Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in a Comedy Series


The Canadian Screen Award for Best Actor in Comedy Series is an annual Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best leading performance by an actor in a Canadian television comedy series.
The award was first presented in 1986 as part of the Gemini Awards. However, as Canadian television comedy was dominated by sketch comedy rather than narrative sitcoms in the late 1980s and 1990s, the awards for Best Actor and Best Actress in a Comedy Series were discontinued after 1987, with only a single gender-neutral award presented for Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Series thereafter. With the revival of scripted narrative comedy series in the 2000s, separate awards for actors and actresses were reinstated in 2011, and have been presented since then as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.

1980s

2010s

YearWinnerNominated
2011 Peter Keleghan, 18 to Life
2012 Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Ryan Belleville, Almost Heroes
  • Shaun Majumder, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  • Bob Martin, '
  • Martin Short, I, Martin Short, Goes Home
    • 2013 Jason Priestley, Call Me Fitz
  • Jesse Camacho, Less Than Kind
  • Gavin Crawford, Gavin Crawford's Wild West
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Ron James, The Ron James Show
    • 2014 Don McKellar, Sensitive Skin
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Dave Foley, Spun Out
  • Adam Korson, Seed
  • Mark Meer, Tiny Plastic Men
    • 2015 Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Dave Foley, Spun Out
    • 2016 Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kim's Convenience
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Jared Keeso, Letterkenny
  • Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek
    • 2017 Paul Sun-Hyung Lee, Kim's Convenience
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Jared Keeso, Letterkenny
  • Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek
    • 2018 Jared Keeso, Letterkenny
  • Gerry Dee, Mr. D
  • Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Jason Priestley, Private Eyes
    • 2019 Eugene Levy, Schitt's Creek'
  • Jared Keeso, Letterkenny
  • Paul Sun Hyung Lee, Kim's Convenience
  • Dan Levy, Schitt's Creek
  • Jason Priestley, Private Eyes''