Festival Diaries #14: The Perrier Comedy Awards

Outside the venue we waited in line watching the protests (you see, Perrier is owned by Nestle - the hugely unethical corporation which, I agree, we should continue to boycott). Perrier sponsor the awards, and don’t directly make any money from them other than from advertising, but I’m glad the protestors were there to inform everyone of Nestle’s disgraceful policies.

But getting back to the comedy (after all it was why we were here); there were 4 acts nominated for the award. Epitaph were a sketch-comedy act that had limited appeal to a niche audience. Fortunately I was in that niche. Sarah Kendal, being an Aussie comedian, naturally talks funny. But the star of the evening was the superbly cool and witty Reginald D Hunter, with his own brand of observational humour that left us whooping for more. He should have won.



The actual winner was Jackson’s Way – an act that would have been better suited to theatre than comedy. Like Nestle’s policies, it just wasn’t funny.