Angela Bra was announced as the winner of the Takeover Radio 106.9/NCF Joke of the Festival with a presentation at the city’s Lord Roberts venue.

 

Her joke: “yesterday, a pupil in my class cheated at his homework by changing a subtraction symbol into an addition.  I’ve let this kind of cheating slide before but this time he’s really crossed a line” came out top of a poll of listeners of the Ashfield community radio station.

 

The joke was from ‘Angela Bra: Secret Diary of a Bingo Call Girl 2’, created as a follow up to this year’s successful Edinburgh Fringe show

  

Helen Stead, organiser of the Nottingham Comedy Festival since it’s creation 18 years ago, said: “Thanks to Takeover Radio 106.9 for once again running this great competition for us, it was especially great to see the nominations reflecting the wide range of performers and styles we’ve had across over 130 shows this year.

 

Angela was also a hit at last year’s festival, so winning this award has definitely established her as a Nottingham favourite. Part of this year’s prize includes free registration for next year’s festival, if you missed her, she’ll be back”.

 

As well as running the most valuable Joke of the Fringe competition in Edinburgh, this is the second year that Takeover Radio, a youth community radio station based in Ashfield in northwest Nottinghamshire, has run the NCF Joke of the Festival.

 

The competition was open to all performers at the festival and all styles of comedy, with a musical joke making the shortlist for the first time this year; with the winner selected by listeners online at  https://www.takeoverradiosutton.com/ and locally on 106.9FM.