THE LONG LIST, SHORT LIST & WINNERS
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ISH COMEDY AWARDS WINNERS 2023
The judges have voted for their winnners for Best Show and Best Newcomer - and both votes were tied - so the 2023 winners are joint winners in each category... BEST SHOW Julia Masli - ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Paul Foot - Dissolve BEST NEWCOMER Dan Tiernan - Going Under Fiona Ridgewell - No-Nonsense And the... PANEL PRIZE A Show for Gareth Richards - Mark Simmons and Danny Ward The winners received a magnificent tiny trophy, well in each case really half a trophy! Congratulations to the winners, to those short and long-listed and to everyone that had great shows at the EDINBURGH FRINGE 2023 - as we've said all along, you don't need us to tell you whether a comedy show is great, you just have to listen to the audience. See you next year... maybe! |
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ISH COMEDY AWARDS SHORT LISTS 2023
Choosing the short lists was seemingly harder than choosing the long lists, even though we all had to see far less shows this time! It was so hard that we were aiming for 10 for Best Show and ended up with 11. We know from talking to most of the long-listed shows that they are very happy to be long listed. As one person said, “I’m made up, I can use this forever’. That’s why we wanted to long-list early, to give people a boost in the middle of the Fringe, both in terms of ticket sales and more importantly emotionally. There’s a lot of artists on the panel of the ISH comedy awards and we understand this. We also understand that it’s tricky sometimes not to be nominated, or not to be considered because rules make something ineligible. We get that too, but we come back to what we’ve said all along – a fraction of people get nominated for anything, and it comes down to luck sometimes - as we said a prominent comedy critic gave lots of shows 4 and 5 star reviews that they didn’t nominate for the long-list. You know if the show is great - that’s the beauty of comedy, the audience tell us every day, and no Awards or reviews are bigger than word of mouth. All that said the judges have seen the long-listed shows an equal number of times, and... The votes are in - so here is, in alphabetical order, the short-list for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023, 11 for Best Show and 5 for Best Newcomer.
Choosing the short lists was seemingly harder than choosing the long lists, even though we all had to see far less shows this time! It was so hard that we were aiming for 10 for Best Show and ended up with 11. We know from talking to most of the long-listed shows that they are very happy to be long listed. As one person said, “I’m made up, I can use this forever’. That’s why we wanted to long-list early, to give people a boost in the middle of the Fringe, both in terms of ticket sales and more importantly emotionally. There’s a lot of artists on the panel of the ISH comedy awards and we understand this. We also understand that it’s tricky sometimes not to be nominated, or not to be considered because rules make something ineligible. We get that too, but we come back to what we’ve said all along – a fraction of people get nominated for anything, and it comes down to luck sometimes - as we said a prominent comedy critic gave lots of shows 4 and 5 star reviews that they didn’t nominate for the long-list. You know if the show is great - that’s the beauty of comedy, the audience tell us every day, and no Awards or reviews are bigger than word of mouth. All that said the judges have seen the long-listed shows an equal number of times, and... The votes are in - so here is, in alphabetical order, the short-list for the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2023, 11 for Best Show and 5 for Best Newcomer.
ISH COMEDY AWARDS SHORT LIST 2023
BEST SHOW
BEST SHOW
- Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time - Assembly
- Ian Smith: Crushing - Monkey Barrel
- Janine Harouni: Man'oushe - Pleasance
- Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - Monkey Barrel
- Luke Kempner in Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical - Pleasance
- Marjolein Robertson: Marj - The Stand
- Paul Currie: Shtoom - Just The Tonic
- Paul Foot: Dissolve - Underbelly
- Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show - Monkey Barrel
- Seymour Mace Does Drawring - The Stand
- Sid Singh: Table for One - Free Festival Cabaret Voltaire
ISH COMEDY AWARDS SHORT LIST 2023
BEST NEWCOMER
BEST NEWCOMER
- Dan Tiernan: Going Under - Monkey Barrel
- Fiona Ridgewell: No-Nonsense - PBH Free Fringe Banshee Labyrinth
- Kelly McCaughan: Catholic Guilt - Underbelly
- Lachlan Werner: Voices of Evil - Pleasance
- Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon - Pleasance
The third prize is the PANEL PRIZE - there are no nominees etc for this one, the judges have voted on anything else they wanted to give a prize to from all the amazing things happening on the Fringe.
Congratulations to all these shows! And now comes the trickiest thing of all, choosing the winners. But we also think... does it really matter who wins? ‘Everyone is a winner’ is said sometimes but I think here it’s actually the case – and funnily enough particularly if there is no big cash prize if we don’t get sponsorship. In some ways it doesn’t matter who wins now…ish. Hang on, of course it does! And there is still time to sponsor us, we wanted 20k but you know what we’ll take 10k now, with 2.5k going to each of the winners and 5k for the Panel Prize - we have voted on that and rest assured it is a very worthy cause! Come on people, industry, venues, comedy community, one of you is minted! See you on Saturday 26th August 1030am for the 40 minute ceremony with some very special performances from the long list and special guest host. If you’ve had any involvement with this just ask us for a comp via email, or if you’d like to support us and cover our few hundreds of pounds expenses for this exercise please buy a £8 ticket right here: https://freefestival.co.uk/show.aspx?showid=8153. Yes, please #seethisshow !!
Thank you!
Thank you!
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ISH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LISTS 2023
After seeing the eligible shows, the judges for the ISH awards recommended any they thought were exceptional for the 'Long List' below.
Here is, in alphabetical order, the...
After seeing the eligible shows, the judges for the ISH awards recommended any they thought were exceptional for the 'Long List' below.
Here is, in alphabetical order, the...
ISH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LIST 2023
BEST SHOW
BEST SHOW
- Aaron Simmonds: Baby Steps - Pleasance
- Aidan Jones: Adult Adoption - Free Festival Counting House
- Andrew O'Neill: Geburah - Monkey Barrel
- Ania Magliano: I Can't Believe You've Done This - Pleasance
- Attack of the 36 Triple-G Woman - Space @ Symposium Hall
- Cheekykita: An Octopus, The Universe 'n' Stuff - Free Festival The Three Sisters
- Daniel Kitson: First Thing - Summerhall
- David McIver: Small Boy Trapped in a Wellness Retreat - PBH Free Fringe Banshee Labyrinth
- Ed Byrne: Tragedy Plus Time - Assembly
- Eric Rushton: Not That Deep - Free Festival Cabaret Voltaire
- Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt - Assembly
- Gareth Mutch: Belter - The Stand
- Huge Davies: Whodunnit - Pleasance
- Ian Smith: Crushing - Monkey Barrel
- Janine Harouni: Man'oushe - Pleasance
- Jody Kamali: Things We Do for Love - Assembly
- Julia Masli: ha ha ha ha ha ha ha - Monkey Barrel
- Laser Kiwi: Rise of the Olive - Assembly
- Laura Davis: Well Don't Just Stand There Dancing - Monkey Barrel
- Luke Kempner in Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical - Pleasance
- Mark Nelson: Bits & Pieces - Monkey Barrel
- Marjolein Robertson: Marj - The Stand
- Max and Ivan: Life, Choices - Pleasance
- MC Hammersmith: Straight Outta Brompton - Monkey Barrel
- Milo Edwards: Sentimental - Monkey Barrel
- Paul Currie: Shtoom - Just The Tonic
- Paul Foot: Dissolve - Underbelly
- Paul Sinha: Pauly Bengali - The Stand's New Town Theatre
- Phil Ellis's Excellent Comedy Show - Monkey Barrel
- Phil Kay: Funny Walks - Just The Tonic
- Pierre Novellie - Why Are You Laughing? - Monkey Barrel
- Police Cops: The Musical - Assembly
- Seymour Mace Does Drawring - The Stand
- Sid Singh: Table for One - Free Festival Cabaret Voltaire
- Stuart Goldsmith: Spoilers - Monkey Barrel
ISH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LIST 2023
BEST NEWCOMER
BEST NEWCOMER
- Adrian Bliss: Inside Everyone - Pleasance
- Alexandra Haddow: Not My Finest Hour - Pleasance
- Alice Cockayne: I Showered Before I Came - Underbelly
- Andre de Freitas: What If - Pleasance
- Annabel Marlow: Is This OK? - Pleasance
- Dan Tiernan: Going Under - Monkey Barrel
- Fiona Ridgewell: No-Nonsense - PBH Free Fringe Banshee Labyrinth
- Hannah Camilleri: Lolly Bag - Assembly
- John Tothill: The Last Living Libertine - Pleasance
- Kathy Maniura: Objectified - Gilded Balloon
- Kelly McCaughan: Catholic Guilt - Underbelly
- Krystal Evans: The Hottest Girl at Burn Camp - Monkey Barrel
- Lachlan Werner: Voices of Evil - Pleasance
- Leila Navabi: Composition - Pleasance
- Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon - Pleasance
- Louise Young: Feral - Pleasance
- Moses Storm: Perfect Cult - Pleasance
- Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared - Pleasance
- Stu Murphy - Debut - Monkey Barrel
- Tadiwa Mahlunge: Inhibition Exhibition - Pleasance
So there we have it - The ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards Long and Short Lists! - please try to see as many of the above shows as possible over the final days of the Fringe, we got the long list out in the middle of the Fringe for that very purpose, to try to give everyone as much chance to see these exceptional shows (unless they are already sold out!). And as we say, just ask around what people have seen, they will be able to tell you better than we can what's great, and there's so much that's great on these lists, and importantly, not on these lists. Thanks to everyone for their incredible support in this process - judges, performers, PR, agents, venues and The Edinburgh Comedy Awards themselves - we have been blown away by the positivity and as we've always said, we're just doing our best here to promote and support the amazing artists of the EDINBURGH FRINGE. Good luck everyone, and stay tuned for the Winners on Sat 26th Aug!
