Jin Hao Lin and Daniel Petrie win Scottish heats

The first two semi-finalists in this year’s Chortle Student Comedy Award have been named, following our heats in Scotland.

Jin Hao Lin won the St Andrews heat. A fourth year English and Film Studies student, the 24-year-old also made the final of this competition last year.

And 23-year-old Daniel Petrie was crowned winner of the second heat, at Edinburgh’s Monkey Barrel comedy club. He is a fifth-year medical student at the University of Glasgow.

Next week the competition continues across the north of England, visiting Durham on Sunday (tickets), York on Monday (tickets) and Salford on Wednesday (tickets).

Now in its 19th year, the competition count Joe Lycett Phil Wang,  Jamali Maddix and Erika Ehler among its previous winners, while other finalists have included Ed Gamble, Chris Ramsay, Iain Stirling, Simon Bird and Tom Rosenthal.

You can watch all the performances of 2023 so far here.

Published: 23 Feb 2023