The Gilded Balloon
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The Gilded Balloon is one of the Edinburgh Fringe's best-known venues, currently located at Teviot Row House in Bristo Square (owned by the Edinburgh University Students' Association).
[edit] History
The Gilded Balloon was established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate. In 1989 it devised the competition "'So You Think You’re Funny?", which has been won by many notable comics including Rhona Cameron, Lee Mack, Dylan Moran, Tommy Tiernan and Peter Kay. The competition was sponsored by Channel 4 from 1993 until 2004, with five and the Paramount Comedy Channel taking over in 2005. [1]
In 2001 the Gilded Balloon expanded to its current home at Teviot Row House. On 7 December 2002, a fire devastated the Balloon's Cowgate base. The legacy of the Gilded Balloon continues at Teviot Row House [2] which in 2005 contained seven performance spaces.
