TV channel Dave has announced the winner of the eighth annual award for Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe.
In his first ever full length show, Edinburgh pun-dit Darren Walsh has this year come top with 23% of respondents voting “I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free” their funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe. Previous acclaimed winners include Tim Vine, Rob Auton, Stewart Francis, Zoe Lyons and Nick Helm.
The nominations for this year's Malcolm Hardee Awards have just been announced. They are as follows:
Katie Hopkins is to appear at the Edinburgh Fringe to take Dr Philip 'Dr Death' Nitschke's euthanasia machine for a test drive.
In July Hopkins advocated the introduction of euthanasia vans to deal with the problem of ‘too many old people’.
Hopkins will be having a go on Dr Death’s Destiny Euthanasia Machine, which delivers 100% pure nitrogen. She will be encouraged to press the ‘Yes' button to the question 'Do you want to die?'
This year’s Edinburgh Fringe seems to be wide open when it comes to awards. Is a newcomer going to win the main Foster’s Award? And if so who? Meanwhile the first major Fringe comedy competition may – or may not – have offered some hints with a final that featured an intriguing mix of newcomers and familiar names.
Richard Gadd has been crowned winner of the Amused Moose Comedy Award 2015. Musical impressionist Jess Robinson was voted People's Champion at the grand final at the Space @ Symposium Hall.
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Comedians are always on the lookout for experiences that they can turn into an Edinburgh show. For Diane Spencer that inspirational experience was an Edinburgh show in the first place. Power Tool is the story of her writing Nancy Dell’Olio’s so-bad-it-was-hilarious 2014 Fringe debut juxtaposed with the trauma of doing up a new house that turned into the renovation-from-hell.
There is so much competition for audiences in Edinburgh it helps to have a unique selling point. In the past, Abnormally Funny People, the floating ensemble made up of comedians with various disabilities now celebrating its tenth anniversary, could have cornered their market. But in 2015 disability has been prominent on the Fringe, particularly performers exploring mental health issues onstage. But that doesn’t stop AFP from being very funny.
Cricketer Freddie Flintoff is to present the 2015 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards alongside the 2014 Award winner, John Kearns.
The winners will be announced on Saturday 29 August at a lunchtime ceremony held at Edinburgh’s Dovecot Studios. The shortlist will be announced on Wednesday 26 August.
Flintoff said: I’m excited about being asked to present the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award as I debut my first ever show at the Edinburgh Fringe. I never thought I’d get to perform alongside so many of my comedy heroes."
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George Egg is surely not the first cook to appear at the Fringe. Ainsley Harriott probably did Edinburgh as part of his double act The Calypso Twins. But Egg must be the first cook to knock up a three-course meal onstage. Certainly the first one to prepare it using bog standard hotel equipment.
Catherine Tate is to return to TV. She will star in a new one-off comedy being made for Gold entitled Do Not Disturb set in a boutique hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon.
Tate will be joined by Miles Jupp and Car Share’s Sian Gibson. Do Not Disturb is due to be broadcast from January 2016. It focuses on estranged husband and wife Anna (Tate) and John (Jupp), who attempt reconciliation talks after her extra marital affair with a much younger man.
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