Midlands Comedy Awards 2017 results

Monday 4th December 2017, 10:30pm

Rob Kemp has won the Breakthrough, Alternative and Live Show prizes at the Midlands Comedy Awards 2017
Joe Lycett was named Best Act, Barry Dodds won Best MC, and Jack Kirwan took home the Online Award
Jem Braithwaite is Best New Act, whilst Funhouse Comedy founder Spiky Mike got Outstanding Contribution

The results of the Midlands Comedy Awards 2017 have been announced.

The winners were revealed at a ceremony in Leicester tonight, featuromg performances by a dozen finalists on the theme of "comedy heroes", with each act performing a pastiche of their favourite comedians.

Rob Kemp, the The Elvis Dead show creator - who 'dominated' the shortlists with six nominations - walked away with three prizes on the night.

Other winners included Notts-based Barry Dodds, who picked up the Best MC trophy for the third year in a row; whilst Birmingham's Joe Lycett won in the Best Act category.

Awards organiser Jay Islaam comments: "I'd like to congratulate all the finalists and the winners. This was obviously going to be Rob Kemp's year. He's an exceptionally nice guy and the Midlands comedy community is delighted with his success in 2017, so it was inevitable they'd want to recognise that at the awards tonight. There's also clearly great admiration for Barry Dodds too, as he's won Best MC three years on the trot now.

"This is the fourth year of the Midlands Comedy Awards and the love and support from the regional comedy community for this initiative is wonderful to see. More than 4000 votes were cast this time around, and the competition was fierce across the categories. However, it's great to see so many people celebrating the success of their peers so enthusiastically."

The full list of results is below: