Having successfully taken their events online, The Leicester Comedy Festival has now announced the shortlist for its annual awards. The winners will be announced at an exclusive, invitation-only online ceremony hosted by Zoe Lyons.
Festival director Geoff Rowe said: “The 2021 festivals were clearly very different to previous festivals given everything was online. However, we still wanted to recognise the amazing contribution performers and others made to the events and we are still going ahead with our ceremony.”
Taking place over 19 days, the festival sold over 20,000 tickets and we were delighted to see plenty of Funny Women Awards alumni and friends on the programme, some of whom have made it to the list of nominees!
The nominees are:
Best Show
Weirdos Comedy: Gary & The Crisp Factory
Tim Key: He Used Thought As A Wife (The Recital)
Esther Manito: #Notallmen
Stuart Laws: Single Father Of None
Fin Taylor: Irrelevant Material For A Post-Vaccine World
Best Festival Appearance
Ahir Shah
Louise Young
Sikisa
Joe Thomas
Jamie d’Souza
Best Podcast
Biggest Idiot
Pappy’s Flatshare Slamdown
The Dinner Party
Comedy Arcade
Jessica Fostekew: Hoovering
Best Kids’ Show
Jonny Awsum: The Gag Slinging Guitar Hero
Paul Currie: Turbo Fool
Philip Simon: School’s Out Comedy Club
Jeddy Bear & Gary’s Picnic
Liberty Award
Jericho Comedy
The Joke Spot/Leicester City Libraries
Beyond A Joke series
No More Jockeys Live/TripleCeePee
Weirdos/Gary & The Crisp Factory
Best Promoter
TripleCeePee
Just The Tonic
Tickled Pink
Leicester Cathedral