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Nicholas Parsons collects Legend Of Comedy Award
Just A Minute host Nicholas Parsons has collected a Legend Of Comedy Award at Leicester Comedy Festival's annual awards ceremony. Other winners at the ceremony included Lloyd Langford and Flo & Joan.
British Comedy Guide, 26th March 2018Leicester Comedy Festival review: UK Pun Championships
Eight comedians battled to be named UK Pun Champion.
Becky Jones, Leicester Mercury, 13th February 2018Review: UK Pun Championships Final
#UKPunday, founded by the Leicester Comedy Festival, has become a fixture in the social media calender. This year wordplay-based tweets notched up over 100 million impressions during the day. That's a lorra lorra lols. And sometimes during the final of the UK Pun Championships one did feel the best gags had already been hashtag cracked.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 13th February 2018The best - and the worst - from the UK Pun Championship
Welcome to the punderdome! In what's taken off as a great marketing gimmick - with #ukpunday trending across Twitter yesterday - eight pun-dits gather at the Leicester Comedy Festival for the closest that word nerds get to sports. One-on-one in a boxing ring they exchange pun-ches in a bid to take the UK Pun Championship.
Chortle, 13th February 2018Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 competition line-ups
The line-ups for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, The UK Pun Championships and The Silver Stand Up Competition - all due to take place as part of the Leicester Comedy Festival 2018 - have been announced.
British Comedy Guide, 21st December 2017The problem with joke theft
When Dave's Funniest Jokes of the Fringe (for which I was on the judging panel, oh stop it's no big deal really) was released at the end of August I noticed a glug of something on social media. That glug was, to put it plainly, joke nickin'. People tweeting and updating their Facebook statuses with jokes I recognised from the list, which was distributed widely among the press, and not attributing the joke to the writer.
Kate Stone, Funny Women, 10th October 2017#EdFringe17: Adele Cliff's Notes
The much sought-after Adele Cliff returns to Edinburgh with a new show, Cliff Notes. We spend 15 minutes in the company of the popular one liner comedian and we hear the joke voted 'eighth funniest' at the 2016 Edinburgh Fringe.
Martin Walker, Broadway Baby, 8th May 2017Ten must see new acts at Edinburgh Fringe 2016
There are plenty of big names gracing the Edinburgh Fringe right now, and there'll be celebrity acts, to suit every taste, showing off their latest productions all over the city. However, every superstar started at the bottom of the ladder and had to work their way to success, demonstrating their superiority amongst their tenderfoot peers.
Jay Islaam, The Huffington Post, 16th August 2016