Canadian Screen Award for Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series explained

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Comedy Series is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program, to honour the best leading performance in a Canadian television comedy series.

It is a merger of the former awards for Best Actor in a Comedy Series and Best Actress in a Comedy Series, following the academy's announcement in August 2022 that it would start presenting gender-neutral acting awards instead of gendered ones.^[1]

2020s

Year	Actor	Series	Ref
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
	Bilal Baig	Sort Of	^[2]
	Dani Kind	Workin' Moms	^[3]
	Meredith MacNeill	Pretty Hard Cases
	Adrienne C. Moore	Pretty Hard Cases
	Rakhee Morzaria	Run the Burbs
	Andrew Phung	Run the Burbs
	Meaghan Rath	Children Ruin Everything
	Catherine Reitman	Workin' Moms
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
	Meaghan Rath	Children Ruin Everything
	Benjamin Evan Ainsworth	Son of a Critch	^[4]
	Mark Critch	Son of a Critch
	Dani Kind	Workin' Moms
	Andrew Phung	Run the Burbs
	Catherine Reitman	Workin' Moms
	Chris Sandiford	Shelved
	Carolyn Taylor	I Have Nothing

Notes and References

1. Joseph Pugh, "Canadian Screen Awards switching to gender-neutral performance categories". CBC News, August 25, 2022.
2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/csas-final-night-2023-1.6811617 "The Porter, Sort Of showered in awards on the CSAs' final night"
3. Joseph Pugh, "Clement Virgo's Brother, sci-fi comedy Viking among leading nominees for Canadian Screen Awards". CBC News, February 22, 2023.
4. Jackson Weaver, "BlackBerry, Sort Of, Little Bird dominate Canadian Screen Award nominations". CBC News, March 6, 2024.