The winner of the 2025 Victoria Wood Award is @comedyclub4kids !
Comedy Club 4 Kids started at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005, when comedian and writer James Campbell decided it wasn’t fair that only adults got to laugh at stand-up comedy and children don’t, when kids like to laugh a lot too.
Since 2010, CC4K has been run by Isabelle Adam, Tiernan Douieb and Melissa O’Brien, and has expanded from one London residency to being countrywide, getting the very best stand-up comedians to do safe and relevant material for children aged 6+ and their families.
Putting on shows all over the UK (and the rest of the world too!) they’ve performed at festivals, theatres, clubs, schools, charities, theme parks and more.
They also provide workshops which teach children the basics of how to do stand-up comedy. This improves confidence, presentation and language skills and has positive effects on students’ mental health and wellbeing. Several of their workshop graduates have gone on to continue doing stand-up as adults.
They recently set up a Community Interest Company side to CC4K to bring more workshops to schools and youth groups, with the hope they’ll reach even more children around the UK.
Not only that, but CC4K also has the Radio Nonsense podcast, which has been nominated for two podcast awards.
The winner of DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer 2025 is @ayoadezahrah for Swings and Roundabouts!
Congratulations from everyone at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards! 🎉
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The winner of Taffner Family Best Comedy Show 2025 is @samnicoresti for Baby Doomer! 🎉
Congratulations from all of us here at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards!
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💫 Join our judging panel for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2026! 💫
Want to go to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for free? Think you could handle more than 100 hours of comedy in 2 weeks? Then you may have what it takes to be an Edinburgh Comedy Award Panellist!
We’re offering you the chance to join the judging panel for Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Britain's most important prize for comedy as it celebrates 46 years of discovering comedy genius.
HOW TO APPLY:
1. Tell us in approx 350 words why you are the best candidate.
2. Write three short reviews, no more than 150 words each, of your three favourite live comedy acts.
3. Entries must reach us by 08 May 2026 at 12pm. If you are shortlisted, you will be required to attend an informal interview online on 19 or 21 May. Send your entry to [email protected].
So show us your credentials. We’re looking for real punters who know and care about comedy. You must be available to stay in Edinburgh from 15 – 29 August as a minimum. In return, Edinburgh Comedy Awards will provide you with accommodation, travel, show tickets and invitations to the best bars and parties in town! You will be supported throughout the process by our administrative team and our extended family of ex-panellists who are now our brilliant scouts.
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1. Entrants must be 18 or over and resident in the UK. 2. Entrants must be available full time and able to reside in Edinburgh from 15 – 29 August. 3. The competition is not open to employees of the Festival Fringe Society or anyone connected professionally with the comedy business. 4. The prize is a position on the Edinburgh Comedy Awards judging panel for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2026. The winner must attend approximately six shows a day, possibly more, and provide short reviews for all shows attended. 5. Only one entry per person. 6. The winners will be chosen by the Award Director Nica Burns and Producer, Emma Brunjes, and the decision is final. 7. The prize is non-transferable. There will be no cash prize. 8. No responsibility will be taken for entries lost, delayed or incomplete. 9. All costs incurred by the winners other than travel and accommodation are at the winner’s expense.
The winning moment for @ayoadezahrah at this year's awards! 🎉
Ayoade won @dltentertainment 's Best Newcomer 2025 for her show, Swings and Roundabouts! ✨
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Well that was a nice day @edfringe . Big thank you to @edcomedyawards for recognising all the work we’ve done @comedyclub4kids for the last 20 years since beginning at the fringe in 2005.
Find out how our @dltentertainment Best Newcomer nominees are feeling ahead of the ceremony on Saturday!
Less than 24 hours until we find out who’ll be taking home an Edinburgh Comedy Award!
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If you won an Edinburgh Comedy Award, where would you put it? 🤔
From light saber accessories to taxidermy squirrels, find out where our Taffner Family Best Comedy Show nominees would put their award if they win on Saturday! 🎉
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