Paul Shearer
- Actor and writer
Press clippings
The past Edinburgh Comedy Award winners you should know
Before we find out who won this year's prize, we've taken a look back over some of the most significant wins since the Edinburgh Comedy Awards began.
Zoe Paskett, Evening Standard, 21st August 2019How comedy captured the Edinburgh Fringe: part 2
Our first instalment of this series covered over three decades, when the Edinburgh Fringe was almost without comedians at all. Now in Part Two, we find one year alone - 1981 - influences comedy more than all the previous Fringes put together.
Ben Venables, The Skinny, 6th June 2017Nice Day At The Office (BBC1), a new comedy series, is encouragingly cast. Timothy Spall, John Sessions and Anna Massey must have found it promising though only a studio audience could enjoy this sort of thing: "I swear I'll report you to Human Resources, you disgusting drunken pervert." "Shut up you dried-up old bag."
Nancy Banks-Smith, The Guardian, 27th September 1994