Main content

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ New Comedy Award 2012: Birmingham heat

Take a gander at our film from the Birmingham heat of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ New Comedy Award 2012.

On Tuesday 11 September, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ New Comedy Award 2011 finalist Joe Lycett welcomed ten more competiting comedians to The Glee Club in Birmingham, to be judged by Chortle's Steve Bennett, Executive Producer Alison Vernon-Smith, Producer Lianne Coop and special guest judge Rob Rouse.

To find out what we got up to and who claimed sweet stand-up victory, have a look at our film of the day. You may notice that we took the opportunity of visiting the 'ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ of Metal' as an excuse to unleash a bit of Black Sabbath on your ears. If your ears are of a more delicate sensiblity, you may enjoy our other featured local band, Young Runaways.

At the end of the heats, two runners-up will be selected by the judges to go straight through one of our two semi-finals. Eight more runners-up will be chosen to compete online in a wildcard vote, where you'll be able to watch more footage of each performer and vote for who you think deserves a place in the semi-final. Voting will commence on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 2 website from October 8.

Acts: Kieran Boyd, Peter Dillon-Trenchard, Sunil Patel, Ryan Cull, Stuart Hossack, Andrea Hubert, Matt Richardson, Nick Dixon, James Loveridge, Funmbi Omotayo
Compere: Joe Lycett
Guest judge: Rob Rouse

Music:
Black Sabbath
Young Runaways (http://www.youngrunaways.co.uk/)

Release date:

Duration:

6 minutes