Funny Women
The Funny Women Awards Final 2011 took place at the Leicester Square Theatre. Photograph by Grace Lightman.
Comedy competitions are always opportunities in the industry to see exciting new acts and are often the launchpad for comedians' careers
Last week we went to the final of ; a competition dedicated to celebrating and encouraging female comedic talent.
The judges were a scarily esteemed panel of people from the industry including ±«Óãtv Arts Editor Will Gompertz, ÌýLucy Lumsden from Sky Comedy and Kate Garraway, from Daybreak Entertainment.
Whilst they deliberated, we were treated to sketches from last year's winning act - . Ìý
There were 13 comedians competing to be crowned the winner and they included sketch acts, characters, stand up and musical numbers featuring the staple of so many comedy acts - the ukelele.
Ther'es a tradition of ukelele's being featured in the final, with past ukelele-playing acts including (2010), (2007) and this year's .Ìý
After a rich array of acts including , and fast-talking, was crowned the winner, and you can expect great things from her.
Runners up this year were the stand out stand upÌýÌýand the very aimiableÌý. The variety award went to high energy sketch duoÌý.
To get an idea of what it was like, here's a clip created by Funny Women to show the best moments from the final.Ìý
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Comment number 1.
At 12th Oct 2011, Clare Harrison wrote:This is fantastic, we need more women in comedy! x
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At 17th Oct 2011, TJ wrote:I went along to the Funny Women Finlas and it was a great night. For me, Bekka Bowling should have won- she was modern and risque, young and also abit gorgoeus. She broke all of the female-comic-stereotypes. I think its rare to for an attractive girl to be so laugh out loud funny. When she walked out on stage, I wanted to hate her, but it was actually impossible. I think we'll be seeing alot more of her!!! That said, the standard was extremely high and I enjoyed all the acts.
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At 18th Oct 2011, Rajeev Sharma wrote:Women really performs nice job in comedy..'Funny women' was awesome to watch.
Bekka Bowling and her final performance show that women can do excellent .
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At 28th Oct 2011, maddy_menham wrote:Women are funny.. glad we are recognising that. Im sick of a male dominated lists of top comedy shows and everyone is male.. see: . male male male..
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