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 | ||
|---|---|---|
| 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 Robert Llewellyn's Mammon The Wow Show |
| 1989 | Simon Fanshawe | John Hegley Al and George Will Durst Live Bed Show The World of Les and Robert |
| 1990 | Sean Hughes | Dillie Keane - Single Again Pete McCarthy - The Hangover Show Jimmy Tingle |
| 1991 | Frank Skinner | Avner The Eccentric Jack Dee Eddie Izzard Lily Savage |
| 1992 | Steve Coogan - In Character with John Thomson | Jo Brand Bruce Morton John Shuttleworth's Guide to Stardom Mark Thomas |
| 1993 | Lee Evans | Corky and the Juice Pigs Phil Kay Johnny Meres Donna McPhail Parrot Greg Proops |
| 1994 | Lano and Woodley | Alan Davies Jeff Green Harry Hill's Pub Internationale Owen O'Neill Robert Schimmel |
| 1995 | Jenny Eclair - Prozac & Tantrums | Simon Bligh - Banzai Scott Capurro - The Love and Affection Tour Boothby Graffoe The Umbilical Brothers - Heaven by Storm |
| 1996 | Dylan Moran | Alexander Armstrong and Ben Miller Bill Bailey Rich Hall Dominic Holland Al Murray |
| 1997 | The League of Gentlemen | Milton Jones Al Murray Graham Norton The Johnny Vegas Show |
| 1998 | Tommy Tiernan | Ed Byrne Seán Cullen Peter Kay Al Murray |
| 1999 | Al Murray - The Pub Landlord | Terry Alderton The Arctic Boosh Simon Munnery The League Against Tedium Ross Noble |
| 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 |
| 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 Epitaph Reginald D Hunter Sarah Kendall |
| 2005 | Laura Solon | Chris Addison Jason Manford Jeremy Lion Dutch Elm Conservatoire |
| 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 |
| Best Newcomer Award | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Winner | Nominees |
| 1992 | Harry Hill | |
| 1993 | Dominic Holland | |
| 1994 | Scott Capurro | |
| 1995 | Tim Vine - The Tim Vine Fiasco | |
| 1996 | Milton Jones | |
| 1997 | Arj Barker | |
| 1998 | The Mighty Boosh | |
| 1999 | Ben Willbond & Arnold Widdowson - Ben'n'Arn's Big Top | |
| 2000 | Noble & Silver | |
| 2001 | Garth Cruickshank & Eddie McCabe Let's Have a Right Royal Shambles | |
| 2002 | The Consultants | |
| 2003 | Gary Le Strange - Polaroid Suitcase | |
| 2004 | Wil Hodgson | |
| 2005 | Tim Minchin | |
| 2006 | Josie Long | |
| 2007 | Tom Basden | |
| 2008 | Sarah Millican | |
| 2009 | Jonny Sweet - Mostly About Arthur | |
| 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 |
| Panel Prize | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| 2012 | The Boy With Tape On His Face - More Tape |
| 2013 | Adrienne Truscott |
| 2014 | Funz and Gamez |
| 2015 | Karen Koren |
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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