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Komedia New Comedy Award 2027

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KOMEDIA NEW COMEDY AWARD

IN ASSOCIATION WITH

COMIC BOOM COMEDY CLUB AND VICTORIA NANGLE

 

Komedia is pleased to announce that the Komedia New Comedy Award, in association with the award-winning Comic Boom Comedy Club and Arts Journalist Victoria Nangle is back for 2027!

Who’s behind it?

Komedia – repeatedly voted Best Comedy Cub in the South – and Comic Boom Comedy Club have been nurturing award winning comedians from their first ever gigs to being on the TV and international tours. Victoria Nangle is an experienced well-established comedy critic working across the media.

Why should you enter?-
You get to be Komedia New Act of the Year! Plus there’s a prize!

What’s the prize?
A framed winners’ certificate and a fab award to put on your mantelpiece, plus a spot at Comic Boom Comedy Club.

Who are the judges?
From all over the comedy industry.

The Semi-Finals
On Sundays 17th and 24th January – matinees and evening shows, with the final on Wednesday 10th February 2027.

How to enter

Fill in and submit the online form below (only one per person):

Applications will open on 7 September 2027 and close on 1 October 2027.

Submit Your Application

What you need

Please note incomplete or illegible applications will automatically be rejected

  • 7 minutes (minimum) of your own original stand-up comedy material.
  • To have been doing stand-up for less than 3 years, but you must be gigging regularly (open mic is fine).
  • A video (not audio) clip (youtube links only) of you performing a 7 minute (up to 10 minute max) set of your own material in front of an audience at a comedy night. 
  • It’s fine if your clip is filmed on a mobile phone, just make sure you’re clearly visible and audible. And that you’ve uploaded the clip to YouTube.
  • Your clip can be filmed on a mobile phone, please make sure you’re clearly visible & audible. 
  • A high-res promo photo that you own.
  • You must be over 18 to enter this competition.

Our judges will choose who goes through to a semi-final heat from submitted video clips.

We can only contact you if we can offer you a place in a semi-final heat. This will be by early November 2027. The judges’ decisions are final.

We can only contact you if we can offer you a place in a semi-final heat. This will be by November 3rd 2026. The judges’ decisions are final.

Komedia may use semi-finalists’ clips, photographs and biogs for promotional purposes. Please don’t enter this competition if you’re not happy with this.

Submit Your Application

To learn more about previous winners Michael Campuzano (2026) and Sydney May (2025), head over to the Komedia Blog.

To buy tickets for the semi-final heats and the grand final, please click here.

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