Awards
The winners of this year’s ‘Oscars of Comedy’ have been announced at the 45th Edinburgh Comedy Awards ceremony.
Today, ‘the Oscars of Comedy’, the Edinburgh Comedy Awards has revealed the shortlist for the two biggest prizes in comedy: The Taffner Family Best Comedy Show and The DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer. Now celebrating their 45th year at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, the Awards have launched generations of comedic talent and remain the benchmark of excellence in the industry.
The Comedians’ Choice Awards is set to return to the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
There will be three awards:
Best Show - The best comedy show at the Fringe as voted by comedians.
Best Newcomer - The best debut hour of comedy at the Fringe as voted by comedians.
Comedian Barry Ferns has called for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards to recognise the fact that some performers at the Edinburgh Fringe have an unfair advantage over others when it comes to attracting the attention of the judges.
In an open letter to Awards director/founder Nica Burns Ferns calls for two main awards.
Read the full letter below:
Dear Nica Burns, Edinburgh Comedy Awards Producers and Panel,
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.
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