Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance

The Grammy Award for Best Comedy Performance Single or Album, Spoken or Musical has been awarded since 1958. Years reflect the year in which the Grammy Awards were presented, for works released in the previous year.

• Note:
  • From 1994 to the present, the award has been titled Best Spoken Comedy Album.
  • From 1962 to 1993, it was known as Best Comedy Recording
  • Prior to 1962 it was Best Comedy Performance

Table of contents

1 2000s 2 1990s 3 1980s 4 1970s 5 1960s 6 1950s

2000s

• Grammy Awards of 2003: Robin Williams for Robin Williams - Live 2002
• Grammy Awards of 2002: George Carlin for Napalm & Sillyputty
• Grammy Awards of 2001: George Carlin for Braindroppings
• Grammy Awards of 2000: Chris Rock for Bigger and Blacker

1990s

• Grammy Awards of 1999: Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks for The 2000 Year Old Man In The Year 2000
• Grammy Awards of 1998: Chris Rock for Roll With The New
• Grammy Awards of 1997: Al Franken for Rush Limbaugh Is A Big Fat Idiot
• Grammy Awards of 1996: Jonathan Winters for Crank Calls
• Grammy Awards of 1995: Sam Kinison for Live From Hell
• Grammy Awards of 1994: George Carlin for Jammin' In New York
• Grammy Awards of 1993: Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: Music For An Awful Lot Of Winds & Percussion (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1992: Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: WTWP Classical Talkity-Talk Radio (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1991: Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: Oedipus Tex And Other Choral Calamities (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1990: Peter Schickele for P.D.Q. Bach: 1712 Overture And Other Musical Assaults (Album)

1980s

• Grammy Awards of 1989: Robin Williams for Good Morning, Vietnam (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1988: Robin Williams for A Night At The Met (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1987: Bill Cosby for Those Of You With Or Without Children, You'll Understand (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1986: Whoopi Goldberg for Whoopi Goldberg (Original Broadway Show Recording) (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1985: Weird Al Yankovic for "Eat It" (Single)
• Grammy Awards of 1984: Eddie Murphy for Eddie Murphy: Comedian (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1983: Richard Pryor for Live On The Sunset Strip (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1982: Richard Pryor for Rev. Du Rite (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1981: Rodney Dangerfield for No Respect (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1980: Robin Williams for Reality...What A Concept (Album)

1970s

• Grammy Awards of 1979: Steve Martin for A Wild And Crazy Guy (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1978: Steve Martin for Let's Get Small (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1977: Richard Pryor for ''Bicentennial Nigger (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1976: Richard Pryor for Is It Something I Said? (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1975: Richard Pryor for That Nigger's Crazy (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1974: Cheech and Chong for "Los Cochinos"
• Grammy Awards of 1973: George Carlin for "FM And AM"
• Grammy Awards of 1972: Lily Tomlin for This Is A Recording (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1971: Flip Wilson for The Devil Made Me Buy This Dress (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1970: Bill Cosby for "Bill Cosby"

1960s

• Grammy Awards of 1969: Bill Cosby for "To Russell, My Brother, Whom I Slept With"
• Grammy Awards of 1968: Bill Cosby for "Revenge"
• Grammy Awards of 1967: Bill Cosby for "Wonderfulness"
• Grammy Awards of 1966: Bill Cosby for Why Is There Air? (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1965: Bill Cosby for "I Started Out As A Child"
• Grammy Awards of 1964: Allan Sherman for Hello Mudduh, Hello Faddah (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1963: Vaughn Meader for The First Family (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1962: Mike Nichols for An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May (Album)
• Grammy Awards of 1961: (two awards)
  • Spoken: Bob Newhart for "The Button-Down Mind Strikes Back!"
  • Musical: Paul Weston (writer) for "Jonathan And Darlene Edwards in Paris", performed by Paul Weston and Jo Stafford as "Jonathan & Darlene Edwards"
• Grammy Awards of 1960: (two awards)
  • Spoken: Shelley Berman for Inside Shelley Berman (Album)
  • Musical: Kenneth Burns for The Battle of Kookamonga (Album), performed by Kenneth Burns as "Homer & Jethro"

1950s

• Grammy Awards of 1959: Ross Bagdasarian Sr for "The Chipmunk Song", performed by Ross Bagdasarian Sr. as "David Seville And The Chipmunks"