THE LONG LIST, SHORT LIST & WINNERS
The Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards have just announced the Winners for Best Show, Best Newcomer and Panel Prize for 2024.
Best Show - Elf Lyons: Horses
Best Newcomer - Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
Panel Prize - Joint Winners are Alex Petty, Best in Class, Dion Owen, Elaine Robertson and Funny Women Glitter Project
Each prize is £5,000 and a year’s supply of shoes from sponsors Jones Bootmaker. The Panel Prize was split equally between the 5 Winners. 100% of the sponsorship from Jones Bootmaker went on the prizes. The Awards are run solely by volunteers who saw every eligible show at the Fringe (around 700 shows)
Best Show - Elf Lyons: Horses
Best Newcomer - Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows
Panel Prize - Joint Winners are Alex Petty, Best in Class, Dion Owen, Elaine Robertson and Funny Women Glitter Project
Each prize is £5,000 and a year’s supply of shoes from sponsors Jones Bootmaker. The Panel Prize was split equally between the 5 Winners. 100% of the sponsorship from Jones Bootmaker went on the prizes. The Awards are run solely by volunteers who saw every eligible show at the Fringe (around 700 shows)
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Here are the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards nominees for Best Show and Best Newcomer for 2024, 13 shows for Best Show and 10 for Best Newcomer. All are still in the running for the £5,000 in prizes each for these two Awards plus there is a £5,000 Panel Prize. 100% of the sponsorship from Jones Bootmaker goes on the prizes to support artists, the shows are judged by around 30 volunteers who were at the Fringe anyway. There were around 700 eligible shows this year (full eligibility criteria and judging process via this website).
Here is, in alphabetical order, the...
JONES BOOTMAKER ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS NOMINEES 2024
BEST SHOW
JONES BOOTMAKER ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS NOMINEES 2024
BEST SHOW
- Alfie Brown: Open Hearted Human Enquiry - Just The Tonic 23:35
- Amy Gledhill: Make Me Look Fit on the Poster - Monkey Barrel 18:10
- Ashley Haden: Political and Correct - Free Festival (Counting House) 18:00
- Colin Hoult: Colin - Pleasance 20:20
- David Eagle: The Eagle is Candid - Just The Tonic 21:30
- Elf Lyons: Horses - Pleasance 21:20
- Gareth Mutch - Modern Man - The Stand 18:50
- Jordan Brookes: Fontanelle - Pleasance 20:30
- Mark Thomas: Gaffa Tapes - The Stand 18:30
- Mat Ewins: Some You Lose Some - Monkey Barrel 21:15
- Phil Ellis: Come On and Take The Rest of Me - Monkey Barrel 12:45
- Raul Kohli: Raul Britannia - Just the Tonic 18:30
- Seymour Mace - Seymour F*cking Mace You C*nts! - The Stand 12:10
BEST NEWCOMER
- Abby Wambaugh: The First 3 Minutes of 17 Shows - Pleasance 19:15
- Caitriona Dowden is Holier Than Thou - PBH Free Fringe (Banshee Labyrinth) 12:50
- Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism - Pleasance 20:10
- Henry Rowley: Just Literally - Pleasance 19:30
- Joe Kent-Walters is Frankie Monroe: LIVE - Monkey Barrel 23:25
- Kemah Bob: Miss Fortunate - Pleasance 19:05
- Mark Bittlestone: I Need a Straight Guy - Pleasance 21:40
- Mhairi Black: Politics Isn't For Me - Gilded Balloon 13:15
- Peter Bazeley: Ahh I Appear to Be Having a Breakdown - Free Festival (Three Sisters) 5pm
- Runi Talwar as 'Runi Talwar' in Runi Talwar: The Runi Talwar Story - Pleasance 20:40
PANEL PRIZE
Announcing the 5 Nominees for the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize this year. We are using these nominations to highlight the incredible support that these individuals and organisations give to artists and others at the Fringe.
Alex Petty In addition to honouring the 20 years of supporting artists at the Free Festival, creating a supportive environment where all artists whatever their financial status can feel that the Fringe is affordable and they can make a profit, Alex this year has introduced a neurodiversity hub at Bar 50 and for the second year helped the Imibala Trust bringing ‘Yes-Ya-Yebo’ to Edinburgh with support from Pear Tree Owners and manager Brian.
Best in Class was founded by comedian Sian Davies, who was fed up of class, money and social status being used as a barrier to performing. The project has enabled a number of working class comedians to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. The comedians work tirelessly in the run up to the festival to crowdfund the costs involved with taking a show to the fringe. Crucially, none of the acts pay to participate and they all receive payment for the work they do.
Dion Owen runs the Cyclopath Free Fringe Bike Program, which aims to provide artists attending the Fringe with a bike, completely free of charge, for the duration of the festival. Dion was here 10 days before the Fringe, volunteering his time to refurbish the bikes. He started the program in 2023 with 50 bikes and this has grown this year to 70. This year Dion has received some financial support from The Fringe Society and The Pear Tree which enabled the employment of an additional mechanic.
Elaine Robertson is one of the artists who in response to the rising costs of accommodation has been living in a tent out near the airport. The cost of the grass square area to put her tent on this year was £700. That was the price of a room here only a few years ago. Elaine is just one of the people doing this - she is a great comedian and also a Community worker helping people in the North East - so we are nominating an individual but by doing this highlighting the expense of accommodation and the burden that has put on so many this year.
Funny Women Glitter Project has been set up as a tribute to our friend, colleague and non-executive director of Funny Women, Jo Fletcher-Cross to offer support to women and non-binary artists bringing their first show to the Fringe, whether this is mentoring or help with expenses, Funny Women and the Glitter Project is there for you. Funny Women have spent 22 years supporting and developing new comedy talent at grassroots with ground-breaking awards, workshops, courses and open mic events. The priority has always been to build confidence in female performers, writers and creators to give them the opportunity to pursue comedy careers.
The winner and prize of £5000 courtesy of our amazing Sponsor Jones Bootmaker will be announced at the ceremony on Friday night.
Announcing the 5 Nominees for the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Award Panel Prize this year. We are using these nominations to highlight the incredible support that these individuals and organisations give to artists and others at the Fringe.
Alex Petty In addition to honouring the 20 years of supporting artists at the Free Festival, creating a supportive environment where all artists whatever their financial status can feel that the Fringe is affordable and they can make a profit, Alex this year has introduced a neurodiversity hub at Bar 50 and for the second year helped the Imibala Trust bringing ‘Yes-Ya-Yebo’ to Edinburgh with support from Pear Tree Owners and manager Brian.
Best in Class was founded by comedian Sian Davies, who was fed up of class, money and social status being used as a barrier to performing. The project has enabled a number of working class comedians to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe. The comedians work tirelessly in the run up to the festival to crowdfund the costs involved with taking a show to the fringe. Crucially, none of the acts pay to participate and they all receive payment for the work they do.
Dion Owen runs the Cyclopath Free Fringe Bike Program, which aims to provide artists attending the Fringe with a bike, completely free of charge, for the duration of the festival. Dion was here 10 days before the Fringe, volunteering his time to refurbish the bikes. He started the program in 2023 with 50 bikes and this has grown this year to 70. This year Dion has received some financial support from The Fringe Society and The Pear Tree which enabled the employment of an additional mechanic.
Elaine Robertson is one of the artists who in response to the rising costs of accommodation has been living in a tent out near the airport. The cost of the grass square area to put her tent on this year was £700. That was the price of a room here only a few years ago. Elaine is just one of the people doing this - she is a great comedian and also a Community worker helping people in the North East - so we are nominating an individual but by doing this highlighting the expense of accommodation and the burden that has put on so many this year.
Funny Women Glitter Project has been set up as a tribute to our friend, colleague and non-executive director of Funny Women, Jo Fletcher-Cross to offer support to women and non-binary artists bringing their first show to the Fringe, whether this is mentoring or help with expenses, Funny Women and the Glitter Project is there for you. Funny Women have spent 22 years supporting and developing new comedy talent at grassroots with ground-breaking awards, workshops, courses and open mic events. The priority has always been to build confidence in female performers, writers and creators to give them the opportunity to pursue comedy careers.
The winner and prize of £5000 courtesy of our amazing Sponsor Jones Bootmaker will be announced at the ceremony on Friday night.
Jones Bootmaker ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LISTS 2024
After seeing the eligible shows, the judges for the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards recommended any they thought were exceptional for the 2024 'Long Lists' below. As last year, this is by no way a list of everything that is exceptional at the Edinburgh Fringe. As we all know being judged as well as judging is hard and unscientific, but our main rule was did the show make the audience and/or judge laugh lots on the day we saw it and do we think it could be judged as the best show or the best newcomer on the Fringe (full judging criteria on this site). That's quite a high bar of course. Not everyone can win and be nominated, and not being on these lists doesn't mean your show isn't great, we saw a lot of great shows that aren't on this list as we need to keep the list down and make the cut somewhere - and there's always a chance that we saw your show on the wrong day for you (doesn't that always happen?!) but we did see many shows multiple times to try to offset that - in short, we did our very best!
So, we repeat, this list obviously does not represent by any means the definitive list of what is great at the Fringe, it's just our panel of judges' opinions, and at the end of the day you will hear much better from the streets and word of mouth what to see, always listen to the streets rather than awards and reviews! And we hope that you're kind to us as you were in droves last year - we are doing this purely as volunteers, and we have 100% of the £15,000 on prizes going straight to the artists. It takes many hours and we do our best, often we pay for tickets for the shows to further support the artists and thank you again for all the venue's support helping us in with free tickets when we've needed it - thank you! We now have the almost impossible job of getting this down to a list of 5 for the two short-lists which will be released on the morning of Aug 21st. And there's always the Panel Prize of course - have you been overlooked for something amazing you're doing at the Fringe, something extraordinary you're doing artistically or something where you're helping other artists - do let us know!
After seeing the eligible shows, the judges for the Jones Bootmaker ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards recommended any they thought were exceptional for the 2024 'Long Lists' below. As last year, this is by no way a list of everything that is exceptional at the Edinburgh Fringe. As we all know being judged as well as judging is hard and unscientific, but our main rule was did the show make the audience and/or judge laugh lots on the day we saw it and do we think it could be judged as the best show or the best newcomer on the Fringe (full judging criteria on this site). That's quite a high bar of course. Not everyone can win and be nominated, and not being on these lists doesn't mean your show isn't great, we saw a lot of great shows that aren't on this list as we need to keep the list down and make the cut somewhere - and there's always a chance that we saw your show on the wrong day for you (doesn't that always happen?!) but we did see many shows multiple times to try to offset that - in short, we did our very best!
So, we repeat, this list obviously does not represent by any means the definitive list of what is great at the Fringe, it's just our panel of judges' opinions, and at the end of the day you will hear much better from the streets and word of mouth what to see, always listen to the streets rather than awards and reviews! And we hope that you're kind to us as you were in droves last year - we are doing this purely as volunteers, and we have 100% of the £15,000 on prizes going straight to the artists. It takes many hours and we do our best, often we pay for tickets for the shows to further support the artists and thank you again for all the venue's support helping us in with free tickets when we've needed it - thank you! We now have the almost impossible job of getting this down to a list of 5 for the two short-lists which will be released on the morning of Aug 21st. And there's always the Panel Prize of course - have you been overlooked for something amazing you're doing at the Fringe, something extraordinary you're doing artistically or something where you're helping other artists - do let us know!
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JONES BOOTMAKER ISH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LIST 2024
BEST SHOW
JONES BOOTMAKER ISH EDINBURGH COMEDY AWARDS LONG LIST 2024
BEST NEWCOMER
ISH COMEDY AWARDS WINNERS 2023
The judges 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 each received a magnificent tiny 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. Who will win in 2024? 
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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 voted on anything else they wanted to give a prize to from all the amazing things happening on the Fringe.
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
