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Low Effort Sketches Ed Fringe Mario Kart Tournament 2024 results

The results of the Low Effort Sketches Ed Fringe Mario Kart Tournament 2024 have been confirmed, with Ewan Woods from Cambridge Footlights topping the time rankings.

British Comedy Guide, 29th August 2024

BCG Pro Talent Awards for Performance 2023 finalists

Omar Ibrahim, Kit Loyd, Low Effort Sketches, Jane Postlethwaite and Maxine Wade are the BCG Pro Talent Awards for Performance 2023 finalists. Ollie Fox has been named as the Starter winner.

British Comedy Guide, 24th November 2023

Leicester Comedy Festival announces 2023 shortlists

The Leicester Comedy Festival has announced the shortlists for the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year, UK Pun Championships and Silver Stand Up contests, plus the Circuit Breakers development programme.

British Comedy Guide, 13th December 2022

Sketch Off final results

The winners were Low Effort Sketches, Dregs came second and Christian Brighty came third.

Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 21st March 2022

Chortle Student Comedy Award final 2021 review

This has not been a good year to be a student, or to be a comedian - and twice as challenging to be both. Yet you would never have guessed there had been such unprecedented disruption from the final of the Chortle Student Comedy Award on Monday night, with the young acts providing as strong a line-up as ever.

Steve Bennett, Chortle, 22nd September 2021

Chortle Student Comedy Award final to finally happen

Postponed from last year and moved from its usual Edinburgh Fringe home, the event will now take place at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London on September 20, and will be hosted by Mark Watson.

Chortle, 21st July 2021

Chortle Student Comedy Award finalists named

The finalists have been named in the week the final should have taken place at the Edinburgh Fringe. Details of what form the final will actually take will be revealed once we know them!

Chortle, 20th August 2020

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