The Fosters Edinburgh Comedy Awards, in all their previous guises, are the longest running comedy award having outlived at least 15 other awards including The Daily Telegraph Open Mic Award, The Time Out Comedy Awards and The BBC New Comedy Award Among our very talented judges, who became better known in the world of comedy after their stint on the panel, were competition winners Hannah Chambers, who now manages acts including Jimmy Carr and Frankie Boyle, Shane Allen who is now Head of Comedy at Channel 4 and Hils Jago who founded Amused Moose At least 2 of our winners and nominees have proved that music and comedy can hobnob at the very highest levels with Rich Hall once supporting Talking Heads and Arnold Brown supporting Frank Sinatra at Ibrox