10th ANNUAL BARRY AWARDS
Saturday 28 April @ 11.15pm
The closing night of the Festival Club is also the Barry Awards night.
2007 WINNERS
This year the winner of the 2007 Barry Award was Daniel Kitson for his show 'its the fireworks talking'.
The best newcomer was 19-year-old Josh Thomas and the festival director's prize went to Justin Hamilton for this three-hour "trilogy" show. The Golden Gibbo Award, went to The Glass Boat and the Piece Of Wood Award for "good stuff" went to British comic Andy Zaltzman. The Age Critics' Award for best Australian show went to Lawrence Leung for Lawrence Leung Learns To Breakdance.
The Barry Award
Launched in 1998 as the 'Stella Award' and renamed in 2000 to honour the Festival's founding patron Barry Humphries, the Barry Award recognises the most outstanding Festival show. The winner gets fame, glory, a snazzy trophy and an all-important cheque.
Past winners:
2006: Demetri Martin Dr Earnest Parrot presents Demetri Martin
2005: The Drowsy Drivers Keating! The Opera
2004: Maria Bamford
2003: Mike Wilmot
2002: Ross Noble
2001: Brian Munich Brian Munich & Friends
2000: The Boosh Artic Boosh
1999: Sue Ann Post G Strings and Jockstraps
1998: Linda Haggar and Fahey Younger Miss Itchy's Crθme De Menthe Breakfast Show
The Age Critics' Award
The Age Critics' Award is the reviewers' gong. In recent years, it has become The Age Critics' choice for the best local act.
Past winners:
2006: Judith Lucy I Failed
2005: The Drowsy Drivers Keating! The Opera
2004: The Kransky Sisters We Don't Have Husbands
2003: Paul McDermott, Cameron Bruce and Mick Moriarty GUD UGH /Denise Scott, Judith Lucy and Lynda Gibson Comedy Is Still Not Pretty
2002: Ross Noble
2001: Brian Munich Brian Munich & Friends
The Melbourne Airport Best Newcomer Award
The winner of this award for the best first-timer at the Festival gets a trip to the Brighton Comedy Festival in the UK, thanks to Melbourne Airport.
Click here to view the details of each winner
Past winners:
2006: Sammy J Sammy J's 55 Minute National Tour
2005: Christina Adams To Miss With Love
2004: The Kransky Sisters We Don't Have Husbands / Eddie Perfect Angry Eddie
2003: Flight of the Conchords
2002: Jim Russell, Marty Sheargold and Aidan Fennessy The Trade / The Drowsy Drivers Northcote Country Soul
2001: Fiona O'Loughlin Fiona and her sister (and some guy) / Cal Wilson Hello Kitty
2000: Gerard McCulloch An Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman walk into a documentary / Emma Bathgate The Dilapidated Diva
The Golden Gibbo
In memory of the late, great Lynda Gibson, who passed away in 2004, the Golden Gibbo is awarded to a local, independent show that bucks trends and pursues the artist's idea more strongly than it pursues any commercial lure.
Past winners:
2006: Greg Bird Cliffy is Relaxed and Comfortable
2005: The Drowsy Drivers Keating! The Opera
2004: Jeremy & Jo Randerson in Carry On Randerson / Eddie Perfect - Angry Eddie
The Piece of Wood Award
The comics' choice gong is a beloved (and much bitten) piece of wood. Selected by an ever-growing committee of comedians (as each year's winner is entitled to join the voting process), it is awarded to comics for doing good stuff n' that.
Past winners:
2006: Damian Callinan / Fiona O'Loughlin
2005: Tony Law
2004: Andrew McClelland
2003: Justin Hamilton
2002: Michael Chamberlin / Charlie Pickering
2001: Rich Fulcher
2000: Stewart Lee
1999 Simon Munnery
1998 Linda Hagger / Fahey Younger
The Directors' Choice Award
The Directors' Choice is awarded by the Comedy Festival Director, in consultation with other visiting Festival Directors, to a fabulous show that somehow missed out on any other prize.
Past winners:
2006: Men of Steel / Nick Sun Blood on the Yolks in the Key of Owls
2005: Tim Minchin - Darkside
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