Our favourite skinny son-of-Southend has won the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award 2010! We are all huge fans of Russell Kane, (and so are you by all accounts – last time he graced the Playhouse stage he sold out in double quick time), so massive congratulations to him!

I wonder what he will spend the £10,000 prize on…more skinny jeans? Pleasing shirts? Quill pens? His own personal bouncy castle?

Of course, we at Norwich Playhouse like making sure we have the country’s best comedians here to amuse and entertain the Norwich population – so the next question is will Mr Kane be making his way back here in the next few months? Well…

That would be telling.

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The shortlist of nominees for the 2010 Edinburgh Comedy Awards has just been announced!

Bo Burnham, Josie Long, Sarah Millican, Greg Davies and Russell Kane are up for the much-coveted award, formerly known as the Perrier, which has been won in past years by the likes of Sean Hughes, Lee Evans, Eddie Izzard, Frank Skinner, Steve Coogan and the League of Gentlemen.

As you may have noticed – three of the five nominees are coming to the Playhouse this September and October alone. Josie Long will be here on Thursday 16 September, followed by Sarah Millican on Thursday 30 September and Friday 1 October, and then Greg Davies rounds off the trio on Saturday 30 October.

Come along and see for yourselves what all the hype is about!

Click on the image to check out the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards website…

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