Leicester Comedy Festival Awards 2025 results
- Legend of Comedy: The Comedy Store Players, in their 40th year
- Best Show: Katie Norris; Best New Show: Helen Bauer; Best Debut Show: Kyrah Gray
- Best Kids Show: Jody Kamali; Best Variety Show: Katie Tranter; Audience Choice: A Very Serious Detective Play
Improv group The Comedy Store Players picked up the Legend of Comedy trophy at Leicester Comedy Festival's annual awards ceremony tonight.
The Players - Neil Mullarkey, Josie Lawrence, Richard Vranch, Lee Simpson and Ruth Bratt - who all attended the ceremony, said: "Leicester Comedy Festival 'Legends' award is a delightful way for us to mark our 40th birthday. We believe this may be the first award we've ever won, and it only took us just under half a century to get it."
The other winners were:
Best Show
Best New Show
Helen Bauer (Work in Progress)
Best Debut Show
Kyrah Gray (Work in Progress)
Best Kids Show
Jody Kamali: Mr Sleepybum's Dream Machine
Best Variety Show
Katie Tranter: The Great Divinator: Touched By The Spirits
Audience Choice
Plague of Pigeons: A Very Serious Detective Play
Best Poster
Keep It Clean: Family Comedy Club
Best Small Venue: The Black Horse
Best Large Venue: The Y Theatre
Best New Venue: Inside No9
Liberty Award: The Worst Record Cover of the World Exhibition
Best Promoter: TripleCeePee
Tracey Miller Community Award: Welly's Work Place & Sunny Skies Community Cafe
Student of the Year: Livy Mularczyk
Business Contribution: Versatile
Contribution to LCF25: Juice Creative Design
Chris Maughan Lifetime Contribution Award: Jokes On Us
Charlotte Laidet, festivals and programme director at Big Difference, the charity behind the festival, comments: "Leicester Comedy Festival has always been about celebrating the talents in the comedy community, both on and off stage, and we are very proud once again to present these awards to thank everyone who help making our festival such a vibrant event.
"This year we also wanted to celebrate improv, an often-underappreciated comedy genre by giving the Legend of Comedy Award to The Comedy Store Players. This long-running organisation has had such a huge impact on the comedy scene that we wanted to celebrate them for their 40th anniversary.
"Congratulations to all the winners and thanks to everyone involved in Leicester Comedy Festival, we are looking forward to next year!"
Leicester Comedy Festival 2026 will run from 4th to 22nd February.