Colin Leggo
- Comedian
Press clippings
Leicester Comedy Festival to publish All Puns Blazing joke book
Leicester Comedy Festival is publishing a celebratory book of puns. All Puns Blazing: The Best British Knockout Jokes will be published in November.
British Comedy Guide, 16th August 2021Union JACK Radio commissions new comedy shows
DAB radio station Union JACK has commissioned a weekly stand-up show, topical comedy series Josh Berry's Fake News, and a strand called Pundays.
British Comedy Guide, 15th April 2019Colin Leggo interview
In some ways you couldn't make it up - a STAND-UP comedian who lost a leg. And here's the piece de resistance ... his name? Leg-go. It's no surprise that Colin Leggo's amputation five years ago has fed into his comedy routines, but it's certainly not been a laugh a minute for the London-based, Falmouth comedian.
Lee Trewhela, Cornwall Live, 19th February 2019Colin Leggo wins UK Pun Championships 2019
Colin Leggo has won the UK Pun Championships 2019 competition, with gags about he seaside, cold weather and nudist beaches.
British Comedy Guide, 12th February 2019Leicester 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 2017Live Review, UK Pun Championships Final
This year's UK Pun Championships Final went the full WWF. Barpaga was duly crowned Pun Champion 2017 and he certainly deserved it - though not necessarily for his final joke.
Bruce Dessau, Beyond The Joke, 14th February 2017Interview: Colin Leggo, Leggoland
A chat with Colin Leggo.
Hannah Whitcombe, Fresh Fringe, 15th August 2015