List of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards, formerly known as the Perrier Comedy Awards, the if.comedy awards and briefly as the if.comeddies, are a group of prizes awarded annually since 1981 to comedy shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Currently three awards are given – Best Comedy Show, Best Newcomer and the Panel Prize.
| Perrier Comedy Awards | ||
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| Year | Main Prize Winner | Main Prize Nominees |
| 1981 | Cambridge Footlights (Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Penny Dwyer and Paul Shearer) |
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| 1982 | Writer's Inc (Gary Adams, Steve Brown, Vicki Pile, Trevor McCallum, Helen Murry, Jamie Rix, and Nick Wilton, with additional material by Kim Fuller) |
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| 1983 | Los Trios Ringbarkus | |
| 1984 | The Brass Band | Fascinating Aïda Hank Wangford Band Frank Chickens The Bodgers Paul B Davies & Dave Cohen |
| 1985 | Theatre de Complicité | The Bodgers Merry Mac Fun Show John Dowie Sue Ingleton |
| 1986 | Ben Keaton | Paul B. Davies Roy Hutchins Jenny Lecoat Merry Mac Fun Show |
| 1987 | Brown Blues... Arnold Brown with Barb Jungr and Michael Parker | Nick Revell Jeremy Hardy Simon Fanshawe John Sparkes |
| 1988 | Jeremy Hardy | Doug Anthony Allstars Roy Hutchins - Whale Nation Robert Llewellyn's Mammon Robot Born of Woman The Wow Show |
| 1989 | Simon Fanshawe | John Hegley - Can I Come Down Now Dad? Al and George - Unscheduled Stop Will Durst Live Bed Show The World of Les and Robert |
| 1990 | Sean Hughes - A One Night Stand | Dillie Keane – Single Again Pete McCarthy – The Hangover Show Jimmy Tingle |
| 1991 | Frank Skinner | Avner The Eccentric Jack Dee Eddie Izzard - Just the Words Lily Savage - The Live Experience |
| 1992 | Steve Coogan – In Character with John Thomson | Jo Brand Bruce Morton - Sin John Shuttleworth's Guide to Stardom Mark Thomas |
| 1993 | Lee Evans | Corky and the Juice Pigs Phil Kay Johnny Meres - My Booze Hell by Little Johnny Cartilage Donna McPhail Parrot - Sick as a Parrot Greg Proops |
| 1994 | Lano and Woodley | Alan Davies Jeff Green Harry Hill's Pub Internationale with Al Murray Owen O'Neill - It’s a bit like this... Robert Schimmel |
| 1995 | Jenny Eclair – Prozac & Tantrums | Simon Bligh – Banzai Scott Capurro – The Love and Affection Tour Boothby Graffoe - The Love and Affection Tour The Umbilical Brothers – Heaven by Storm |
| 1996 | Dylan Moran - Dylan Moran is Indisposed | Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller - Armstrong and Miller: The Quality Shag Bill Bailey Rich Hall - Freewheelin Dominic Holland - Holland-Days Sauce Al Murray |
| 1997 | The League of Gentlemen | Milton Jones - Joyrider Al Murray - King of Beers Graham Norton - Charlie’s Angels go to Hell The Johnny Vegas Show |
| 1998 | Tommy Tiernan - Undivine Comedy | Ed Byrne - A Night at the Opera Seán Cullen - Wood, Cheese & Children Peter Kay Al Murray - Pub Landlord's Keeper of the Pint Cosmic |
| 1999 | Al Murray as The Pub Landlord - And a Glass of White Wine for the Lady | Terry Alderton The Arctic Boosh Simon Munnery as The League Against Tedium - Ubertechnocomedie Ross Noble - Laser Boy |
| 2000 | Rich Hall – Otis Lee Crenshaw | Dave Gorman – Are You Dave Gorman? Lee Mack's New Bits, with Lee Mack, Catherine Tate and Dan Antopolski Garth Marenghi's Fright Knight, with Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, and Alice Lowe Sean Lock - No Flatley, I am the Lord of the Dance |
| 2001 | Garth Marenghi's Netherhead, with Matthew Holness, Richard Ayoade, and Alice Lowe | Dan Antopolski – Antopolski 2000 Jason Byrne Adam Hills – Go You Big Red Fire Engine Daniel Kitson – Love, Innocence and the Word Cock |
| 2002 | Daniel Kitson – Something | Noel Fielding – Voodoo Hedgehog Jimmy Carr – Jimmy Carr's Bare Faced Ambition Omid Djalili – Behind Enemy Lines Phil Nichol – Things I Like, I Lick Adam Hills – Happy Feet |
| 2003 | Demetri Martin – If I... | Reginald D. Hunter – White Woman Adam Hills – Cut Loose Flight of the Conchords – High on Folk Howard Read and Little Howard – The Big Howard and Little Howard Show |
| 2004 | Will Adamsdale - Jackson's Way | Chris Addison - Civilisation Epitaph with Ethan Sandler and Adrian Wenner Reginald D Hunter - A Mystery Wrapped in a N***a Sarah Kendall |
| 2005 | Laura Solon - Kopfraper's Syndrome | Chris Addison - Atomicity Jason Manford - Urban Legend Jeremy Lion (AKA Justin Edwards) with George Cockerill - What’s the Time Mr Lion? Dutch Elm Conservatoire - Conspiracy |
| if.comedy awards (styled as if.comeddie for 2006) | ||
| Year | Main Prize Winner | Main Prize Nominees |
| 2006 | Phil Nichol – The Naked Racist | David O'Doherty – David O'Doherty Is My Name Russell Howard – Wandering Paul Sinha – Saint or Sinha? We Are Klang – Klangbang |
| 2007 | Brendon Burns – So I Suppose THIS is Offensive Now | Andrew Lawrence – Social Leprosy for Beginners and Improvers Andrew Maxwell – Waxin' Tom Binns – Ivan Brackenbury's Hospital Radio Roadshow Pappy's Fun Club – Pappy's Fun Club |
| 2008 | David O'Doherty – Let's Comedy | Rhod Gilbert – Rhod Gilbert and the Award-winning Mince Pie Russell Kane – Gaping Flaws Kristen Schaal and Kurt Braunohler – Double Down Hearts |
| Edinburgh Comedy Awards (known as the Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards since 2010) | ||
| Year | Main Prize Winner | Main Prize Nominees |
| 2009 | Tim Key – The Slutcracker | Idiots of Ants – This Is War John Bishop – Elvis Has Left the Building Jon Richardson – This Guy at Night Russell Kane – Human Dressage Tom Wrigglesworth – Tom Wrigglesworth's Open Return Letter to Richard Branson |
| 2010 | Russell Kane – Smokescreens and Castles | Bo Burnham – Words, Words, Words Greg Davies – Firing Cheeseballs at a Dog Josie Long – Be Honourable Sarah Millican: Chatterbox[1] |
| 2011 | Adam Riches – Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches | Andrew Maxwell – The Lights Are On Chris Ramsey – Offermation Josie Long – The Future Is Another Place Nick Helm – Dare to Dream Sam Simmons – Meanwhile [2] |
| 2012 | Doctor Brown – Befrdfgth | Claudia O'Doherty – The Telescope James Acaster – Prompt Josie Long – Romance and Adventure Pappy's – Last Show Ever! Tony Law – Maximum Nonsense |
| 2013 | Bridget Christie – A Bic for Her | Carl Donnelly – Now That's What I Carl Donnelly! Volume V James Acaster – Lawnmower Max & Ivan – The Reunion Mike Wozniak – Take The Hit Nick Helm – One Man Mega Myth Seann Walsh – The Lie-in King |
| 2014 | John Kearns – Shtick | Alex Horne – Monsieur Butterfly James Acaster – Recognise Liam Williams – Capitalism Romesh Ranganathan – Rom Wasn't Built in a Day Sam Simmons – Death of a Sails-Man Sara Pascoe – Sara Pascoe vs History |
| 2015 | Sam Simmons – Spaghetti for Breakfast | James Acaster – Represent Joseph Morpurgo – Soothing Sounds for Baby Kieran Hodgson – Lance Nish Kumar – Long Word. Long Word.. Blah Blah Blah.. I'm So Clever Sarah Kendall – A Day in October Seymour Mace – Seymour Mace is Niche as F**k! Trygve Wakenshaw – Nautilus |
| Edinburgh Comedy Awards (known as the lastminute.com Edinburgh Comedy Awards since 2016) | ||
| Year | Main Prize Winner | Main Prize Nominees |
| 2016 | Richard Gadd – Monkey See Monkey Do | Al Porter – At Large James Acaster – Reset Kieran Hodgson – Maestro Nish Kumar – Actions Speak Louder Than Words, Unless You Shout The Words Real Loud Randy Writes A Novel Tom Ballard – The World Keeps Happening Zoe Coombs Marr – Trigger Warning |
| Best Newcomer Award | |||
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| Year | Winner | Nominees | |
| 1992 | Harry Hill - Flies! | ||
| 1993 | Dominic Holland - Red Hot Dutch with Dominic | ||
| 1994 | Scott Capurro - Risk Gay | ||
| 1995 | Tim Vine – The Tim Vine Fiasco | ||
| 1996 | Milton Jones - The Head | ||
| 1997 | Arj Barker - Arj Barker's Letter to America | ||
| 1998 | The Mighty Boosh, with Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Rich Fulcher | Chris Addison Jason Byrne Jon Reed Paul Foot |
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| 1999 | Ben'n'Arn's Big Top, with Ben Willbond, Arnold Widdowson and Bernard Hughes | Infinite Number of Monkeys, with Tim FitzHigham and James Cary - Sketch Comedy of Hypotheticals The Arthur Dung Show, with Dave Lamb and Jim North Wil Anderson - Wilennium |
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| 2000 | Noble & Silver | Andrew Clover - A Man of Substance in a World of Filth Dan Antopolski - Second Coming David O'Doherty - David O'Doherty's The Boy Who Saved Comedy |
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| 2001 | Garth Cruickshank & Eddie McCabe Let's Have a Right Royal Shambles | Andy Zaltzman - Andy Zaltzman versus the Dog of Doom, with John Oliver Cambridge Footlights - Far too Happy, with Edward Jaspers, Tim Key, Day Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson and Sophie Winkleman Danny Bhoy |
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| 2002 | The Consultants - Finger in the Wind | Hal Cruttenden Natalie Haynes Reginald D. Hunter |
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| 2003 | Gary Le Strange – Polaroid Suitcase | Alex Horne - Making Fish Laugh with Tim Key Michael McIntyre Miles Jupp - Gentlemen Prefer Brogues |
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| 2004 | Wil Hodgson - The Passion Of The Hodgson | Alun Cochrane - My Favourite Words in My Favourite Stories Joanna Neary - Joanna Neary is not feeling herself Sabotage: In Fine Form, aka Shenoah Allen and Mark Shavez |
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| 2005 | Tim Minchin - Dark Side | Charlie Pickering - Betterman Mark Watson - 50 years before I die Rhod Gilbert - Rhod Gilbert's 1984 Toulson and Harvey, aka Stephen Harvey and Luke Toulson |
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| 2006 | Josie Long - Kindness & Exuberance | Fat Tongue with Sophie Black, Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri Burns God's Pottery - Concert for Lavert Russell Kane - Russell Kane's Theory of Pretension |
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| 2007 | Tom Basden - Won't Say Anything | Jon Richardson - Spatula Pad Micky Flanagan - What Chance Change? Zoe Lyons - Fight or Flight |
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| 2008 | Sarah Millican - Sarah Millican's Not Nice | Mike Wozniak Pippa Evans |
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| 2009 | Jonny Sweet – Mostly About Arthur | Carl Donnelly - Relax Everyone, It's Carl Donnelly! Jack Whitehall - Nearly Rebellious Kevin Bridges - An Hour to Sing for Your Soul Pete Johansson - Naked Pictures of My Life |
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| 2010 | Roisin Conaty – Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar | An Audience with Imran Yusuf Asher Treleaven – Secret Door Gareth Richards – Stand Up Between Songs Late Night Gimp Fight! The Boy With Tape on His Face | |
| 2011 | Humphrey Ker – Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher | Cariad Lloyd – Lady Cariad's Characters The Chris and Paul Show Hannibal Buress – My Name is Hannibal – The Hannibal Montanabal Experience Josh Widdicombe – If This Show Changes One Life Holly Walsh – Hollycopter Thom Tuck – Thom Tuck Goes Straight-to-DVD Totally Tom | |
| 2012 | Daniel Simonsen – Champions | David Trent – Spontaneous Comedian Discover Ben Target Joe Lycett – Some Lycett Hot Sam Fletcher – Good on Paper | |
| 2013 | John Kearns – Sight Gags For Perverts | Aisling Bea – C'est La Bea Liam Williams Matt Okine – Being Black & Chicken & S#%t Romesh Ranganathan – Rom Com | |
| 2014 | Alex Edelman – Millennial | Dane Baptiste – Citizen Dane Gein's Family Giftshop – Gein's Family Giftshop Volume 1 Lazy Susan – Extreme Humans Lucy Beaumont – We Can Twerk it Out Steen Raskopoulos – I'm Wearing Two Suits Because I Mean Business | |
| 2015 | Sofie Hagen – Bubblewrap | Adam Hess – Salmon Daphne – Daphne Do Edinburgh Larry Dean – Out Now! John Henry Falle – The Story Beast Tom Ballard – Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred Tom Parry – Yellow T-shirt | |
| 2016 | Scott Gibson – Life After Death | Bilal Zafar – Cakes Brennan Reece – Everglow Jayde Adams – 31 Michelle Wolf – So Brave Nath Valvo – Happy Idiot | |
| Panel Prize | |
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| Year | Winner |
| 2006 | Mark Watson |
| 2007 | Arthur Smith |
| 2008 | All the performers |
| 2009 | Peter Buckley Hill – Peter Buckley Hill Free Fringe |
| 2010 | Bo Burnham |
| 2011 | The Wrestling - Max & Ivan |
| 2012 | The Boy With Tape On His Face – More Tape |
| 2013 | Adrienne Truscott |
| 2014 | Funz and Gamez |
| 2015 | Karen Koren |
| 2016 | Iraq Out & Loud: Reading the Chilcot Report in Full |
See also
References
- ↑ "Two women make the shortlist". Chortle. 25 August 2010. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
- ↑ "Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2011 – past winners". Fosters. 20 September 2011. Retrieved 2011-09-20.
External links
- Edinburgh Comedy Awards (Official Website)
- TV clip of sketch from the Cambridge Footlights 1981 show
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