2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe
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The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 5–27 August 2001 and presented 1462 shows over 176 venues.

Scotsman Fringe First Awards

Week One:
  • Gagarin Way
  • Runt
  • Like Thunder
  • Bedbound
  • Ferdydurke


Week Two:
  • Man in the Flying Lawn Chair
  • Moving Objects
  • Raw
  • Jesus Hopped the A Train
  • Neutrino


Week Three:
  • School for Fools
  • Upside Down
  • Cracked
  • Mental
  • Midden

Perrier Comedy Awards

Winner:
  • Garth Marenghi's Netherhead
    Garth Marenghi's Netherhead
    Garth Marenghi's Netherhead was a low-budget comedy horror stage show written by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe...

     (Richard Ayoade
    Richard Ayoade
    Richard Ellef Ayoade is a British comedian, actor, writer and director best known for his role as Maurice Moss in The IT Crowd.Ayoade was born an only child to a Norwegian mother, Dagny , and a Nigerian father, Layide Ade Laditi Ayoade. Ayoade studied at St...

    , Matthew Holness
    Matthew Holness
    Matthew Holness is an English comedian and actor from Whitstable in Kent. He attended Chaucer Technology School in Canterbury and read English at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, where he was vice-president of the Cambridge Footlights...

     and Alice Lowe
    Alice Lowe
    Alice Lowe is an English actress and writer mainly in comedy, from the English Midlands.Lowe attended a comprehensive school and graduated from Cambridge University. She began her career co-devising and performing in surreal experimental theatre shows such as City Haunts, Snowbound and Progress In...

    )


Nominees:
  • Jason Byrne
    Jason Byrne (comedian)
    Jason Byrne is an Irish comedian born in Ballinteer, Dublin, Ireland. In August 2008, he made his twelfth Edinburgh Fringe Festival appearance and is a regular at the Kilkenny Cat Laughs comedy festival....

  • Adam Hills
    Adam Hills
    Adam Hills is an Australian comedian and television presenter. He has appeared on Australian and British television and is best known for his role hosting the Australian ABC music trivia show Spicks and Specks...

     - Go You Big Red Fire Engine
  • Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson
    Daniel Kitson is an English stand-up comedian.-Career:Born to a lecturer father and primary school head teacher mother, Kitson began performing comedy at the age of 16. He was a pupil at Scissett Middle School and Shelley College in Yorkshire, England...

     - Love, Innocence And The Word Cock
  • Dan Antopolski
    Dan Antopolski
    For the rowing coach and commentator, see Daniel TopolskiDan Antopolski is a British stand-up comic, actor and writer, mostly known for his surreal stand-up.- Stand-up comedy :Shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe include:...

     - Antopolski 2000

Best Newcomer Award

Winner:
  • Garth Cruickshank and Eddie McCabe - Let's Have a Shambles


Nominees:
  • Andy Zaltzman
    Andy Zaltzman
    Andrew "Andy" Zaltzman is a British comedian and author who largely focuses on political material. He has worked extensively with John Oliver; their work together includes Political Animal, The Department and The Bugle.-Early life:...

     versus the Dog of Doom
  • Danny Bhoy
    Danny Bhoy
    Danny Bhoy is an Indian-Scottish comedian who has performed in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and Canada...

  • Cambridge Footlights - Far too Happy (Edward Jaspers, Tim Key
    Tim Key
    Tim Key is an English actor, comedy writer, and performance poet. In 2009, he was the winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Award and was also nominated for the Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality.-Edinburgh Fringe:...

    , Dan Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson
    Mark Watson (comedian)
    Mark Andrew Watson is an English stand-up comedian and novelist.-Early life:Watson was born in Bristol to Welsh parents and attended Henleaze Junior school and then Bristol Grammar School, where he won the prize of 'Gabbler of the year', before going to Queens' College, Cambridge, where he studied...

     and Sophie Winkleman
    Sophie Winkleman
    Sophie Lara Winkleman is an English actress who has worked extensively in television, film and stage. On 14 February 2009, she became engaged to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael and Princess Michael of Kent. They married in Hampton Court on 12 September 2009...

    )
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