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Avalon Edinburgh Preview - Steve Bugeja and Steve Hall
Avalon are the UK's leading comedy agent - they bring two top comedians previewing their material ahead of the Edinburgh Festival this summer.
Steve Bugeja was crowned the 2013 BBC Radio New Comedy Award winner. He was a finalist in the Amused Moose and Laughing Horse new act competitions, making him one of the stand out new acts of the past few years. Steve has supported Russell Kane on tour and has written for Mock The Week, 8 out of 10 Cats and Russell Howard’s Good News.
Steve won the BBC’s Funny on Three sitcom competition along with his writing partner, developing a pilot script with BBC Comedy North. He also won the BBC’s Jesting About 2 sketch competition and has also contributed material to Radio 4’s The Show What You Wrote and BBC Radio 4 Extra’s topical sketch show Newsjack.
‘His social nightmares make for assured comedy, and it’s easy to see why the audience listening at home voted him the BBC New Comedy Award winner of 2013. Greater things surely await’ Chortle
As a solo live performer Steve Hall has provided the support for Russell Howard on his sell out national tours Adventures, Dingledodies and the 2009 arena tour Big Rooms And Belly Laughs.
His recent work has included writing on Russell Howard's Good News and a second series of writing for BBC Radio 4’s The Now Show.
Steve makes up one third of if.comedy Award nominated sketch show We Are Klang. They have performed at the Melbourne Comedy Festival, where they were nominated for a Barry Award. The group appeared on the Paramount Comedy Channel’s Edinburgh & Beyond two years running and won the Chortle Best Sketch Show award. They also had their own sitcom series on BBC Three.
'This is stand up as it should be: snappy and smart, occasionally nasty, and always funny' The List
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