Edward Aczel is a British stand-up comedian known for his " anti-comedy" style of clumsy delivery presenting as uninterested and lacking belief in both his material and performing skills. His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, "Do I Really Have to Communicate with You?", was described by

Zadie Smith Zadie Smith (born Sadie; 25 October 1975) is an English novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. Her debut novel, ''White Teeth'' (2000), immediately became a best-seller and won a number of awards. She became a tenured professor in the ...

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as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen". James Kettle in

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called him "perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian". Winner of the 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award, he was the runner-up in the 2005 BBC New Comedy Awards and in Jimmy Carr's Comedy Idol (which was filmed for the extras on

Jimmy Carr James Anthony Patrick Carr (born 15 September 1972) is an Irish-British comedian, presenter, writer and actor. He is known for his rapid-fire deadpan delivery of One-line joke, one-liners. He began his comedy career in 1997, and he has regula ...

's 2005 live DVD). His 2010 Edinburgh show featured in the BBC Comedy Collection. In 2020, he appeared in an episode of the soap opera

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External links

Edward Aczel on Chortle

Edward Aczel on The British Comedy Guide

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