Ricky Gervais wins Best Comedy Award in The Versions’s 2024 Streaming Awards with Humax

Ricky Gervais’s Netflix special Armageddon has won the Best Comedy award in The Version’s 2024 Streaming Awards with Humax, with winners voted for by you.

Gervais beat competition from Ghosts, Would I Lie To You and The Last Leg to scoop the accolade.

Considered one of the most influential British comedians since Charlie Chaplin, (he received the Charlie Chaplin Britannia Award for Excellence in Comedy 2016 BAFTA/LA) Ricky Gervais is the creator and star of The Office, Extras, Derek, and the critically acclaimed Netflix hit After Life.

Live Nation say: Following the global success of his two previous Netflix stand-up specials ‘Humanity’ and ‘Supernature’, 2023 saw Gervais release a third special and his biggest to date, ‘Armageddon’. It won a Golden Globe, was the global number 1 most-watched show on Netflix, and followed a record-breaking international tour, selling out 85 arena dates across the world. Gervais’s show at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles entered the Guinness Book of World Records as the highest-grossing comedy gig ever.

The Netflix special broke records, with more than 6 million streaming it in its first week of release.