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	The Edinburgh festival 2004 -- Perrier Awards 2004
		The winners, and the nominees, will be appearing in the Perrier Comedy Award Season in London's West End at Her Majesty's Theatre where the winner will be presented with a trophy and a cheque for £7,500.
		Nica Burns, Director of the Award said "This extraordinary win has to be the ultimate Edinburgh fringe fairy story.
		Congratulations to actor, Will Adamsdale, who has carried off the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award over a very strong shortlist with this, his first ever comedy show- a show so strong that it jumped over the Newcomers Award shortlist to go straight on to the main list.
	www.edinburghguide.com /festival/2004/fringe/perrier_awards.shtml (310 words)

	Perrier Comedy Award - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Perrier Comedy Award is a prestigious award for comedy, awarded to the best comedy show at the Edinburgh Fringe sponsored by the Perrier brand of bottled water.
		In 1995 Perrier was bought by Nestle, whose ambivalent relationship with the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes led to calls to boycott the awards, which are slowly being taken up by fringe venues and performers on an individual basis.
		In the light of Nestle's ownership of Perrier, former winners Emma Thompson and Steve Coogan have both called for the awards to be scrapped and Rob Newman led a high profile campaign of protest in 2001
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Perrier_Comedy_Award (395 words)

	Perrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Perrier is a brand of bottled mineral water made from a spring in Vergèze in the Gard département of France.
		Perrier is carbonated; its gas content is reinforced with the gas emanating from the spring.
		Source Perrier shifted from explanation to explanation on the issue, finally stating that it was an isolated incident of a worker having made a mistake in the filtering procedure and that the spring itself was completely unpolluted.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/P/Perrier.htm (359 words)

	Edinburgh People's Festival News: 2004 Tap Water Awards
		The Tap Water Awards aim to highlight the struggles against the privatization of water, and are dedicated to supporting collective, communal systems that respond directly to the needs of the poor.
		The Tap Water Awards were set up after the media became aware of the Bongo Club’s decision not to participate in the Perrier Comedy awards in 2001.
		Perrier has hijacked the comedians talents, and is riding on their backs.
	www.edinburghpeoplesfestival.org.uk /blog/2004/07/2004-tap-water-awards.html (388 words)

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	Press Release 25th August 2001
		The Perrier Comedy Award boycott comes to a head this weekend as the Edinburgh Festival draws to an end.
		The corporate-free alternative to the Perrier Comedy Awards, the Tap Water Awards, were organised by Out of the Blue and held at the Bongo Club on Thursday 23th August from 10.30pm.
		Because these Awards began quite spontaneously for this, the first year, it was not possible to organise a proper judging panel to review all the acts.
	www.babymilkaction.org /press/press25aug01.html (1129 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Arts special reports \| Fringe award offers leg-up to playwrights
		Their award is an attempt to compensate for lack of government support for playwriting.
		The winner of the award will be given £5,000 towards staging an outstanding piece of new writing at next year's Fringe, chosen by a panel including Russell and Firth, who have returned to Edinburgh this year with a double-act called The Singing Playwrights.
		The Fringe director, Paul Gudgin, said he felt the new award could help raise the profile of theatre in a landscape dominated by stand-up comedy, with the Perrier award casting a long shadow: "The prizes I am keen to support are those with a proper, tangible benefit for the winner.
	www.guardian.co.uk /arts/edinburgh2004/story/0,14762,1282024,00.html (743 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Special reports \| Spoof horror writer wins £5,000 Perrier award
		This year, however, the award scheme was attacked by former winners Rob Newman and Emma Thompson, who backed calls for a boycott by the group Baby Milk Action because of the involvement of Perrier's owners, Nestlé;, in marketing powdered baby milk in developing countries.
		Other critics, however, said the awards, which were celebrating their 21st anniversary this year, had lost their edge and had been devalued by the lack of female nominees.
		The award is still considered one of the biggest accolades in comedy, however, and previous winners, including Steve Coogan, Frank Skinner and the League of Gentlemen, have used it as a springboard for their showbiz careers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /edinburghfestival2001/story/0,10640,543033,00.html (576 words)

	Tommy Tiernan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Tiernan was born in 1970, Navan, County Meath, in the Republic of Ireland.
		Patrick's Classical School in Navan, a former Roman Catholic junior seminary which remarkably produced two winners of the prestigious Perrier Comedy Award in the 1990s.
		Won the 1998 Perrier Comedy Award at the Edinburgh Festival.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tommy_Tiernan (170 words)

	Guardian \| Woman nominee adds fizz to Perrier shortlist
		Awards director Nica Burns, who has taken much flak in recent years for the lack of female nominees, said she was absolutely thrilled that the 2004 judging panel had included a woman.
		The final nomination goes to Epitaph, the physical comedy double of Adrian Wenner and Ethan Sandler, who base their show She's Dead: Move On, around the untimely passing of a girlfriend.
		The Perrier award is still considered one of the biggest accolades in comedy and previous winners, including Steve Coogan, Frank Skinner and the League of Gentlemen, have used it as a springboard for their careers.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5001851-113940,00.html (577 words)

	Press Release 23rd August 2001
		The corporate free alternative to the Perrier Comedy Awards, the Tap Water Awards, are being organised by Out of the Blue and will be held at the Bongo Club on Thursday 23th August from 10.30pm.
		All entrants to these awards have pledged not to be in the running for the Perrier.
		The Awards will be judged by a panel including Mark Wilson (Deputy Arts Editor - The Independent) who was on the panel for the Perrier Awards in 2000.
	www.babymilkaction.org /press/press23aug01.html (967 words)

	comedy cv - the UK's largest collection of comedians biogs and photos (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Since winning the BBC New Comedy Award in 1998, Dan Antopolski has quickly built himself a reputation for being one of the most inventive, intelligent, edgy and unusual comics to emerge in years.
		His Perrier Award nomination at the Edinburgh Festival 2001 followed a Perrer Best Newcomer Award nomination in 2000, and he also received critical acclaim for his part in the Perrier Award nominated Lee Mack's New Bits at the Edinburgh Festival 2000.
		He recently travelled to Melbourne to appear in The World Comedy Series, which will be screened on Comedy Central in the USA and on The Paramount Comedy Channel in the UK.
	www.comedycv.co.uk /danantopolski/index.htm (227 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Entertainment - Perrier judges opt for a new generation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		But the rags-to-riches story of this year's awards may be Laura Solon, a first-time Fringe comic and total unknown playing to tiny audiences in the back room of an Edinburgh pub.
		The Perrier judges chose an all-British shortlist of five for the main award, and another five for the newcomers' award, from 232 eligible shows.
		But the comedian Omid Djalili, a past Perrier nominee who was not eligible this year, said it was a shame Andrew Maxwell, who came to the Fringe as winner of the Kings of Comedy reality TV show, was not on the list.
	news.scotsman.com /entertainment.cfm?id=1837512005 (1741 words)

	Scotsman.com Entertainment - the complete entertainment, culture and arts guide to Scotland (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		LAURA Solon, making her debut at the Edinburgh Fringe, has been named the winner of Britain's top comedy honour, the Perrier Award.
		SOME of the biggest names on the Edinburgh Fringe have been overlooked for this year's Perrier comedy award as judges opted to shortlist a "new generation" of talent.
		THE Perrier awards are still a "force for good" in comedy, Nica Burns, the awards director, said yesterday.
	entertainment.scotsman.com /comedy (255 words)

	Boston.com / News
		EDINBURGH, Scotland -- Geek was chic for U.S. comedian Demetri Martin on Sunday as he won Britain's most prestigious comedy award at Edinburgh's Fringe festival with a nerd-centric routine that drew on charts, graphs and palindromes.
		Martin, provoking guffaws with a 222-word poem that read the same backward as forward, is only the second American to win the 7,500 pound Perrier Comedy Award.
		In the Perrier's 23-year history, only two women -- Thompson, who was part of the Cambridge Footlights troupe, and Alice Lowe, a member of the trio who won two years ago -- have landed in the winners' circle.
	www.boston.com /news/daily/25/odds_comic.htm (213 words)

	Comedy writer surprise Perrier winner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		A FORMER BBC comedy writer has won the prestigious Perrier Award with a show in which she plays eight different characters.
		Nica Burns, director of the award, said: "The final debate matched the intensity of that in 1991 in a year when the shortlist was remarkable in its range and diversity.
		The Perrier Award is in its 25th year and is considered one of the most coveted of all comedy awards.
	www.manchesteronline.co.uk /entertainment/comedy/s/171/171788_comedy_writer_surprise_perrier_winner.html (547 words)

	The Mighty Boosh - Stage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		The first of the shows, The Mighty Boosh, deservedly won Noel and Julian the Perrier Best Newcomer Award in 1998 at the Edinburgh Festival and also went on to be part of the programme for the Sydney comedy festival where they have since acquired a large Australian fan base.
		To the surprise of many, Auto Boosh was sadly overlooked when the Perrier nominations were announced, but they did triumph when they took the show to the Melbourne Comedy festival and won the Barry Humphries award.
		Receiving his first solo Perrier Comedy Award nomination, Noel was now on a par with Al Murray but the award went rather predictably to Daniel Kitson.
	www.themightyboosh.inuk.com /stage.html (662 words)

	BBC - Comedy - Edinburgh
		Chris Addison was the only one of the five Perrier nominees I correctly predicted and that was the safest bet of the lot.
		Perrier have been criticised for years for not having a female on the list and she's one of the best comics on the circuit, male or female, but for me her Fringe show was far from her finest.
		The Perrier recognition is not the first 2004 accolade for the show, written and performed by Ethan Sandler and Adrian Wenner, won a sketch comedy award at the Aspen Comedy Festival earlier this year.
	www.bbc.co.uk /comedy/edinburgh/news/2004/08/25/13901.shtml (441 words)

	Telegraph \| Arts \| 'Perrier winner? I shouldn't have been on the list'
		When Perrier Comedy Award winner Laura Solon was contacted by the award organisers last Wednesday, she was so surprised that she completely misunderstood their conversation.
		Solon was equally overcome when she accepted her award from Paul Merton in Edinburgh in the early hours of Sunday morning.
		She has become only the second woman to win the Perrier Comedy Award in its 25-year existence, after Jenny Eclair won in 1995.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2005/08/31/btedsolon31.xml&sSheet=/living/2005/08/31/ixlivingtop.html (704 words)

	Eau dear, the Perrier boycott's gone flat - [Sunday Herald]
		The threatened boycott of the Perrier Comedy Award at the EdinburghÊFringeÊseemsÊto be losing ground with only one venue hosting eligible comedy acts willing to support the boycott.
		WhileÊseveralÊvenueÊ managers expressed a personal dislike of the policies of big companies, they said it would be unfair for their political views to disadvantage comedians who may be in the running for the high-profile prize.
		Nominations for the prestigious award are not announced until Wednesday, but the capital has been awash with rumours over who will win the Perrier prize, which typically leads to TV deals and lucrative script-writing contracts.
	www.sundayherald.com /17399 (805 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Features - Let's drink to the Perrier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		For nearly all of the Perrier's 25 years (yes, it's 25 this year, and don't begin to think you've heard the last of it) there has been talk of tokenism and favouritism, everything from vested interests to de-vested interests.
		Pausing only to award the prize to Steve Coogan and John Thomson in 1992, the committees then had a couple of clown-crowning years, when Lee Evans (1993) and Lano and Woodley (1994, please don't say "who?") smiled and accepted.
		Maybe the Perrier is heading back in the direction of Stephen Fry and Theatre de Complicite as we approach its quarter century.
	news.scotsman.com /features.cfm?id=1668832005 (1091 words)

	CNN.com - Marenghi scoops Edinburgh's Perrier - August 26, 2001
		Gareth Marenghi fought off competition from four other contenders for the Perrier Comedy Award, which is traditionally one of the high points of the festival.
		More than 160 shows were eligible this year for the Perrier award, which is celebrating its 21st anniversary.
		This year it came under attack from former winners Rob Newman and Thompson, who called for a boycott of the award because of the involvement of Perrier's owners, Nestle, in marketing powdered baby milk in developing countries.
	archives.cnn.com /2001/SHOWBIZ/Arts/08/26/edinburgh.perrier (375 words)

	Funny girl - Arts - www.smh.com.au
		So Kendall's nomination this year for one of the world's top comedy awards, the Perrier, at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival and her decision to cancel a Sydney Opera House season next month, clearly shows she's accustomed to career-control mechanisms.
		Kendall never went to drama school or to stand-up comedy workshops and she says it was her friend, not her, who was the funny one at school in Newcastle - growing up with little desire to be a performer and even less idea of what she might eventually do.
		She didn't win, (the award went to Will Adamsdale), but Kendall's pride at being nominated at her fourth Edinburgh season was marred by an increasing irritation at the media's conjecture about the rarity of female nominations.
	www.smh.com.au /news/Arts/Funny-girl/2004/11/19/1100748195490.html?from=storyrhs (1322 words)

	Independent Online Edition > News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		In the 25 years since the first Perrier Prize for comedy at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe went to a young Cambridge Footlights team that included the fledgling talents Stephen Fry and Emma Thompson, it has proved itself to be a major selling point on any aspiring comedian's CV.
		More importantly, they get a headlining turn in the Perrier Comedy Award Shows in the West End and are extremely likely to secure a television deal.
		But the roll-call of talent first identified in a grimy back street in the Scottish capital one windswept August, but now earning small fortunes, is an impressive vote of confidence in judges who see hundreds of shows before they make their decision.
	enjoyment.independent.co.uk /theatre/news/article304095.ece (1200 words)

	BBC - Liverpool - Entertainment - Two Liverpool Comics Up For Prestigious Comedy Prize.
		The Perrier Comedy Award is now in its 25th year and is given at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe for the most outstanding up-and-coming stand-up comedy.
		Adam Franklin, a judge for this year's North West comedy awards said: "We are delighted that two of our best loved comedians have been recognised for the award.
		The award is judged by a panel of ten people including comedy and theatre critics, tv and radio comedy producers and three members of the public.
	www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/content/articles/2005/08/25/theatre_livcomediansperrier_feature.shtml (412 words)

	List of prizes, medals, and awards (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		"The Paul Dirac Medal and Prize" is awarded annually by the Institute of Physics for "outstanding contributions to theoretical (including mathematical and computational) physics".
		Ho-Am Prize - Korean awards for the development of science and culture and enhancement of the welfare of mankind
		NAACP Image Award (for African-American film, television, music and literature in the United States)
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/list_of_prizes__medals__and_awards (774 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| Perrier comedy award contenders
		He returns to the Fringe with a brand new act called Happy Feet, after being nominated for the Perrier award in 2001.
		Nichol describes his Perrier nomination as the best thing that could have happened to him at the end of a disastrous year.
		He has won numerous awards and has been called "a tower of comedy strength" by the Metro.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/entertainment/2209890.stm (667 words)

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