Laurence Olivier Award - Best New Comedy

year	name	for
1976	Michael Frayn	Donkey's Years
1977	Peter Nichols	Privates on Parade
1980	Willy Russell	Educating Rita
1982	Michael Frayn	Noises Off
1985	Alan Ayckbourn	A Chorus of Disapproval
1986	J.B. Priestley	When We Are Married
1988	Willy Russell	Shirley Valentine
1990	Alan Bennett	Single Spies
1998	Yasmina Reza	'Art'
2009	Yasmina Reza	God of Carnage