Amused Moose Comedy has announced the winners of the Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023 for their outstanding Fringe comedy shows.

Shona McCarthy and Lyndsey Jackson, CEO and Deputy CEO of the Edinburgh Fringe, presented the Moose trophies to the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2023 winners:     

• DAVE BIBBY: BABY DINOSAUR (PBH Free Fringe, @ Banshee Labyrinth)
  Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023's Most Fun Edinburgh Fringe comedy show
   
• LOUISE ATKINSON: MATES (Gilded Balloon, Teviot)
  Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023's Best Debut Edinburgh Fringe comedy show
   
• SIMON DAVID: DEAD DAD SHOW (Underbelly, Bristo Sq)
  Amused Moose Comedy Awards 2023's Most Entertaining Edinburgh Fringe comedy show

Full list of nominees here.

Rosie Nicholls of 2022's Best Sketch Show winner says "Winning the Amused Moose Comedy Awards raised our profile, brought us critical attention plus a huge increase in sales for our show this year, as well as touring our debut show.  It's an invaluable stamp of legitimacy"

Amused Moose Comedy Awards is the only awards on the Edinburgh Fringe which focuses on discovering brilliant though unknown comedy performers resident in UK/RoI, who do not yet have comedy agents and whose shows have not won any major comedy awards nor performed at comedy's "stepping stone" Soho Theatre.  Amused Moose Comedy Awards is the ‘senior strand’ of the Amused Moose comedy competitions.

Pictures: Roland Saunders