# 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, 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 Performance in a Comedy thereafter; separate awards for Individual Performance in a Comedy and Ensemble Performance in a Comedy were introduced for the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001, but were still not separated for gender.
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.
In August 2022, the Academy announced that beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, a gender-neutral award for Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series will be presented.

## 1980s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | Louis Del Grande | Seeing Things |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | Don Adams | Check it Out! |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | David Eisner | Hangin' In |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | Louis Del Grande | Seeing Things |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | David Eisner | Hangin' In |

## 2010s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Peter Keleghan | 18 to Life |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Chris Leavins | Todd and the Book of Pure Evil |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Jason Priestley | Call Me Fitz |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | John Ralston | Living in Your Car |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Ryan Belleville | Almost Heroes |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Shaun Majumder | This Hour Has 22 Minutes |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Bob Martin | Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Martin Short | I, Martin Short, Goes Home |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Jason Priestley | Call Me Fitz |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Jesse Camacho | Less Than Kind |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Gavin Crawford | Gavin Crawford's Wild West |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Ron James | The Ron James Show |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Don McKellar | Sensitive Skin |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Dave Foley | Spun Out |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Adam Korson | Seed |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Mark Meer | Tiny Plastic Men |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Dave Foley | Spun Out |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Gerry Dee | Mr. D |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Jason Priestley | Private Eyes |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Jason Priestley | Private Eyes |

## 2020s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Dan Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Eugene Levy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Kim's Convenience |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Darryl Hinds | Overlord and the Underwoods |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Jared Keeso | Letterkenny |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Simu Liu | Kim's Convenience |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Jason Priestley | Private Eyes |