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Edinburgh Comedy Awards

Index Edinburgh Comedy Awards

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards or Eddies (formerly the Perrier Comedy Awards, and also briefly known by other names for sponsorship reasons) are presented to the comedy shows deemed to have been the best at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. [1]

53 relations: Absolute Radio, Alan Davies, Alexander Armstrong, Alternative comedy, BBC News, Ben Miller, Bob Slayer, Brendon Burns (comedian), Chicago, Chris Addison, Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Emma Thompson, Fest Magazine, Footlights, Foster's Lager, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Hannah Gadsby, Hugh Laurie, Intelligent Finance, International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes, John Robins (comedian), Just for Laughs, Lastminute.com, Lee Evans (comedian), List of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners, Matthew Holness, Milton Jones, Mock the Week, Montreal, Natalie Palamides, Nestlé, Nestlé boycott, Nica Burns, Oxbridge, Perrier, Peter Buckley Hill, QI, Richard Ayoade, Robert Newman (comedian), Rowan Atkinson, Scotland, Stephen Fry, Steve Coogan, Stewart Lee, The Independent, The Oxford Revue, The Pleasance, The Scotsman, The Skinny (magazine), TheGuardian.com, ..., Tony Slattery, Toronto, United Kingdom. Expand index (3 more) »

Absolute Radio

Absolute Radio (originally Virgin Radio) is one of the UK's three Independent National Radio stations.

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Alan Davies

Alan Roger Davies ("Davis"; born 6 March 1966) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor.

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Alexander Armstrong

Alexander Henry Fenwick Armstrong (born 2 March 1970) is an English comedian, actor, television presenter and bass baritone singer, best known as one half of the comedy duo Armstrong and Miller and as host of the BBC TV game show Pointless.

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Alternative comedy

Alternative comedy is a term coined in the 1980s for a style of comedy that makes a conscious break with the mainstream comedic style of an era but can also be found in cartoons.

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BBC News

BBC News is an operational business division of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) responsible for the gathering and broadcasting of news and current affairs.

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Ben Miller

Bennet Evan "Ben" Miller (born 24 February 1966) is an English comedian, actor and director.

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Bob Slayer

Bob Slayer is an Edinburgh Comedy Award winning comedian, promoter and bus driver.

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Brendon Burns (comedian)

Brendon Burns (born 19 April 1971) is an Australian stand-up comedian and author who mostly performs in the UK.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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Chris Addison

Christopher David Addison (born 5 November 1971) is an English comedian, writer, actor and director from Manchester.

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Edinburgh Festival Fringe

The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (often referred to as simply The Fringe) is the world's largest arts festival, which in 2017 spanned 25 days and featured 53,232 performances of 3,398 shows in 300 venues.

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Emma Thompson

Dame Emma Thompson, DBE (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter.

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Fest Magazine

Fest Magazine is an Edinburgh-based arts magazine that publishes during the Edinburgh Festival each year.

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Footlights

Cambridge University Footlights Dramatic Club, commonly referred to simply as the Footlights, is an amateur theatrical club in Cambridge, England, founded in 1883 and run by the students of Cambridge University.

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Foster's Lager

Foster's Lager is an internationally distributed brand of lager with its origin in Australia.

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Garth Marenghi's Darkplace

Garth Marenghi's Darkplace is a British horror parody television series created for Channel 4 by Richard Ayoade and Matthew Holness.

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Hannah Gadsby

Hannah Gadsby is an Australian comedian and writer.

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Hugh Laurie

James Hugh Calum Laurie, (born 11 June 1959) is an English actor, director, musician, comedian, and author.

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Intelligent Finance

Intelligent Finance (IF) is a Scottish offset bank, a division of Bank of Scotland plc which is part of Lloyds Banking Group.

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International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes

The International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes (also known as the WHO Code) is an international health policy framework for breastfeeding promotion adopted by the World Health Assembly (WHA) of the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1981.

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John Robins (comedian)

John Robins (born 4 May 1982).

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Just for Laughs

Just for Laughs (Juste pour rire) is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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Lastminute.com

lastminute.com is an online travel and leisure retailer.

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Lee Evans (comedian)

Lee John Martin Evans (born 25 February 1964) is an English retired stand-up comedian, actor, musician and writer from Avonmouth, England.

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List of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards, formerly known as the Perrier Comedy Awards, the if.comedy awards and briefly as the if.comeddies, are a group of prizes awarded annually since 1981 to comedy shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

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Matthew Holness

Matthew James Holness (born 1975) is an English comedian and actor.

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Milton Jones

Milton Hywel Jones (born 16 May 1964) is an English comedian.

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Mock the Week

Mock the Week is a British topical, satirical celebrity panel show, that was created by Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson, the same people responsible for the comedy game show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.

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Montreal

Montreal (officially Montréal) is the most populous municipality in the Canadian province of Quebec and the second-most populous municipality in Canada.

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Natalie Palamides

Natalie Palamides is an American actress, comedian and writer who has been known for appearing on BuzzFeed.

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Nestlé

Nestlé S.A. is a Swiss transnational food and drink company headquartered in Vevey, Vaud, Switzerland.

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Nestlé boycott

A boycott was launched in the United States on July 7, 1977, against the Swiss-based Nestlé corporation.

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Nica Burns

Lounica Maureen Patricia "Nica" Burns OBE (born August 1954) is a London theatre producer and co-owner with her business partner Max Weitzenhoffer of the Nimax Theatres group, comprising six West End theatres: the Palace, Lyric, Apollo, Garrick, Vaudeville and Duchess.

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Oxbridge

Oxbridge is a portmanteau of "Oxford" and "Cambridge"; the two oldest, most prestigious, and consistently most highly-ranked universities in the United Kingdom.

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Perrier

Perrier is a French brand of natural bottled mineral water captured at the source in Vergèze, located in the Gard département.

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Peter Buckley Hill

Peter Buckley Hill (born 3 March 1948) is a musical comedian and head of the Free Fringe at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, for which he was, in 2009, awarded the Panellists' Edinburgh Comedy Award.

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QI

QI (Quite Interesting) is a British comedy panel game television quiz show created and co-produced by John Lloyd, and features permanent panelist Alan Davies.

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Richard Ayoade

Richard Ellef Ayoade (born 12 June 1977) is a British actor, comedian, writer, director and television presenter.

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Robert Newman (comedian)

Robert "Rob" Newman (born 7 July 1964) is a British comedian, author and political activist.

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Rowan Atkinson

Rowan Sebastian Atkinson, CBE (born 6 January 1955) is an English actor, comedian, and screenwriter best known for his work on the sitcoms Blackadder and Mr. Bean.

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Scotland

Scotland (Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom and covers the northern third of the island of Great Britain.

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Stephen Fry

Stephen John Fry (born 24 August 1957) is an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist.

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Steve Coogan

Stephen John Coogan (born 14 October 1965) is an English actor, stand-up comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, and producer.

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Stewart Lee

Stewart Graham Lee (born 5 April 1968) is an English stand-up comedian, writer and director.

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The Independent

The Independent is a British online newspaper.

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The Oxford Revue

The Oxford Revue is a comedy group featuring students from Oxford University, England.

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The Pleasance

The Pleasance is a theatre, bar, sports and recreation complex in Edinburgh, Scotland, situated on a street of the same name.

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The Scotsman

The Scotsman is a Scottish compact newspaper and daily news website headquartered in Edinburgh.

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The Skinny (magazine)

The Skinny is a 72-page monthly and bi-monthly publication distributed in approximately 1,450 establishments throughout the cities of Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow in Scotland and Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds in the north of England.

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TheGuardian.com

TheGuardian.com, formerly known as Guardian.co.uk and Guardian Unlimited, is a British news and media website owned by the Guardian Media Group.

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Tony Slattery

Tony Declan James Slattery (born 9 November 1959), is an English actor and comedian.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Comedy_Awards

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