Awards
The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025 have announced additional sponsors for all 5 Awards this year.
The ISH Awards involves a voluntary panel of judges seeing every eligible comedy show at the Fringe, where 100% of any sponsorship goes to the artists.
The 5 Awards all now have additional sponsorship of £500 and will be named this year after their sponsors. The 5 Awards and their sponsors are:
The Rhod Gilbert ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize
The Edinburgh Comedy Awards returns to celebrate 45 years of championing the next generation of comedic talent at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2025.
At a time when the Fringe remains the key launchpad for comedic careers, the role of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards in supporting emerging talent is more vital than ever.
The 2025 Edinburgh Comedy Awards are co-sponsored
Sixty finalists in the 19th annual Comedy.co.uk Awards have been announced today.
Smoggie Queens, Wallace & Gromit, Alma’s Not Normal, Inside No. 9 and Taskmaster are amongst the comedy programmes from 2024 that have made it through the first of two voting rounds, from all 346 automatically nominated television and radio titles that aired new episodes last year – down slightly from 351 in 2023.
The Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have just announced the Winners for Best Show, Best Newcomer and Panel Prize for 2024.
Best Show - Elf Lyons: Horses (pictured top)
Best Newcomer - Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows (pictured bottom)
Panel Prize - Joint Winners are Alex Petty, Best in Class, Dion Owen, Elaine Robertson and Funny Women Glitter Project
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 nominations for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards have been announced this afternoon.
The Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have just announced the nominees for Best Show and Best Newcomer for this year, 13 shows for Best Show and 10 for Best Newcomer on their website here.
Entries are now invited for this year's Edinburgh Fringe Comedy Poster Awards.
The Comedy Poster Awards celebrate the best artwork at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
First taking place in 2014, this competition was established by TV and live comedy producer Gina Lyons to celebrate the most popular and loved designs in poster artwork at the Fringe: from the idea, to the photo, to the finished artwork.
The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards is back at the Edinburgh Fringe for a second year with new sponsor Jones Bootmaker, becoming the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards. There will be three prizes of £5,000 each for Best Show (won last year jointly by Paul Foot and Julia Masli), Best Newcomer and Panel Prize, with 100% of the sponsorship going on the prizes.
Now in their 42nd year, ‘the Oscars of Comedy’ will light up the Edinburgh Fringe throughout August, spotlighting the next generation of comedic talent. The Edinburgh Comedy Awards continue to be the hallmark of comedy excellence and potential, with previous winners and nominees having 3088 screen credits between them.
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