The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th

Edinburgh Festival Fringe The Edinburgh Festival Fringe (also referred to as the Edinburgh Fringe, the Fringe or the Edinburgh Fringe Festival) is the world's largest performance arts festival, which in 2024 spanned 25 days, sold more than 2.6 million tickets and featur ...

. The Fringe ran from 5–27 August 2001 and presented 1462 shows over 176 venues.

Awards

Theatre

Scotsman Fringe First Awards

Week One: *''Gagarin Way'' *''Runt'' *''Like Thunder'' *''Bedbound'' *''Ferdydurke'' Week Two: *''Man in the Flying Lawn Chair'' *''Moving Objects'' *''Raw'' *''Jesus Hopped the A Train'' *''Neutrino'' Week Three: *''School for Fools'' *''Upside Down'' *''Cracked'' *''Mental'' *''Midden''

Comedy

Perrier Comedy Awards

Winner: *

Garth Marenghi's Netherhead ''Garth Marenghi's Netherhead'' was a low-budget comedy horror stage show written by Matthew Holness and Richard Ayoade, and starring Holness, Ayoade and Alice Lowe. It was performed at the 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it won the Perrie ...

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Richard Ayoade Richard Ayoade ( ; born 23 May 1977) is a British comedian, actor, writer, director and presenter. He played the role of socially awkward IT technician Maurice Moss in Channel 4 sitcom ''The IT Crowd'' (2006–2013), for which he won the 2014 Br ...

Matthew Holness Matthew James Holness (born 1975) is an English comedian, director, author, plus actor. He is known for creating and portraying the fictional horror author Garth Marenghi. Early life and education Born in Whitstable, Kent, Holness became a fa ...

and

Alice Lowe Alice Eva Lowe (born 3 April 1977)England & Wales births 1837 – 2006 is an English actress, writer, director, and comedian. She has appeared as Dr. Haynes in '' Black Mirror: Bandersnatch'' and Madeleine Wool/Liz Asher in ''Garth Marenghi's ...

) Nominees: * Jason Byrne *

Adam Hills Adam Christopher Hills (born 10 July 1970) is an Australian comedian, radio and television presenter. In Australia, he hosted the music quiz show '' Spicks and Specks'' from 2005 to 2011, and again in 2021 onwards, and the talk show '' Adam Hi ...

- ''Go You Big Red Fire Engine'' *

Daniel Kitson Daniel John Kitson (born 2 July 1977) is an English comedian, actor, performer and writer. Early life Daniel John Kitson was born in Denby Dale on 2 July 1977, the son of a primary school headteacher mother and a lecturer father. He was a pupi ...

- ''Love, Innocence And The Word Cock'' *

Dan Antopolski Dan Antopolski (born 22 August 1972) is a British comic, actor and writer. He has appeared in various television programs and radio shows, and is best known to younger audiences for hosting the UK game show ''The Dare Devil''. In 1998 Antopol ...

- ''Antopolski 2000''

=Best Newcomer Award

= Winner: *Garth Cruickshank and Eddie McCabe - ''Let's Have a Shambles'' Nominees: *''

Andy Zaltzman Andrew Zaltzman (born 6 October 1974) is a British comedian and statistician. His comedy largely deals in political and sport-related material. He has worked with John Oliver, with their work together including '' Political Animal'', ''The Dep ...

versus the Dog of Doom'' *

Danny Bhoy Danny Bhoy (born Danni Chaudhry on 16 January 1975) is a Scottish comedian who has performed in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Canada, Sweden, and the United States. Early life Bhoy was born in Moffat, Scotland, as one of four ...

Cambridge Footlights The Cambridge Footlights, commonly referred to simply as Footlights, is a student sketch comedy troupe located in Cambridge, England. Footlights was founded in 1883, and is one of Britain's oldest student sketch comedy troupes. The comedy so ...

- ''Far too Happy'' (Edward Jaspers,

Tim Key Timothy Key (born 2 September 1976) is an English poet, comedian, actor and screenwriter. He has performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, both as a solo act and as part of the comedy group Cowards (comedy troupe), Cowards, and plays Alan Pa ...

, Dan Macaskill, James Morris,

Mark Watson Mark Andrew Watson (born 13 February 1980) is an English comedian, novelist and producer. Early life Watson was born in Bristol to a Welsh people, Welsh mother and English father. He has younger twin sisters and a brother, Paul Watson (footba ...

and

Sophie Winkleman Sophie Lara Winkleman (born 5 August 1980), styled as Lady Frederick Windsor, is a British actress. She is married to Lord Frederick Windsor, the son of Prince Michael of Kent and second cousin of King Charles III. Early life Sophie Lara Win ...

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References

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