Edinburgh Comedy Awards
The nominees for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards were announced today. Having written a blog yesterday saying that stand-up comedy should not be reduced to pithy one liners, I feel compelled to point out that it also shouldn't be a competition with winners and losers. But I've space to fill and if it provides a career fillip for certain people then surely that's no bad thing.
I'm particularly pleased for Ahir Shah, who I've seen at the last two festivals and is developing into a top class comedian, adding strong jokes to his polemical style. I saw Spencer Jones in preview and he's someone else who deserves to be recognised for his terrific brand of prop comedy silliness. Likewise John Robins, whose post-breakup show was very good indeed. I didn't get round to Mat Ewins or Jordan Brookes, both of whom have been the subject of a great deal of word of mouth buzz.
It seems exceedingly strange to me that the panel have ignored Joseph Morpurgo, whose brilliantly crafted multimedia hour was the best thing I saw this festival. I sense that Hannah Gadsby will probably walk off with the award for her show "Nanette", which I really wanted to see but failed to get my shit together in time. She's said she's going to quit comedy so I don't know whether a London run will be on the cards but I hope so.
I'm not tremendously familiar with the work of the "Best Newcomer" nominees, other than a fair few of my friends giving a lot of love for Rob Kemp's show "The Elvis Dead". The award seems destined to go to Lauren Pattison though. I correctly called Richard Gadd as the winner of the main award last year. So it's a Gadsby/Pattison double I suspect.
I'm particularly pleased for Ahir Shah, who I've seen at the last two festivals and is developing into a top class comedian, adding strong jokes to his polemical style. I saw Spencer Jones in preview and he's someone else who deserves to be recognised for his terrific brand of prop comedy silliness. Likewise John Robins, whose post-breakup show was very good indeed. I didn't get round to Mat Ewins or Jordan Brookes, both of whom have been the subject of a great deal of word of mouth buzz.
It seems exceedingly strange to me that the panel have ignored Joseph Morpurgo, whose brilliantly crafted multimedia hour was the best thing I saw this festival. I sense that Hannah Gadsby will probably walk off with the award for her show "Nanette", which I really wanted to see but failed to get my shit together in time. She's said she's going to quit comedy so I don't know whether a London run will be on the cards but I hope so.
I'm not tremendously familiar with the work of the "Best Newcomer" nominees, other than a fair few of my friends giving a lot of love for Rob Kemp's show "The Elvis Dead". The award seems destined to go to Lauren Pattison though. I correctly called Richard Gadd as the winner of the main award last year. So it's a Gadsby/Pattison double I suspect.
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