List of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners
Best Newcomer Award

List of Edinburgh Comedy Award winners

Section Title: Best Newcomer Award
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Best Newcomer Award

Year	Winner	Nominees

1992	Harry Hill - Flies!

1993	Dominic Holland - Red Hot Dutch with Dominic

1994	Scott Capurro - Risk Gay

1995	Tim Vine – The Tim Vine Fiasco

1996	Milton Jones - The Head

1997	Arj Barker - Arj Barker's Letter to America

1998	The Mighty Boosh, with Julian Barratt, Noel Fielding and Rich Fulcher	Chris Addison Jason Byrne Jon Reed Paul Foot

1999	Ben'n'Arn's Big Top, with Ben Willbond, Arnold Widdowson and Bernard Hughes	Infinite Number of Monkeys, with Tim FitzHigham and James Cary - Sketch Comedy of Hypotheticals The Arthur Dung Show, with Dave Lamb and Jim North Wil Anderson - Wilennium

2000	Noble & Silver	Andrew Clover - A Man of Substance in a World of Filth Dan Antopolski - Second Coming David O'Doherty - David O'Doherty's The Boy Who Saved Comedy

2001	Garth Cruickshank & Eddie McCabe Let's Have a Right Royal Shambles	Andy Zaltzman - Andy Zaltzman versus the Dog of Doom, with John Oliver Cambridge Footlights - Far too Happy, with Edward Jaspers, Tim Key, Day Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson and Sophie Winkleman Danny Bhoy

2002	The Consultants - Finger in the Wind	Hal Cruttenden Natalie Haynes Reginald D. Hunter

2003	Gary Le Strange – Polaroid Suitcase	Alex Horne - Making Fish Laugh with Tim Key Michael McIntyre Miles Jupp - Gentlemen Prefer Brogues

2004	Wil Hodgson - The Passion Of The Hodgson	Alun Cochrane - My Favourite Words in My Favourite Stories Joanna Neary - Joanna Neary is not feeling herself Sabotage: In Fine Form, aka Shenoah Allen and Mark Shavez

2005	Tim Minchin - Dark Side	Charlie Pickering - Betterman Mark Watson - 50 years before I die Rhod Gilbert - Rhod Gilbert's 1984 Toulson and Harvey, aka Stephen Harvey and Luke Toulson

2006	Josie Long - Kindness & Exuberance	Fat Tongue with Sophie Black, Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri Burns God's Pottery - Concert for Lavert Russell Kane - Russell Kane's Theory of Pretension

2007	Tom Basden - Won't Say Anything	Jon Richardson - Spatula Pad Micky Flanagan - What Chance Change? Zoe Lyons - Fight or Flight

2008	Sarah Millican - Sarah Millican's Not Nice	Mike Wozniak Pippa Evans

2009	Jonny Sweet – Mostly About Arthur	Carl Donnelly - Relax Everyone, It's Carl Donnelly! Jack Whitehall - Nearly Rebellious Kevin Bridges - An Hour to Sing for Your Soul Pete Johansson - Naked Pictures of My Life

2010	Roisin Conaty – Hero, Warrior, Fireman, Liar	An Audience with Imran Yusuf Asher Treleaven – Secret Door Gareth Richards – Stand Up Between Songs Late Night Gimp Fight!

2011	Humphrey Ker – Humphrey Ker is Dymock Watson: Nazi Smasher	Cariad Lloyd – Lady Cariad's Characters The Chris and Paul Show Hannibal Buress – My Name is Hannibal – The Hannibal Montanabal Experience Josh Widdicombe – If This Show Changes One Life Holly Walsh – Hollycopter Thom Tuck – Thom Tuck Goes Straight-to-DVD Totally Tom

2012	Daniel Simonsen – Champions	David Trent – Spontaneous Comedian Discover Ben Target Joe Lycett – Some Lycett Hot Sam Fletcher – Good on Paper

2013	John Kearns – Sight Gags For Perverts	Aisling Bea – C'est La Bea Liam Williams Matt Okine – Being Black & Chicken & S#%t Romesh Ranganathan – Rom Com

2014	Alex Edelman – Millennial	Dane Baptiste – Citizen Dane Gein's Family Giftshop – Gein's Family Giftshop Volume 1 Lazy Susan – Extreme Humans Lucy Beaumont – We Can Twerk it Out Steen Raskopoulos – I'm Wearing Two Suits Because I Mean Business

2015	Sofie Hagen – Bubblewrap	Adam Hess – Salmon Daphne – Daphne Do Edinburgh Larry Dean – Out Now! John Henry Falle – The Story Beast Tom Ballard – Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred Tom Parry – Yellow T-Shirt

2016	Scott Gibson – Life After Death	Bilal Zafar – Cakes Brennan Reece – Everglow Jayde Adams – 31 Michelle Wolf – So Brave Nath Valvo – Happy Idiot

2017	Natalie Palamides - LAID	Chris Washington - Dream Big (Within Reason) Darren Harriott - Defiant Ed Night - Anthem for Doomed Youth Kwame Asante - Open Arms Lauren Pattison - Lady Muck Lucy Pearman - Maid of Cabbage Rob Kemp - The Elvis Dead

2018	Ciarán Dowd - Don Rodolfo	Maisie Adam - Vague Olga Koch - Fight Sara Barron - For Worse Sara Keyworth - Dark Horse Sindhu Vee - Sandhog

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Darren Harriott was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017.

final_sentence: Darren Harriott was nominated for the Best Newcomer Award at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2017.