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Best Newcomers 2023
Best Newcomers 2023 Winner(s)
Urooj Ashfaq: Oh No!
Best Newcomers 2023 Nominees
Bill O’Neill: The Amazing Banana Brother
Dan Tiernan: Going Under
Lindsey Santoro: Pink Tinge
Louise Young: Feral
Martin Urbano: Apology Comeback Tour
Paddy Young: Hungry, Horny, Scared
Best Newcomers 2022
Best Newcomers 2022 Winner(s)
Lara Ricote GRL/LATNX/DEF
Best Newcomers 2022 Nominees
Amy Gledhill
The Girl Before The Girl You Marry
Emily Wilson
Fixed
Emmanuel Sonubi
Emancipated
Josh Jones
Waste of Space
Leo Reich
Literally Who Cares?!
Vittorio Angelone
Translations
Best Newcomers 2019
Best Newcomers 2019 Nominees
Crybabies
Danger Brigade
Helen Bauer
Little Miss Baby Angel Face
Huge Davies
The Carpark
Janine Harouni
Stand Up With Janine Harouni (Please Remain Seated)
Michael Odewale
#BLACKBEARSMATTER
Nigel Ng
Culture Shocked
Sophie Duker
Venus
Best Newcomers 2018
Best Newcomers 2018 Nominees
Maisie Adam
Vague
Olga Koch
Fight
Sara Barron
For Worse
Sarah Keyworth
Dark Horse
Sindhu Vee
Sandhog
Best Newcomers 2017
Best Newcomers 2017 Nominees
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
Best Newcomers 2016
Best Newcomers 2016 Nominees
Bilal Zafar
Cakes
Brennan Reece
Everglow
Jayde Adams
31
Michelle Wolf
So Brave
Nath Valvo
Happy Idiot
Best Newcomers 2015
Best Newcomers 2015 Nominees
Daphne Do Edinburgh
Daphne Do Edinburgh
Larry Dean
Out Now!
The Story Beast
The Story Beast
Tom Ballard
Tom Ballard: Tom Ballard: Taxis & Rainbows & Hatred
Tom Parry
Yellow T-shirt
Adam Hess
Salmon
Best Newcomers 2014
Best Newcomers 2014 Nominees
Dane Baptiste
Citizen Dane
Gein’s Family Giftshop
Geins 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
Best Newcomers 2013
Best Newcomers 2013 Nominees
Aisling Bea
C'est La Bea
Matt Okine
Being Black & Chicken & S#%t
Romesh Ranganathan
Rom Com
Best Newcomers 2012
Best Newcomers 2012 Nominees
David Trent
Spontaneous Comedian
Joe Lycett
Some Lycett Hot
Sam Fletcher
Good on Paper
Best Newcomers 2011
Best Newcomers 2011 Nominees
Cariad Lloyd
Lady Cariad's Characters
Hannibal Buress
My Name is Hannibal: The Hannibal Montanabal Experience
Holly Walsh
The Hollycopter
Josh Widdicombe
If This Show Saves One Life
Thom Tuck
Thom Tuck Goes Straight to DVD
Best Newcomers 2010
Best Newcomers 2010 Nominees
Asher Treleaven
Secret Door
Imran Yusuf
An Audience with Imran Yusuf
Sam Wills
The Boy with Tape on His Face
Gareth Richards
Stand Up Between Songs
Best Newcomers 2009
Best Newcomers 2009 Nominees
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
Best Newcomers 2008
Best Newcomers 2007
Best Newcomers 2007 Nominees
Micky Flanagan
What Chance Change?
Zoe Lyons
Fight or Flight
Jon Richardson
Spatula Pad
Best Newcomers 2006
Best Newcomers 2006 Nominees
Fat Tongue
Sophie Black, Seb Cardinal and Dustin Demri Burns
God's Pottery
Concert for Lavert - Krister Johnson and Wilson Hall
Russell Kane
Russell Kane's Theory of Pretension
Andrew Lawrence
How to Butcher your Loved Ones
Best Newcomers 2005
Best Newcomers 2005 Nominees
Rhod Gilbert
Rhod Gilbert's 1984
Charlie Pickering
Betterman
Toulson and Harvey
Stephen Harvey and Luke Toulson
Mark Watson
50 years before I die
Best Newcomers 2004
Best Newcomers 2004 Nominees
Alun Cochrane
My Favourite Words in My Favourite Stories
Joanna Neary
Joanna Neary is not feeling herself
Sabotage
In Fine Form - Shenoah Allen, Mark Shavez
Best Newcomers 2003
Best Newcomers 2003 Nominees
Alex Horne
Making Fish Laugh with Tim Key
Miles Jupp
Gentlemen Prefer Brogues
Best Newcomers 2002
Best Newcomers 2002 Winner(s)
The Consultants Finger in the Wind - Justin Edwards, Neil Edmond and James Rawlings
Best Newcomers 2001
Best Newcomers 2001 Nominees
Andy Zaltzman
Andy Zaltzman versus the Dog of Doom
Cambridge Footlights
Far too Happy - Edward Jaspers, Tim Key, Day Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson and Sophie Winkleman
Best Newcomers 2000
Best Newcomers 2000 Nominees
Dan Antopolski
Second Coming
Andrew Clover
A Man of Substance in a World of Filth
David O'Doherty
David O'Doherty's The Boy Who Saved Comedy
Best Newcomers 1999
Best Newcomers 1999 Winner(s)
Ben 'n' Arn's Big Top Arnold Widdowson, Ben Willbond with Bernard Hughes
Best Newcomers 1999 Nominees
The Arthur Dung Show
Dave Lamb and Jim North
Infinite Number of Monkeys
Sketch Comedy of Hypotheticals - Tim Fitzhigham and James Cary
Wil Anderson
Wilennium
