365 yesterdays... A look back at the comedy year.

Another year over, another one just begun, well, nearly. But who were the winners and losers in the comedy world over the past 12 months?

Good Year

For Little Britain, which won every award going, taking The Office's comedy crown. Great for Matt and David but it means every workplace bore now endlessly recites the catchphrases as compensation for their own lack of wit.

Talking of which... Monty Python proved as strong as ever, with the Dead Parrot being named best sketch ever and the 'What Have The Romans Ever Done For Us' rant from Life Of Brian the funniest movie scene.

Now the HolyGrail spin-off, Spamalot, is previewing in Chicago before its Broadway run.

Not that The Office did too badly, mind. Ricky Gervais picked up two Golden Globes at the start of the year. He may have mentioned it once or twice.

Good year, too for Catherine Tate, whose BBC TWO sketch show won at the Banff TV festival in the States.

And for stand-up and author Mark Watson, who completed the longest ever Edinburgh Fringe show, at 24 hours, ending with him proposing to his girlfriend.

Also a good year for unknown Will Adamsdale, who won the Perrier Award with his show Jackson's Way.

Bad Year

For Billy Connolly, whose comments about hostage Ken Bigley days before he was murdered won him lots of headlines, but few friends.

For Peter Kay. The man who could once do no wrong unveiled Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere, to what they euphemistically call 'mixed reviews'. And its opening night ratings of 3.6million slumped to a low of 2.6million during the run. Expect a return of Phoenix Nights to rebuild his reputation.

For Steve Coogan, whose 'cocaine and lapdancers shame' was exposed in the News Of The World.

For the Johnny Vegas/Mackenzie Crook film flop Sex Lives Of The Potato Men. Least said, soonest mended.

For German comedy (no, that's not an oxymoron) Stromberg, which stands accused of ripping off The Office, a charge the producers strenuously deny.

For the London Comedy Festival, which has petered out after failing to attract enough sponsorship.

For the American sitcom, with the end of Friends, Frasier and Sex And The City.

And for Channel 4's Kings Of Comedy, the Big Brother clone that tried to emulate the success of America's Last Comic Standing but turned out to be a little-seen damp squib.

Last laughs

And it's farewell to:

Bob Monkhouse, Rikki Fulton, Peter Ustinov, Bernard Levin, Rodney Dangerfield, 'Allo 'Allo star Richard Marner and Nicholas Luard, who helped Peter Cook save Private Eye.