Pete Latham wins Bath Comedy Festival New Act Competition
- Pete Latham has won the Bath Comedy Festival's Newcomer Award
- Carl Carzana, Thanyia Moore and Klaus White took second and joint third places
- The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre won the inaugural Best Joke prize
Pete Latham has won top prize at the Bath Comedy Festival.
The festival's tenth annual New Act Competition concluded on Friday evening with 10 finalists contesting the inaugural Lovehoney Newcomer Award first-place title.
Latham receives £250 prize money and a guaranteed paid gig during the city's 2019 festival.
The runners up, each receiving a goody bag from sponsors Lovehoney, a local business, were Carl Carzana in second place, and in joint third, Thanyia Moore and Klaus White.
Moore recently picked up the Stage Award at the Funny Women Awards in March.
Nick Steel, director of the festival, said: "We are hugely grateful to our wonderful sponsors Lovehoney who are in no small part helping the Festival come of age." He added: "This is our 'Perrier moment'."
The competition's judges were TV comedy executives Graham Smith and Alan Nixon, comedy coach and promoter Jill Edwards, and festival boss Nick Steel.
Presentation of the award was live-streamed on Twitter.
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Best Joke Award
This year's festival also introduced a new prize of Best Joke, for the "best innuendo-laden joke of the festival" - again in partnership with sponsors Lovehoney, the UK's premier online retailer of sex toys and lingerie.
The inaugural accolade was awarded to The Scottish Falsetto Sock Puppet Theatre, and collected by show creator Kev Sutherland.
Their winning joke was:
"Do you know what? I love nursery rhymes?"
"Cock Robin?"
"No, it's just the way I'm standing."