Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer
The Helpmann Award for Best Comedy Performer is an award, presented by Live Performance Australia at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2007. In the following list winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.
Winners and nominees
- Source:
| Year | Performer | Production |
| 2007 | Adam Hills | Adam Hills - Joymonger |
| 2007 | Akmal Saleh | Akmal Live! |
| 2007 | Fiona O'Loughlin | N/A |
| 2007 | Tom Gleeson | Tom On! |
| 2008 | David Collins and Shane Dundas | The Umbilical Brothers - Don't Explain |
| 2008 | Frank Woodley | Possessed |
| 2008 | Julia Morris | Shoosh Please! |
| 2008 | Ross Noble | N/A |
| 2009 | Tim Minchin | Tim Minchin - Ready For This? |
| 2009 | Adam Hills | Adam Hills - Inflatable |
| 2009 | Judith Lucy | Judith Lucy's Not Getting Any Younger |
| 2009 | Julia Morris | "Don't you know who I use to be?" |
| 2010 | Wil Anderson | Wil Anderson - Wilful Misconduct |
| 2010 | Kitty Flanagan | Charming and Alarming |
| 2010 | Fiona O'Loughlin | On a Wing and A Prayer |
| 2010 | Hannah Gadsby | Hannah Gadsby - The Cliff Young Shuffle |
| 2011 | Denise Scott | Regrets |
| 2011 | Hannah Gadsby | Mrs Chuckles |
| 2011 | Tom Gleeson | Up Himself |
| 2011 | Wil Anderson | Man vs Wil |
| 2012 | Tim Minchin | Tim Minchin vs The Orchestras Round II |
| 2012 | Wil Anderson | Wilarious |
| 2012 | Judith Lucy | Nothing Fancy |
| 2012 | Sam Simmons | About the Weather |
| 2013 | Julia Morris | No Judgement |
| 2013 | Kitty Flanagan | Hello Kitty Flanagan |
| 2013 | Hannah Gadsby | Happiness is a Bedside Table |
| 2013 | Wil Anderson | GoodWil |
| 2014 | Sam Simmons | Death Of A Sails-Man |
| 2014 | Ronny Chieng | Chieng Reaction |
| 2014 | Tom Gleeson | Quality |
| 2014 | The Boy With Tape on His Face | More Tape |
| 2015 | Judith Lucy | Ask No Questions of the Moth |
| 2015 | Ronny Chieng | You Don't Know What You're Talking About |
| 2015 | Nazeem Hussain | Legally Brown |
| 2015 | Matt Okine | The Other Guy |
| 2015 | Sam Simmons | Spaghetti for Breakfast |
| 2016 | Tom Ballard | The World Keeps Happening |
| 2016 | Zoë Coombs Marr | Trigger Warning |
| 2016 | Doug Anthony Allstars – Paul McDermott, Tim Ferguson, Paul Livingston | Reunion. Rebirth |
| 2016 | Julia Morris | I Don't Want Your Honest Feedback |
| 2017 | Hannah Gadsby | Nanette |
| 2017 | Aunty Donna | Big Boys |
| 2017 | Tom Ballard | Problematic |
| 2017 | Joel Creasey | Poser |
| 2017 | Nazeem Hussain | Public Frenemy Nazeem Hussain |
| 2017 | Sammy J | Hero Complex |
| 2018 | Celia Pacquola | All Talk |
| 2018 | Urzila Carlson | Studies Have Shown |
| 2018 | Zoe Coombs Marr | Bossy Bottom |
| 2018 | Anne Edmonds | Helen Bidou – Enter the Spinnaker Lounge |
| 2018 | Colin Lane & Frank Woodley | Lano & Woodley – Fly |
| 2018 | Julia Morris | Lift and Separate Golden Jubilee |
| 2018 | Rhys Nicholson | Seminal |