Festival Awards

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Every year after both Leicester Comedy Festival & The UK Kids' Comedy Festival have taken place, we host an awards ceremony to celebrate the acts, venues, promoters and all the other incredible people who have helped to make the festivals happen.

You can let us know you'd like your show(s) to be considered for an award when you register it/them on Eventotron - there is an option for you to select the relevant categories you would like to be considered for.

An independent Award panel, including about 20 people from all over the UK, attend shows that signed up to be considered for an award. They regularly meet and discuss the shows they've seen, and after the Festival, they communicate their shortlists and finalists for each category to our team for the Awards Ceremony.  

In 2025, the awards categories are:

• Best Show
• Best Debut Show
• Best New Show
• Best Variety Show
• Best Kids' Show
• Audience Choice
• Best Poster
• Best Small Venue
• Best Large Venue
• Best New Venue
• Best Promoter
• Tracey Miller Community Award
• Liberty Award
• Student of the Year
• Business Contribution Award
• Contribution to Leicester Comedy Festival 2025 Award
• Chris Maughan Lifetime Contribution Award
• Legend of Comedy Award

The winners & nominees in 2024 were:

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Best Show

• Daniel Foxx: Villain
• Darran Griffiths: Inconceivable
• Winner: Joe Kent-Walters: An Audience With Frankie Monroe
• Michael Brunstrom: Copernicus Now
• Milo Edwards: Sentimental
• Thanyia Moore: August

Best Debut Show

• Hannah Platt: Defence Mechanism
• Winner: Jack Skipper: Work in Progress
• Jodie Mitchell: Becoming John Travulva
• Kathy Maniura: Objectified
• Kayleigh Jones: I Fed My Dad To A Pelican
• Kev Mud: Homeless Sex Biscuit

Best New Show

• George Lewis: Men Behaving Dadly
• ‘Jake Lambert: The Sunshine Kid (Work in Progress)
• James Trickey: Don’t Count On Me (WIP)
• Luke Rollason: Luke Rollason, Let Down Your Hair
• Rich Wilson: The Train, The Story and The Bump
• Winner: Susie McCabe: Work in Progress

Best Variety Show

• Alex Camp: Songs About Love & Food
• Bad Clowns: Hostage
• Winner: David Eagle: Flying Solo
• Lil Wenker: Bangtail
• Josh Glanc: Collections
• Fanny Dent: The Burlesque Imposter
• Will BF: The Last Gun
• The Totally Improvised Musical

Best Kids' Show

• Jeddy Bear & Gary’s Chemistry of Chaos
• Jody Kamali: Mr Sleepybum
• Winner: Olaf Falafel’s Stupidest Super Stupid Show (Yet)
• Strictly Barking
• The Mighty Kids Beatbox Comedy Show

Contribution to Leicester Comedy Festival 2024

• 14/48
• Winner: Ben Robinson (creator of the Leicester Comedy Festival app)
• Reflections Design – for Laughter Pop
• Peril Design / Paul Banks

Best Promoter

• Foxy Comedy
• Winner: Jokes On Us
• Just The Tonic
• Late Stage
• Monster Comedy
• TripleCeePee

Tracey Miller Community Award

• Winner: All In Leicester
• Better Points
• Kate Frow of Foxton Primary School
• Leicester Libraries
• Menphys

Liberty Award

• Festival Hub
• Laura Wilkinson – Popcorn Funnies
• Lukewarm Losers
• Winner: Weirdos Comedy Weekender

Business Contribution Award

• Hotel Brooklyn Leicester
• Howes Percival LLP
• Menphys
• Phoenix
• Soft Touch Arts & Jerroms Miller Specialist Tax
• Winner: The Beautiful Pubs Collective
• TT Country Events
• Warning Zone Life Skills

Best Small Venue

• Firebug
• King Richard III Pub
• Peter Pizzeria
• The Big Difference
• Winner: The Black Horse

Best Large Venue

• Curve Theatre
• De Montfort Hall
• Market Harborough Market Hall
• Mountsorrel Memorial Centre
• Winner: The Y Theatre
• Wycliffe Rooms

Best New Venue

• East Street Lanes
• James Café Bistro
• Phoenix Terrace Room
• Winner: Real Ale Classroom

Student of the Year

• Amisha Brandreth (Crosscut)
• Caitlin Harries (AMAN)
• Ellie Skinner – Lukewarm Losers (Demon)
• Fengjiao Li – Asia Behind The Scenes (Demon)
• Liv Mills (AMAN)
• Winner: Molly Wilby (Aman)
• Peter Wan – Hamster’s Cage (Demon)
• Rhian Hiorns (Crosscut)

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Chris Maughan Lifetime Contribution Award

• Winner: Rob Gee

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Legend of Comedy

• Winner: Jenny Eclair