© John Fleming Malcolm Hardee Awards 2024 shortlists announced
Celebrating the anarchic side of the Edinburgh Fringe
The nominees for The Malcolm Hardee Awards 2024 have been revealed – the third Edinburgh Fringe accolades to release their shortlist today.
Handed out in the memory of comic, agent, manager, club-owner and prankster Malcolm Hardee, pictured, the awards celebrate the spirit of anything-goes comedy anarchy at the festival.
The shortlists are
Comic Originality
- 10,000 Digits of Pi (performed by Vinay Sagar): Banshee Labyrinth, 1:30am
- The Duncan Brothers: Blood Sword: Underbelly Cowgate, 9:30pm
- Elliot Wengler: Jokémon: City Café, 3:40pm
- Garry Starr: Classic Penguins: Pleasance Courtyard, 8:30pm
- Mark Dean Quinn: Oh No (That's Not Your Cheese): Banshee Labyrinth, 1:50am
- Nate Kitch: Tomorrow Might Not Happen; Now: Gilded Balloon Patter Hoose, 5:40pm
- Paulina Lenoir: Puella Eterna: Assembly Roxy, 10pm
- The Thermos Museum (performed by Neil Davidson): PBH Free Fringe Satyr, 3:40pm
Cunning Stunt
- Huge Davies: For tricking people using mock-up national press covers suggesting that he had been cancelled. (https://www.instagram.com/hugedavies/)
- Luke Rollason: For hiding 100 loo rolls with his face on within the toilets at performer bars.
- Thom Tuck: For performing at a different time and a different location every day, so the audience has to engage on social media to find out where and when the show is.
- Tim Reeves: For creating a pastiche brochure that satirises different kinds of shows at the Fringe.
Act That Should Make a Million Quid
- Dylan Mulvaney
- Finlay Christie
- Garry Starr
The winners will be presented with trophies during the festival.
Earlier today nominees were announced for the main Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards.
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Published: 21 Aug 2024
