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The Scotsman at the Edinburgh Festivals - Comedy Awards 2025

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00:00I'm Jane Bradley, Arts and Culture Correspondent at The Scotsman and I'm here this morning at the

00:07Edinburgh Comedy Awards where the nominations for best show have just come out yesterday.

00:11It's a very exciting atmosphere, it's known as the Oscars of comedy and everybody is very excited

00:17to find out later this week who will win the coveted first prize. I'm here at the nominations

00:24for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards with six of the eight nominees for the best show award.

00:31They're slightly chaotic this morning because I think they've possibly all been out celebrating

00:34all night, is that right?

00:35No.

00:36I was in bed at 11.

00:37Two in the morning.

00:39The circadian rhythm. Four hours, I've learned.

00:42Four hours is very good. Four is better than six. And I'll tell you, one hour is worse than

00:49four hours.

00:50So for the two of you with sunglasses on, can you just tell me a bit about how you set

00:54how you're feeling, how you're celebrating?

00:55I feel pretty good. I'm celebrating by wearing my favourite sunglasses with my friend Dan

01:00Tierney.

01:01Yeah, me too.

01:03And how does it feel to have got the nomination and found out yesterday?

01:06It feels amazing. I mean, look at the list. Look at the company. Incredible stuff.

01:13And Sam, what about you? How do you feel?

01:15I feel great.

01:16Yeah.

01:17Good to hear. And the squirrels?

01:18The squirrels. Look at him. He's very excited.

01:21The squirrels are turning me on.

01:23Isn't he?

01:24And cut.

01:25I'm here with the best newcomer nominees for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. Hello everybody.

01:30Hello.

01:31It's not quite nowhere to put the mic, but how are you all feeling? Is that exciting day?

01:36Yeah.

01:37Oh yeah.

01:38I'm a bit tired. I feel like we're dreaming, but it's so cool.

01:42Yeah, but it's real. It's real.

01:43And when you all came to the Fringe this year, were you expecting to be standing here today?

01:46Yeah.

01:47Yeah.

01:48I don't know.

01:49No, but yeah. How wild though. It's pretty cool.

01:52Great. And what about the rest of you?

01:53No.

01:54No.

01:55No.

01:56No.

01:57I'm wearing binoculars. Clearly I wasn't meant to be here.

01:58That was great. Well, thank you so much for joining us and good luck in the next couple

02:11of days.

02:12Thanks.

02:13So I'm here with two more of the award nominees for the best show award. Congratulations guys.

02:20So how's it feeling today?

02:22Tired.

02:23Yeah, it's early.

02:24It's early.

02:25It's early.

02:26Deeply exhausting.

02:27Yeah. We're children of the night, I think. What time did we go?

02:29Yeah, 9, 15.

02:30Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm seven. Yeah.

02:32Yeah, yeah. Tired.

02:33So this is the earliest you've been up all right now?

02:34Yes.

02:35Yeah.

02:36By like maybe four to five hours.

02:38Yeah, we're deeply nocturnal at this point.

02:40So what's it going to be like over the last few days of your run? Is it going to feel

02:43quite nerve-wracking waiting to hear the results?

02:46Not until you said that, no.

02:48No, I really hadn't thought of it at all.

02:50Okay, cool.

02:51But now, now I want to sleep.

02:52Now you're terrible.

02:53Great.

02:54That's good.

02:55That's good.

02:56And how many more shows have you got to go?

02:58Three or four?

02:59I got five.

03:00We're on a weird Monday.

03:02Whoa, whoa, whoa.

03:03Okay, so four.

03:04Four for me.

03:05Not doing a weird Monday.

03:06Yeah.

03:07Great.

03:08Thanks for the all and hope it goes well.

03:10Thank you so much.

03:11Thank you so much.

03:12I feel like the other group was so much more fun than us.

03:15They had a squirrel.

03:17They had cool glasses.

03:18We didn't have any props.

03:19We have no props.

03:20Get the diaper.

03:21We have, you know, but I think we're all really good at what we do and people should

03:26come see it.

03:27Donald Taffner, who's one of the main sponsors of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, has been to see

03:32109 shows this fringe so far.

03:35How's that feeling?

03:36It's tiring.

03:37My last show was last night at 1 o'clock in the morning.

03:41But it's a fun journey.

03:43Every year I try to see one more show than I did the previous year.

03:46So this year I will be seeing at least 129 shows.

03:49And you're not even actually on the panel for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards.

03:52No, this is all either for my enjoyment or a lot of times it's business.

03:57It's to see potential people to work with in television in the future.

04:01We have some talent agencies and production companies that we work with.

04:04So we're involved in 72 shows here right now.

04:07Yeah.

04:08So in terms of the awards, what's the feeling this year?

04:10I mean, everyone seems very excited.

04:12I think it's wide open.

04:13It really is.

04:14I mean, as always, there's a ton of shows which could have been nominated as well.

04:18This year in particular, for me, has been a very good year.

04:21Of the 109 shows I've seen so far, there's only three I kind of regret seeing,

04:27and I won't say what they are because that's not what this is about.

04:29There's another 20 that might be in the, oh, that's a very fringe show.

04:33But other than that, there's a lot of very, very good shows out there.

04:36And I think that's all that we've pointed out to, that's a very nice piece.

04:37I think so.

04:38I think it's a very nice piece.

04:39So there's some good things here.

04:40It's a big piece.

04:41I think it's probably a lot of ourselves and that kind of beak of someone perhaps not

04:43being.

04:44I think it's about the time to try and deal with it, it's about the time I've been

04:46actually in my office.

04:47And it's about to try and do a lot of stuff because I don't know what it's very

04:48particularly the time that's going to go and do.

04:49Yeah.

04:50And then it's about to try and make awesome things and stuff.

04:51And I think it's about to try and think about it, as well, that will be

04:52enough to try and repeat.

04:53And it's about to try and get into some of the space.

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