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" The British Comedy Awards - the most raucous and notorious of British awards shows - returns next month and the nominations are announced in a special show on Sunday evening. But which comics and sitcom writers will be clinking champagne glasses this weekend? And who will be grumpily mumbling about how they&amp;#039;ve been robbed and bitterly tweeting snide remarks about their rivals? Digital Spy has cobbled together a number of shows that we&amp;#039;d love to get nods on the longlist this year. If we had our way, they&amp;#039;d all be winners, because we&amp;#039;re lovely like that. The Thick of It  &amp;quot;You know Jackie f**king Chan about me. YOU KNOW F**K ALL ABOUT ME! I am totally beyond the realms of your f**king tousle-haired, f**king dim-witted compre-f**king-hension.&amp;quot; Malcolm Tucker&amp;#039;s foul-mouthed farewell in series four of The Thick of It deserves to pick up every gong going. A sweary, angry, beautiful, genius ending to one of the greatest TV shows of the last decade.  Red Dwarf  A show that has never won nearly enough critical praise, Red Dwarf defied all the odds this year and returned for a 10th series, on a new channel, after a lengthy hiatus and was as sharp and smegging funny as its early &amp;#039;90s prime. An old fashioned sitcom (it had actual jokes and everything), it would be a final smack in the face of short-sighted BBC Two bosses if the sci-fi romp collected some trophies this year.  A Touch of Cloth  Silly, childish, immature, daft. These are a few words that could be used to describe Charlie Brooker&amp;#039;s gag-tastic cop show spoof A Touch of Cloth. Luckily, it was also incredibly, incredibly funny. With more jokes per minute than most shows do in a whole boxset, John Hannah and Suranne Jones delivering perfect deadpan performances and that Todd Carty cameo, it was the best new comedy series of the year, by quite some margin. Sophomore success   Channel 4&amp;#039;s Friday Night Dinner and Fresh Meat had no troubles with the notorious &amp;#039;tricky second album syndrome&amp;#039; as both shows attracted new fans and bigger laughs with their sophomore series. BBC Two&amp;#039;s LA-bashing Episodes also went from strength to strength with its second run and we&amp;#039;re already excited about season three. We&amp;#039;d love to see acting nods for the ever-brilliant Mark Heap in Friday Night Dinner and the stupendously weird Zawe Ashton in Fresh Meat as well. Old boys came back strongly   The biggest comedy comeback of 2012 came in the shape of Alan Partridge. Steve Coogan may be off to the big screen next year with North Norfolk Digital&amp;#039;s most famous star, but thankfully he left us with one final TV treat, the one-hour special documentary Welcome to the Places of My Life. Alongside the repackaged Mid-Morning Matters, it proved that there was plenty of life in the old dog yet. Someone give him a second series! Elsewhere, Ricky Gervais recovered from the misfire of Life&amp;#039;s Too Short to deliver an intriguing pilot with Derek. Divisive and controversial, it was the bravest and most unusual piece of work Gervais has done since The Office. Whether it was actually funny remains open to debate. Best of the rest   Sky really delivered on its promise of investment in British comedy this year. Julia Davis&amp;#039;s fabulously dark Hunderby, the heart-warming nostalgia-fest Walking and Talking,Adam Buxton&amp;#039;s madcap BUG and Chris O&amp;#039;Dowd&amp;#039;s sweet and witty Moone Boy all warrant a mention. There may not have been a major Inbetweeners-style comedy smash this year, but the British sitcom is still in very rude health.  Twenty Twelve bowed out in gold-medal winning style (Great Britain should host the Olympics every year, just so we can have more series),Him &amp;amp; Her remains a grubby gem on BBC Three, Cuckoo and Bad Education burst brightly onto screens with cracking first series, while Simon Amstell&amp;#039;s Grandma&amp;#039;s House and Getting On have slowly become must-watch cult classics.  What shows and stars do you want to get nominations on Sunday night? Let us know below. The British Comedy Awards Nomination Show airs on Channel 4 on Sunday, December 2 at 10.30pm. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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