The nominees for The Malcolm Hardee Awards 2024 have been revealed.

The awards – which are handed out in the memory of comic, agent, manager, club-owner and prankster Malcolm Hardee - celebrate and promote the spirit of anything-goes comedy anarchy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Comic Originality

10,000 Digits of Pi (performed by Vinay Sagar)

Banshee Labyrinth, 1:30am

The Duncan Brothers: Blood Sword

Underbelly Cowgate, 9:30pm

Elliot Wengler: Jokémon

City Café, 3:40pm

Garry Starr: Classic Penguins

Pleasance Courtyard, 8:30pm

Mark Dean Quinn: Oh No (That's Not Your Cheese)

Banshee Labyrinth, 1:50am

Nate Kitch: Tomorrow Might Not Happen; Now

Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 5:40pm

Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna

Assembly Roxy, 10pm

The Thermos Museum (performed by Neil Davidson)

PBH Satyr, 3:40pm

Cunning Stunt

Huge Davies

For tricking people using mock-up national press covers suggesting that he had been cancelled. (https://www.instagram.com/hugedavies/)

Luke Rollason

For hiding 100 loo rolls with his face on within the toilets at performer bars.

Thom Tuck

For performing at a different time and a different location every day, so the audience has to engage on social media to find out where and when the show is.

Tim Reeves

For creating a pastiche brochure that satirises different kinds of shows at the Fringe.

Act That Should Make a Million Quid

Dylan Mulvaney

Finlay Christie

Garry Starr

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The winners will be presented with trophies during the festival.

The Malcolm Hardee Awards have run since 2005, the year that Malcolm Hardee (pictured) died. The judging panel is comprised of Marissa Burgess, Kate Copstick, Bruce Dessau, Jay Richardson, Claire Smith and Ian Wolf.

More information and previous winners can be seen via the Hardee Awards website:

https://www.comedy.co.uk/hardees