Engineer Songwriter
Awards for recordings	Album of the Year Adult Alternative Adult Contemporary Alternative Blues Children's Comedy Classical – Large Ensemble Classical – Small Ensemble Classical – Solo Classical Composition CCM/Gospel Contemporary Indigenous Artist Contemporary R&B/Soul Contemporary Roots Country Dance Electronic Francophone Global Music Heavy Metal Instrumental International Jazz – Solo Jazz – Group Jazz – Vocal Pop Rap Album/EP Rap Single Reggae Rock Single of the Year Traditional Indigenous Artist Traditional R&B/Soul Traditional Roots Underground Dance
Awards for technicality	Music DVD Recording Package Video
Discontinued categories	Classical Album of the Year (1977–1985) Classical – Solo or Chamber Ensemble (1985–2021) Classical – Vocal or Choral Performance (1994–2021) Indigenous Artist or Group (1994–2021) Jazz Album (1977–1993) Jazz – Contemporary (1994–2014) Jazz – Traditional (1994–2014) Rap Recording (1991–2021) R&B/Soul Recording (1985–2020) Roots and Traditional Album (1989–1995) Roots & Traditional Album – Solo (1996–2015) Roots & Traditional Album – Group (1996–2015)
Special awards	Canadian Music Hall of Fame Walt Grealis Special Achievement Award Juno Humanitarian Award
Years	1970 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1989¹ 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Leadership	Walt Grealis Stan Klees Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences
Notes	¹ Due to the rescheduling of the ceremony from late fall to early spring, no ceremony was held in 1988.
See also Music of Canada Polaris Music Prize Much Music Video Awards Félix Awards East Coast Music Awards Western Canadian Music Awards