Beyond The Joke can exclusively reveal that comedy club Komedia is to launch the Komedia New Comedy Award, in association with Comic Boom and Victoria Nangle.

Marina Kobler (Komedia), Jill Edwards (Comic Boom) and Victoria Nangle (comedy critic) have combined forces to create this new award. The aim of the Komedia New Comedy Award is to continue to discover and support exciting new comic talent, and to offer opportunities for development.