The winners of the Edinburgh Festival Comedy Awards have been announced. The names change but it's all predictably familiar. As usual the winner (Josie Long) of the best newcomer award hails from an Oxbridge (why is it never Camford?) University. Now either these Universities attract the cream of new comedy talent, (separating the Hugh Lawrie's from the John Cleese's by an exam and a viva "So Miss Long apart from "surprise and fear" what are our four main weapons?") Camford students are genetically funnier, or the judges like to award things to fellow alumini. You know with the success these Universities have in the field of comedy I'm surprised they don't demand it's immediate inclusion in the University performance league tables. I'd imagine some opposition. If you were the Vice Chancellor Of Queen's University Belfast would you want your success to be measured by the number of Patrick Kieltys you produce?
I digress. According to the BBC the winner, Canadian Phil Nicol was a "flamboyant comedy character on the Fringe who blew everybody away with an outstanding show". His show "describes a debauched weekend in Amsterdam when he comes across drug dealers, taxi drivers and racists" Good to see he's avoiding the easy targets. I'm sure his diary is now full of invitations to appear on smug BBC2 panel shows. A fate that will be shared by the runners up. This year they included "a gay Asian GP Paul Sinha, Bristol stand-up Russell Howard, Irishman David O'Doherty". So a Canadian beat a gay Asian, an Englishman and an Irishman. Is this supposed to be some sort of a joke?
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