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Black Country punsmith Masai Graham leads the shortlists for this year’s Midlands Comedy Awards, with four nominees.

The comedian has been shortlisted in the best act, breakthrough act, live show and online comedy categories.

Graham, who is the reigning UK Pun champion and won the best joke of the Fringe prize in Edinburgh this summer, received nominations in exactly the same categories last year. In the end he won the online award

The full list of nominees is:

BEST ACT

Scott Bennett
Patrick Draper
Masai Graham
Dan Nightingale
Duncan Oakley

BEST MC

Karen Bayley
Wayne Beese
Gareth Berliner
Nick Clarke
Barry Dodds
Alex Hylton
Jason Neale
Jon Pearson
Andy Robinson

BREAKTHROUGH ACT

Tom Christian
Masai Graham
Jay Handley
Alex Hylton
Graham Milton
Josh Pugh
Stu Woodings

BEST NEW ACT

Harvey Hawkins
Sarah Johnson
Moses Ali Khan
Eric Rushton
Liam Webber

ALTERNATIVE ACT

Ian Hall
Andrew McBurney
Dan Nicholas
Paul Palmer
Johnny Sorrow
Roger Swift

BEST LIVE SHOW

101 Clean/Naughty Jokes: Masai Graham
Boabby Roaster: Kirwan/McBurney/Hyde
Hell To Play: Paul Savage/Alexander Bennett
I Came, I Saw, I Complained: Alex Hylton
Punderstudy: Roger Swift
You Can’t Handley The Truth: Jay Handley

ONLINE COMEDY
Craig Deeley
Masai Graham
Instant Nostalgia
Jack Kirwan
Mike O’Callaghan
The Parapod
TOAD Radio

BEST COMEDY CLUB

Fitz of Laughter(Stourbridge)
Funhouse Comedy(Midlands)
Glee Club (Birmingham / Nottingham)
Mortified(Tamworth)
Laff Attack(West Midlands)
Voodoo Stands Up (Stamford)

BEST SMALL CLUB

Blue Giraffe(West Midlands)
The Cookie (Leicester)
Club Smashing(Leicester)
The Criterion (Leicester)
FAF Comedy (East Midlands)
Fat Penguin (Birmingham)
Fitz of Laughter(Stourbridge)
Manilla Road(Birmingham)
Mortified (Tamworth)
NCF Comedy(Midlands)
Proper Funny (Leicester)
Teknicolour Smoof(Shropshire)

BEST OPEN MIC SHOW

Anarchy(Black Country)
Canal House (NCF)(Nottingham)
Comedy & Cocktails (Leicester)
The Holly Bush (Black Country)
Proper Funny (Leicester)
Road House (Birmingham)

 
The winners are decided by an online public vote, and will be announced at the Canal House in Nottingham on Sunday November 27. Last year more than 4.000 votes were cast.
 
Vote here.

Published: 2 Nov 2016