Tuesday, March 10, 2009 at 8:29AM
Joselyn Hughes presents Best Performance in a Commercial or Episode of Law and Order to Matt McCarthy | Photos: Keith Huang
Congratulations to everyone who won a last night at . As previous winners noted, your life will no longer be the same though your comedy career will be. The Big Apple's comedy illuminati gathered to celebrate All Things Funny. Here are the glorious winners.
^ Kurt Braunohler & Kristen Schaal
^ Nick Kocher and Brian McElhaney of BriTANick
THE WINNERS
Best Female Standup Comedian:
Best Host:
Best Improv Group:
Best Male Standup Comedian:
Best Musical Comedy Act (Solo or Group):
Reggie Watts
Best One Person Show:
Kumail Nanjiani's "Unpronounceable"
Best Short Comedic Film:
Sara Benincasa & Diana Saez
Best Sketch Comedy Group:
Best Technician:
Best Variety Show:
Emerging Comic Award:
Outstanding Achievement in Flyer or Postcard Design:
-- Jar Full of Roaches (Show)
Best Website:
Best Performance in a Commercial or Episode of Law and Order:
-- Verizon FIOS
Lifetime Achievement Award
-- The Writing Staff of Late Night with Conan O'Brien
NOTES
--Some of this year's winners have already become HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER BIGSHOTS:
Kumail
and
Lennon Parham
were unable to claim their trophies because they were out shopping/working in Los Angeles.
--Speaking of LA, it looks like
.
--
SPOTTED:
Thanks to the live Twitterfall of the event, the room learned that
Rachel Kramer Bussel
Also heard several people shrieking something to the effect of "OMG,
are here!"
--
Pat Baer
shattered the previous ECNY world record set by him by capturing his third award for Best Technician.
--The Best Sketch category brought in the most votes from the general public this year. But it was the Best Host that had the slimmest margin of victory:
Leo Allen
and 2 runners up were separated by just a few tenths of a percentage point.
--
won an auction to present an award. The winning bid was $2.
^ Mark Normand and Sean Patton
^ Chris "Shockwave" Sullivan
^ Ilana and Eliot Glazer
^ Mamrie Hart and Steve Soroka
^ Chris Gethard and Charlie Sanders
^ Murderfist
^ Danny Leary and Leah Dubie
^ Glennis McMurray (I Eat Pandas) and Brandon Gardner (Bastian)
Apparently I need to get better about reading The Apiary cause I hadn't seen the "Use Twitter to lifestream your thoughts @ecnyawards during the show for a chance to have them read to the crowd" or, um, I wouldn't have Tweeted that.