Cakes
After winning the Hackney Empire New Comedian competition earlier in the year, Bilal Zafar also impressed the Edinburgh Comedy Award judges with his debut solo show. In ‘Cakes’, the Wanstead-born comic recounted an epic, twisting tale about how a Twitter joke went too far. He detailed baiting online bigots about his made-up Muslim-only cake shop and hit back at Islamophobic trolls with pure silliness.