So You Think You're Funny? (SYTYF) is an annual stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy

Stand-up comedy is a comedic art form. Usually, a comedian performs in front of a live audience, speaking directly to them. Their performances are sometimes filmed for later release via DVD, the internet, and television...

 competition for new acts. The competition began in 1988 and has become the longest running best comedy newcomer award in Great Britain.. The finals are held every August at The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon is one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate. When a fire destroyed the original premises, Teviot Row House in Bristo Square became the Gilded Balloon's main venue....

 during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, past winners include Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...

, Lee Mack

Lee Mack

Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...

, Peter Kay

Peter Kay

Peter John Kay is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing , Phoenix Nights , Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours.-Early career:Peter Kay...

, and David O'Doherty

David O'Doherty

David Nicholas O'Doherty is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for...

History

So You Think You’re Funny was founded by Karen Koren in 1988. In the first year of the competition, Koren, who was also a co-founder of The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon

The Gilded Balloon is one of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe's best-known venues, established by Karen Koren in 1986 in Edinburgh's Cowgate. When a fire destroyed the original premises, Teviot Row House in Bristo Square became the Gilded Balloon's main venue....

, put up the £250 prize money herself.

Sponsorship from Channel 4

Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British public-service television broadcaster which began working on 2 November 1982. Although largely commercially self-funded, it is ultimately publicly owned; originally a subsidiary of the Independent Broadcasting Authority , the station is now owned and operated by the Channel...

 began in 1993 and was kept up until 2004, since then Channel 5 and The Paramount Comedy

Paramount Comedy

Paramount Comedy is a 24-hour Spanish cable television and satellite television comedy channel available in Spain. It is owned by MTV Networks Europe and Viacom. In other parts of the world, such as the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland and Italy, the channel is known as Comedy Central...

 Channel have been sponsors.

Winners receive £2000 and the chance to guest present a comedy programme on Paramount Comedy

Paramount Comedy

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. The winner is also given a place on the Best of British Show at the Montreal

Montreal

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 “Just For Laughs

Just for Laughs

Just for Laughs is a comedy festival held each July in Montreal, Quebec, founded in 1983. It is the largest international comedy festival in the world.- Information :...

“ Festival.

Past judges have included Steve Coogan

Steve Coogan

Stephen John "Steve" Coogan is a British comedian, actor, writer and producer. Born in Manchester, he began his career as a standup comedian and impressionist, working as a voice artist throughout the 1980s on satirical puppet show Spitting Image. In the early nineties, Coogan began creating...

, Owen O’Neill

Owen O'Neill

Owen O'Neill is an award-winning writer actor director and comedian. His short film The Basket Case won the best Irish short at the 2008 Boston Film Festival in the U.S...

, Avid Merrion (Leigh Francis

Leigh Francis

Leigh Szaak Francis is an English impressionist born in Leeds. He is best known for his work as the creator of Channel 4's Bo' Selecta!, and for his portrayal of Keith Lemon for several ITV programmes. Francis lives in Camden Town, London, and on October 31, 2003, at Allerton Castle, North...

), Bob Mortimer

Bob Mortimer

Robert "Bob" Renwick Mortimer is an English comedian and actor, who is best known for his double act with Vic Reeves...

 and former So You Think You’re Funny Winners Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran

Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...

 and Rhona Cameron

Rhona Cameron

Rhona Cameron is a Scottish comedian. She rose to prominence via the stand-up comedy circuit, and became a regular on British TV in the 1990s.-Television career:...

.

There have been many celebrity comperes for the evening, among them Eddie Izzard

Eddie Izzard

Edward John "Eddie" Izzard is a British stand-up comedian and actor. His comedy style takes the form of rambling, whimsical monologue and self-referential pantomime...

, Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey is an English comedian, musician and actor. As well as his extensive stand-up work, Bailey is well known for his appearances on Black Books, Never Mind the Buzzcocks, Have I Got News for You, and QI.Bailey was listed by The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy in...

, Graham Norton

Graham Norton

Graham William Walker, known by his stage name Graham Norton , is an Irish actor, comedian, television presenter and columnist...

 and Jo Brand

Jo Brand

Josephine Grace "Jo" Brand is a BAFTA winning British comedian, writer, and actor.- Early life :Jo Brand was born 23 July 1957 in Wandsworth, London. Her mother was a social worker. Brand is the middle of three children, with two brothers...

.

Rules and eligibility

As of 2006 rules and eligibility for entry into So You Think You’re Funny are as follows

• Performers must not have been performing regularly before the 1st September 2009 (for the 2010 competition).
• Performers must not have been paid regularly for the gigs performed
• All performers must perform 8 minutes of totally original material

Process of elimination

Each year many applications are received, the numbers are reduced through heats around the UK

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 & Ireland

Ireland

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 in which a panel of judges pick three competitors to go on to the second round, which take place during the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. During this round the judges pick one winner from each heat, who goes through to the grand final, which takes place towards the end of the Fringe.

Winners & finalists

1988

• Bruce Morton
  Bruce Morton
  Bruce Morton was a television news correspondent for both CBS News and CNN in a career which spanned over 40 years....
  
   (Winner)

1989

• Phil Kay
  Phil Kay
  Phil Kay is a Scottish stand-up comedian.-Early career:Kay became known to the public when he won the newcomer's competition, 'So You Think You're Funny', at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1989. He then went on to be nominated for the prestigious Perrier Award in 1993. He also won the award for...
  
   (Winner)

1990

• Trio Brothers (Rab Christie & Greg Hemphill
  Greg Hemphill
  Gregory "Greg" Hemphill is a Scottish actor and comedian. He has also presented on television and radio. Along with his comedy partner, Ford Kiernan, he is best known in the United Kingdom for his appearances in Still Game and Chewin' the Fat.-Personal life:Hemphill was born in Glasgow, Scotland,...
  
  ) (Winners)

1991

• Alan Francis (Winner)

1992

• Rhona Cameron
  Rhona Cameron
  Rhona Cameron is a Scottish comedian. She rose to prominence via the stand-up comedy circuit, and became a regular on British TV in the 1990s.-Television career:...
  
   (Winner)

1993

• Dylan Moran
  Dylan Moran
  Dylan Moran is an Irish stand-up comedian, writer, actor and filmmaker. He is best known for his sardonic observational comedy, the UK television sitcom Black Books , and his work with Simon Pegg in Shaun of the Dead and Run Fatboy Run...
  
   (Winner)
  • Steve Furst
    Steve Furst
    Steven Larry Furst is a comedian, actor and writer. Furst says his father told him that he arrived as an immigrant from Hungary with "nothing but a violin under my arm"...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Michael Smiley
    Michael Smiley
    Michael Smiley is a British comic and actor currently living in England.-Biography:Smiley was born in 1963 in Belfast, and moved to London in his 20s with his wife...
    
     (Finalist)

1994

• Martin Trenaman
  Martin Trenaman
  Martin Trenaman is an English comedy writer and actor, who has contributed to many modern comedy series.Winner of So You Think You're Funny? in 1994, Martin has gone on to write additional material for shows such as Head on Comedy, Lenny Henry in Pieces and Haywire, and comedians such as Harry...
  
   (Winner)

1995

• Lee Mack
  Lee Mack
  Lee Gordon McKillop is an English stand-up comedian and actor, known by the stage name Lee Mack. He is well known in the United Kingdom for writing and starring in the sitcom Not Going Out, for being a team captain on Would I Lie to You? and for hosting Lee Mack's All Star Cast.-Personal life:Mack...
  
   (Winner)

1996

• Tommy Tiernan
  Tommy Tiernan
  Tommy Tiernan is an Irish comedian, actor and writer. He and Hector Ó hEochagáin present The Tommy and Hector Show on i102-104FM. Tiernan also featured in Father Ted.-Early life:...
  
   (Winner)
  • Valentine Flyguy (Finalist)
  • John Henderson (Finalist)
  • Patrick McDonnell
    Patrick McDonnell
    Patrick McDonnell is the creator of the daily comic strip Mutts. He has also illustrated Russell Baker's Sunday Observer column in The New York Times magazine and created the monthly comic strip Bad Baby for Parents magazine...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Justine Clay (Finalist)
  • David Keay (Finalist)
  • 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....
    
     (Finalist)

1997

• Peter Kay
  Peter Kay
  Peter John Kay is an English comedian, writer, actor, director and producer. His work includes That Peter Kay Thing , Phoenix Nights , Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere , Britain's Got the Pop Factor... and other independent productions which have included two sell out tours.-Early career:Peter Kay...
  
   (Winner)
  • Nick Doody
    Nick Doody
    Nick Doody is a British stand-up comedian. He features frequently as a guest on radio broadcasts such as Political Animal and vox-pop television shows, although he is known primarily as a live stand-up comic....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Paul Foot
    Paul Foot (comedian)
    Paul Foot is an English comedian. He commands a significant cult following called The Guild of Connoisseurs. Foot is known for his musings, rants, 'disturbances' and apparent aversion to pop culture...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Jonathan Gunning (Finalist)
  • Stephen Morrison (Finalist)
  • TJ Murphy (FInalist)
  • Rod Woodward
    Rod Woodward
    Rod Woodward was a defensive back in the Canadian Football League for twelve years. Woodward won the Grey Cup as a member of the Ottawa Rough Riders in 1973 and 1976.-External links:*...
    
     (Finalist)

1998

• Rob Rouse
  Rob Rouse
  Rob Rouse is an English comedian known for his hyperactive brand of humour.-Overview:Before becoming a comedian, Rouse was a geography teacher...
  
   (Winner)
  • Moz (Finalist)
  • Caroline Quinlan
    Carrie Quinlan
    Carrie Quinlan is a British actress, comedy writer and journalist. She mainly works in satire for BBC radio comedy, writing material for satirical comedies such as The Now Show. She is also a regular panellist on The News Quiz. She is the youngest child of Mary and Michael Quinlan.-History:Quinlan...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Stuart Stanley (Finalist)
  • Alex Zane
    Alex Zane
    Alex Zane is an English television presenter and DJ.-Background:Zane was born in Leeds and attended Boston Spa School before going on to study Medicine at University College London, a course which he left after a year, and then Media and Communications at Goldsmiths College.-Stand-up comedy and...
    
     (Finalist)
  • 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:...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald D Hunter
    Reginald Darnell Hunter is an American stand-up comedian who works mainly in the United Kingdom.-Early life:Hunter was born in Albany, Georgia. He was the youngest of nine children. His mother beat him regularly; she died in 2004....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Nadine Lennard (Finalist)
  • Kevin Hill
    Kevin Hill
    Kevin Hill is an American legal drama that aired on UPN during the 2004-2005 TV season.-Synopsis:The series stars Taye Diggs as the title character, a lawyer who has to balance his professional career and his love life with having custody of Sarah, his 10 month old cousin...
    
     (Finalist)

1999

• David O'Doherty
  David O'Doherty
  David Nicholas O'Doherty is a Perrier Award winning Irish stand-up comedian, author, musician, actor and playwright. His stand-up has won two awards at the Edinburgh Fringe, Best Newcomer first of all and the if.comedy award in 2008 for his show Let's Comedy. He has been nominated twice more for...
  
   (Winner)
  • Josie Long
    Josie Long
    Josie Long is an English comedian.-Background:Long spent her early life in Orpington, South East London, where she attended Newstead Wood School for Girls in Swift House. She also attended GIFT Ltd. summer schools. She began performing stand-up comedy at 14, winning the BBC New Comedy Awards at...
    
     (Finalist)
  • 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:...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Russell Howard
    Russell Howard
    Russell Joseph Howard is an English comedian best known for his TV show Russell Howard's Good News and his appearances on the topical panel TV show Mock The Week...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Juliet Cowan
    Juliet Cowan
    -Career:She may be recognizable to fans of ITV1 cop drama The Bill when she guest starred in over 20 episodes as Julie Saunders, the mother of the boy who accused PC Tony Stamp of sexual assault...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Richard Morris (Finalist)

2000

• Drew Rokos
  Drew Rokos
  Drew Rokos is an Australian comedian who won both the 2000 Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy competition and the Edinburgh Comedy Festival's So You Think You're Funny competition.-References:...
  
   (Winner)
• Des Clarke (runner-up)
  • Jason Manford
    Jason Manford
    Jason John Manford is an English comedian, television presenter and actor.- Early life :Manford was born to an Irish family in Salford, Greater Manchester, a son of Sharon , who is a Catholic and Ian Manford. He grew up in poverty in a terraced house in Manchester...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Matt and McKinnon (Finalist)
  • Francesca Martinez
    Francesca Martinez
    Francesca Martinez is an English stand-up comedienne and actress. She has toured internationally, including sell-out runs at the Edinburgh Festival, the Melbourne Comedy Festival and the Just For Laughs Festival in Montreal...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Les Hommes Sans Nommes (Finalist)
  • Mark Dolan
    Mark Dolan
    Mark Dolan is an English comedian, writer and TV presenter. Dolan was born in Camden, North London, where he eventually returned and now lives with his wife and son.-Television:...
    
     (Finalist)

2001

• Miles Jupp
  Miles Jupp
  Miles Jupp is a British actor and comedian, probably best known as Archie in the children's television series Balamory....
  
   (Winner)
• Stefano Paolini (2nd Place)
• Alan Carr
  Alan Carr
  Alan Carr is an English comedian and television personality. Born in Weymouth, he was raised in Northampton before moving to Manchester during his early 20's....
  
   (Joint 3rd Place)
• Michael Downey (Joint 3rd Place)
  • Seymour Mace (Finalist)
  • Hils Barker
    Hils Barker
    Hils Barker is a British comedian and writer. She was a finalist in newcomer competitions So You Think You're Funny and The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, and went on to write and perform in two series of comedy show Radio9 for BBC Radio 4....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Inder Manocha
    Inder Manocha
    -Early life:Born in London to Indian parents, Manocha read Modern History at Jesus College, Oxford University and worked in international relations and as a therapist before deciding to work professionally in comedy and acting in 2001...
    
     (Finalist)
  • John Bishop
    John Bishop (comedian)
    John Joseph Bishop is an award-winning comedian.His television debut came on The Panel. As an actor, he has appeared in the E4 teen drama Skins as Mr Fitch, father of twins, Katie and Emily and in the Ken Loach film Route Irish...
    
     (Finalist)
  • The Reverend Obadiah Steppenwolfe III (Finalist)

2002

• Matthew Osborn (Winner)
• 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...
  
   (2nd Place)
• Nina Conti
  Nina Conti
  Nina Conti is a British actress, comedian and ventriloquist. Her on-stage puppet sidekick is a depressed monkey named Monk.- Early life :...
  
   (3rd Place)
  • Michael Anderson (Finalist)
  • Andy Bone (Finalist)
  • Greg Davies
    Greg Davies
    Greg Davies is a British stand-up comedian, actor, and former teacher, best known for his roles as Greg in We Are Klang and Mr. Gilbert in The Inbetweeners. He has performed on the BBC's Live at the Apollo series....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Rhod Gilbert
    Rhod Gilbert
    Rhodri "Rhod" Gilbert, is a Welsh comedian who was nominated in 2005 for the Perrier Best Newcomer Award. In 2008, he was nominated for the main if.comedy ....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Rufus Hound
    Rufus Hound
    Rufus Hound is a British comedian and presenter. He is also the winner of 2010 "Let's Dance for Comic Relief".-Career:...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Greg McHugh
    Greg McHugh
    Greg McHugh is a Scottish actor and writer. He is the creator, writer and star of the BBC1 comedy series Gary: Tank Commander. He won a BAFTA for the show.He graduated from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama in Glasgow....
    
     (Finalist)

2003

• Tom Wrigglesworth
  Tom Wrigglesworth
  Tom Wrigglesworth is an English stand-up comedian from Sheffield, Yorkshire. He has won the comedy newcomer award So You Think You're Funny? at the 2003 Edinburgh Festival Fringe. In 2006 he performed with fellow comedian Tom Allen as a part of the show Allen and Wrigglesworth. In 2009 he was...
  
   (Winner)
• Andrew Lawrence (2nd Place)
• Stuart Hudson (3rd Place)
  • Anna Crilly
    Anna Crilly
    Anna Crilly is an English actress and comedian. Secondary school: Kent College, Pembury. Crilly attended Middlesex University where she studied performing arts...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Michael Fabbri
    Michael Fabbri
    Michael Fabbri is an English stand up comedian based in Brighton. In 2003 he reached the final of So You Think You're Funny. As well as performing all over the world, he has also done two solo shows: 'Dumbing Up' and 'Michael Fabbri' . His television appearances include Asia Uncut on TV Asia and...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Anne Keirle (Finalist)
  • Matt Kirshen
    Matt Kirshen
    Matt Kirshen is a British comedian. Kirshen has performed around the world, including Singapore, Dubai, Holland, Germany, and France. In 2007, he enjoyed a successful run in NBC's Last Comic Standing...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Rodney Marques (Finalist)
  • Ed Petrie
    Ed Petrie
    Edward 'Ed' Oliver James Petrie is a British actor, comedian and television presenter. He was born, and grew up in, the seaside resort of Rustington, and was educated at Broadwater Manor in Worthing and the independent school Ardingly College in the village of Ardingly in West Sussex...
    
     (Finalist)

2004

• Nick Sun
  Nick Sun
  Nick Sun is an Australian stand-up comedian. He is of Nepalese extraction, but chooses to eschew obvious cultural stereotyping in his act, favouring a style that has been described as "unhinged", "offensive" "nihilistic" and "self-destructive."...
  
   (Winner)
• Russell Kane
  Russell Kane
  Russell Kane is an English writer, comedian, actor and media personality. In June 2006, he became the face of digital station Five US. He has been nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Awards at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, winning the main prize in August 2010...
  
   (2nd Place)
• Chris McCausland
  Chris McCausland
  Chris McCausland is a British stand-up comedian. He regularly appears at comedy venues around the UK, including the Comedy Store and Jongleurs chain of clubs.-Early life:McCausland is originally from Liverpool, and now living in Surrey....
  
   (3rd Place)
  • Rob Collins
    Rob Collins
    Rob Collins is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who currently plays for the Deutsche Eishockey Liga's Hamburg Freezers.-Playing career:...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Jarleth Regan
    Jarleth Regan
    Jarlath Regan is an Irish stand-up comedian. A former graphic designer, Regan began his stand-up comedy career in 2003 and by the end of 2004 was a finalist for three major UK comedy newcomer awards: So You Think You're Funny, BBC New Comedy Awards and the Chortle Student Comedian Of The Year...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Zoe Lyons
    Zoe Lyons
    -Stand-up Career:Lyons graduated from the University of York in 1992 with a degree in psychology; in 2004 she was crowned winner of the Funny Women Awards. Since then, she has toured the UK stand up circuit, as well as playing regular gigs in London and Brighton...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Susan Taylor (Finalist)
  • Rose Heiney (Finalist)
  • Lee Bannard (Finalist)

2005

• Tom Allen
  Tom Allen (comedian)
  Tom Allen is an English stand up comedian actor and writer.At the age of 22 Allen won the UK's most prestigious comedy newcomer award So You Think You're Funny in 2005. The same year he won the BBC New Comedy Awards...
  
   (Winner)
• Sarah Millican
  Sarah Millican
  Sarah Millican is an English stand-up comedian. Millican won the if.comedy award for Best Newcomer at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.-Career:...
  
   (2nd Place)
• Joe Wilkinson (3rd Place)
  • Charlie Baker (Finalist)
  • Kevin Bridges
    Kevin Bridges
    Kevin Bridges is a Scottish stand-up comedian.-Stand-up:Bridges began performing on the small stage when he left school shortly after his 17th birthday, doing stand-up comedy gigs at The Stand Comedy Club in Glasgow and then throughout the UK. At 18 he reached the final of Channel 5's So you think...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Robert Broderick
    Robert Broderick
    Rob Broderick is an Irish stand-up comedian who was born in Dublin but who now lives and works in London. He improvised his way into the final of the prestigious So You Think You're Funny competition at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival Fringe....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Emma Fryer
    Emma Fryer
    Emma Fryer is a British stand-up comedian, actress and writer from Coventry, best known for playing Tania in BBC Three's Ideal, Janine in E4's PhoneShop and Gaynor in BBC 2's Home Time, which she co-wrote with Neil Edmond....
    
     (Finalist)
  • Stuart Goldsmith
    Stuart Goldsmith
    Stuart Goldsmith is a UK-based actor, stand-up comedian and street performer.Goldsmith plays the role of Caleb in the CBBC sci-fi gameshow Mission: 2110.Goldsmith is also a stand-up comedian...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Josh Thomas
    Josh Thomas (comedian)
    Joshua Michael "Josh" Thomas is an Australian comedian. In 2005, at the age of 17, he became the youngest ever winner of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival's Raw Comedy Competition...
    
     (Finalists)

2006

• Wes Packer
  Wes Packer
  Wes Packer is a Welsh comedian from Rhondda.He began his career in the Poncho Club in Cardiff in 2005 and in August 2006 he won the UK's most prestigious comedy Newcomer award So You Think You're Funny, at which point he was still employed as a computer programmer for his local council...
  
   (Winner)
• Hannah Gadsby
  Hannah Gadsby
  Hannah Gadsby is an award-winning Australian comedian. She quickly rose to prominence after winning the national final of the Raw Comedy competition for new comedians in 2006...
  
   (2nd Place)
• Ginger & Black (3rd Place)
  • Andrew Watts (Finalist)
  • Alan Bennett
    Alan Bennett (comedian)
    Alan Bennett is an Irish comedian from Limerick who was a finalist in So You Think You're Funny final in 2006. One reviewer described him as a deadpan act who offered up some quirky ideas, but didn't go anywhere with them.-References:...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Caroline Clifford (Finalist)
  • Raph Shirley (Finalist)
  • Holly Walsh
    Holly Walsh (comedian)
    Holly Walsh is an English comedian and comedy writer from Guildford in Surrey, known mainly for her work on TV and radio in the UK.- Early life :...
    
     (Finalist)
  • Marlon Davis
    Marlon Davis
    Marlon Davis is an American football offensive lineman who is currently a free agent. He was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent in 2009. He played college football at Alabama....
    
     (Finalist)

2007

• Richard Sandling
  Richard Sandling
  Richard Sandling is a British Comedian, Film Reviewer, Presenter, Writer, Director, Actor and Musician from South Benfleet. He won So You Think You're Funny in 2007.-Career:...
  
   (Winner)
• Ben Davis (2nd Place)
• Joanne Lau
  Joanne Lau
  Joanne Lau is a Chinese-Canadian stand-up comedian based in London, and a finalist in the Laughing Horse New Act of The Year competition for 2007.-External links:* http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=152152645...
  
   (3rd Place)
  • Toby Whithouse
    Toby Whithouse
    Toby Whithouse is an English actor, stand-up comedian and screenwriter. His highest-profile work has been the creation of the BBC Three supernatural television series Being Human. He also created the Channel 4 television drama series No Angels , and has written for BBC One's Hotel Babylon and...
    
    
  • Carl Hutchison
  • Daniel Rigby
    Daniel Rigby
    Daniel Rigby is an English television and stage actor.He attended Cheadle Hulme School and studied performing arts at Stockport College. He became one of the youngest students from the college to be accepted by the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art...
    
    
  • Gar Murrin
  • Jack Whitehall
    Jack Whitehall
    Jack Peter Benedict Whitehall is an English comedian, television presenter and actor, best known for hosting the E4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth in 2008, Celebrity Big Brother's Big Mouth in January 2009, and the Channel 4 topical entertainment show the TNT Show.-Early life:Whitehall was born in...
    
    
  • James Marsh

2008

• Daniel Simonsen (Winner)
• Seann Walsh
  Seann Walsh
  Seann Walsh is a young English comedian signed to Off the Kerb Management. He is a graduate of Jill Edwards' Comedy workshop and performed his first gig in November 2006. He has won several awards, including Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year and Chortle Best Newcomer . Walsh has supported...
  
   (2nd Place)
  • Sara Pascoe
    Sara Pascoe
    Sara Pascoe is a British writer, stand-up comedian, and actress.Pascoe has appeared in a number of television programmes, including The Thick of It and Being Human, as well as all-female sketch show Girl Friday , which she co-wrote.In August 2010, Pascoe performed her first show at Edinburgh, Sara...
    
    
  • Ahir Shah
  • John Gavin
    John Gavin
    John Gavin is an American film actor and a former United States Ambassador to Mexico. Gavin is half Mexican and fluent in Spanish....
    
    
  • Josh Widdicombe
    Josh Widdicombe
    -Career:Widdicombe began performing live in 2008, and made it to the final of 'So You Think You're Funny' at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival during the same year. Widdicombe has performed at the Fringe Festival every year since, co-writing and performing in the sketch show Superclump in 2009. He also...
    
    
  • Gearoid Farrelly
    Gearoid Farrelly
    Gearoid Farrelly is an Irish comedian. He was a finalist in So You Think You're Funny and the winner of the Bulmers Nuthin' Butt Funny Comedy Award, which earned him supporting acts with Rich Hall and Michael Winslow as part of the Bulmer's Comedy festival. In October 2008 he performed at the...
    
    
  • Richard Perry
    Richard Perry
    Richard Perry is an American music producer. Perry began as a performer in his adolescence, but shifted gears after graduating college and rose through the late 1960s and early 1970s to become a highly successful and popular record producer with over a dozen gold records to his credit by 1982...
    
    
  • Daniel Sloss
    Daniel Sloss
    Daniel Sloss is a British comedian, actor and writer, notable for having started standup comedy as a 19-year-old teenager and having become established as a professional live and television performer whilst still in his teens...
    
    
  • Doc Brown

2009

• Ivo Graham (Winner)
• Kevin Shevlin (2nd Place)
• Naz Osmanoglu
  Naz Osmanoglu
  HIH Prince Şehzade Nazım Ziyaeddin Nazım Osmanoğlu , more commonly known as Naz Osmanoglu, is a British comedian and nineteenth in line to Turkey's former Ottoman throne. Osmanoglu is the winner of the 2009 "Amused Moose Laugh-off", runner-up in "So You Think You're Funny" in 2009, and member of...
  
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  • Richard Bowen
  • Winston Smith
  • Robin Buckland
  • Mark Simmons
  • Jim Campbell
  • Kai Humphries

2010

• James Kirk (Winner)
• Liam Williams (2nd Place)
• Rob Beckett (3rd Place)
  • Chris Turner
  • Laura Carr
  • Alex Clissold-Jones
  • Pete Dobbing
  • Matt Richardson
  • Romesh Ranganathan