Empire Award for Best Comedy is an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine '' Empire '' to honor the best comedy film of the previous year . The Empire Award for Best Comedy is one of four new Best Film ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 11th Empire Awards ceremony in 2006 ( along with Best Horror , Best Sci-Fi/Fantasy and Best Thriller ) with '' Team America : World Police '' receiving the award . '' The Greasy Strangler '' is the most recent winner in this category . Winners are voted by the readers of '' Empire '' magazine
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Empire Award for Best Comedy