Well, you’ve seen my predictions, now here is what a group of strangers has come up with - and their selections couldn’t be any stranger to me! The official 2007 if.comeddies Awards will be decided from the following people:
Nominations for the top Award: Andrew Lawrence (dark comedy insulting others); Andrew Maxwell (story telling); Brendon Burns (offensive comedy designed to shock but with a big finale); Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio Roadshow (character comedy as a Radio DJ playing a lot of music); Pappy’s Fun Club (sketch comedy which is apparently eerily similar to last year’s nominees We Are Klang).
I’m stunned! No space for Lawrence Leung or Rhod Gilbert let alone Michael McIntyre - it’s unexplainable. All nominees have received mixed reviews from the press and public alike whereas the previous three gentlemen have earned nothing but stunning write-ups. The best Newcomer Nominations seem a little bit more sensible although somehow Nina Conti doesn’t get a mention? The line up is Jon Richardson; Micky Flanagan; Tom Basden; Zoe Lyons. Saturday night at midnight is decision time, if you don’t want to wait until then there can only really be one sane outcome … Brendon Burns to follow in Phil Nichol’s footsteps as the latest winner of the top award in Edinburgh.
