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Quantum Leopard
Quantum Leopard is a comedy night in London that is hosted and organised by James Ross. It was created in 2015 and has won multiple Chortle Awards. A pay-what-you-want show, it has a mixture of professional and semi-professional comedians and new acts. History Quantum Leopard was founded in 2015 by James Ross as a reaction to comedy gigs where performers picked on the audience. Quantum Leopard's first gig took place in February that year at the Rag Factory in east London. Quantum Leopard later changed venues to The Nursery Improv Theatre in London Bridge. In 2018, Quantum Leopard won the Chortle Award for Best Club Night in London. Olga Koch and Zoë Tomalin were jointly the inaugural 2018 Quantum Leopard Champion of Champions, selected from the winners of each show's new act competition. In 2019, Quantum Leopard moved venues to 2Northdown and won the Chortle Award for Best Club Night in London for the second year in a row. Quantum Leopard is one of the inspirations behind Blizzard ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chortle Awards
The Chortle Awards were set up in 2002 by the comedy website Chortle to honour the best of established stand-up comics currently working in the UK. A panel of reviewers draw up a shortlist, which is presented for public vote at the Chortle website. 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 In 2012, Charlie Brooker won the TV award for ''Black Mirror'' and his work on ''10 O'Clock Live'', while Stewart Lee was awarded "best standup DVD" for the second series of ''Stewart Lee's Comedy Vehicle''. Lee's former comic partner Richard Herring won the internet award. Dylan Moran won "best tour", Tim Key was awarded "best show", and Simon Munnery received the award for innovation. Prior to the awards, Chortle responded to accusations of sexism (of 54 nominees, only two were women). Editor Steve Bennett described the controversy as "a storm we never saw coming." 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 The winners were announced in March 2018, and marked ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |