Irish comedians win big at The British Comedy Awards

Chris O'Dowd,Brendan O'Carroll and Aisling Bea are celebrating their wins at the annual British Comedy Awards.

Chris O'Dowd series Moone Boy took home the award for Best Sitcom, and Mrs Brown’s Boys creator Brendan O’Carroll was announced the winner of the Writers Guild of Great Britain award.

The hilarious Cork native Graham Norton took home two awards, including Best Comedy Entertainment Personality.

Thanks for all the #BritishComedyAwards love! Thrilled/incredulous to have won two. Sorry to miss it. Huge congratulations to all winners!

— graham norton (@grahnort) December 17, 2014

An award well deserved - sure what else would we be doing with our Friday nights?

Aisling Bea from Kildare was presented with Best Female TV Comic for her role in 8 out of 10 Cats.

After her win at the Wednesday night awards she quickly took to Twitter and thanked people for their well wishes in this witty tweet.

Aisling is also is a regular on shows such as IQ and Never Mind the Buzzcocks.

See her in action here: