Edward Aczel
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Edward Aczel is a British stand-up comedian known for his "anti-comedy" style of clumsy delivery presenting as uninterested and lacking belief in both his material and performing skills.
His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show was described by Zadie Smith
in The New Yorker
as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen". James Kettle in The Guardian
called him "perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian".
Winner of the 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award, he was the runner-up in the 2005 BBC New Comedy Awards
and in Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol (which was filmed for the extras on Jimmy Carr’s 2005 live DVD).
His 2010 Edinburgh show featured in the BBC Comedy Collection.
His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show was described by Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith
Zadie Smith is a British novelist. To date she has written three novels. In 2003, she was included on Granta's list of 20 best young authors...
in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen". James Kettle in The Guardian
The Guardian
The Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format...
called him "perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian".
Winner of the 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award, he was the runner-up in the 2005 BBC New Comedy Awards
BBC New Comedy Awards
The BBC New Comedy Awards first appeared in 1995 and were considered to be one of the top UK comedy newcomer awards until they were axed in 2006. It was announced in the summer of 2006 that they were being replaced by a nationwide talent hunt that places its emphasis on sketch writing and filmed...
and in Jimmy Carr’s Comedy Idol (which was filmed for the extras on Jimmy Carr’s 2005 live DVD).
His 2010 Edinburgh show featured in the BBC Comedy Collection.