BBC New Comedy Awards 2023

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BBC New Comedy Awards

Comedy: Standup

A nationwide search to find the best new stand-up talent in the UK.

Who will follow in the footsteps of some of stand-up's biggest names? Fresh new talent aim to impress famous faces in a nationwide search for the next breakout comedy star.

2023

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Guz Khan

Josh Pugh

Thanyia Moore

Colin Hoult

Geraldine Dowd

Lucy Ansbro

Lindsay Jex

BBC New Comedy Awards: 2023: Episode 5

Episode 5

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The stand-up contest heads to the Albert Hall Conference Centre in Nottingham.

The contest heads to the Albert Hall Conference Centre in Nottingham, where five more stand-up hopefuls battle it. Guz Khan hosts, while Thanyia Moore and Colin Hoult join the judging panel.

Five hopefuls will battle it out for a place in the BBC One Grand Final at Kings Theatre, Glasgow, where one will be crowned the BBC New Comedian of 2023.

We head to Nottingham in the heart of the country for the Midlands’ regional heat. The Albert Hall Conference Centre is our venue for the night – this unique former temperance hall has been at the centre of the city’s live music, concerts and productions since the 1870s. The Albert Hall is packed with over 300 comedy loving fans here to enjoy the stars of tomorrow.

Battling it out will be Tal Davies, character comedian Lorna Rose Treen, Philipp Kostelecky, Jin Hao Li and ventriloquist Lachlan Werner. Hosting the show is Hollywood actor, comedian, writer and star of Man Like Mobeen, ‘the Coventry legend’ that is Guz Khan. Joining him are three judges – actor, writer and local Nottingham comic Colin Hoult, award-winning comedian, actor and BAFTA Award-winning writer Thanyia Moore, plus our head judge, Midlands born-and-raised comedian Josh Pugh. 

The judges will watch all five acts before picking the comic they think has the best chance of lifting the trophy at the Grand Final. This is just one of six heats taking place across the UK – Bethnal Green, Bangor, Ballymena, Leith and Sunderland all play host to these comedy showdowns.

BBC New Comedy Awards: 2023

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The BBC’s multi-platform service for 16 to 34s, innovating with breakthrough comedy, stand-out entertainment, brave documentary and intellectual factual content.

The ultimate hunt for the best new comic of the UK. Thirty hopefuls battle it out across six heats to earn a place in the Grand Final, where one will be crowned the BBC New Comedian of 2023.

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