Edward Aczel

Edward Aczel began performing stand-up comedy in 2005 at the age of 38. By the end of that year he was the runner-up in both the prestigious BBC New Comedy Awards and in Jimmy Carr's Comedy Idol (which was filmed for the extras on Jimmy Carr's 2005 live DVD). He is now a regular headliner on the comedy circuit and by 2014 had performed six solo shows at the Edinburgh Festival. 'One of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I'd ever seen' (Zadie Smith, The New Yorker) 'Perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian' (The Guardian) 'Genius anti-comic Aczel is a superb pleasure to watch, and very much a cult in the making' (Time Out).