Ed Aczel
Edward Aczel, also billed as Ed Aczel[1][2] is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He known for his "anti-comedy" style of clumsy delivery presenting as uninterested and lacking belief in both his material and performing skills.
His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, "Do I Really Have to Communicate with You?", was described by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen".[3] James Kettle in The Guardian called him "perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian".[4]
Winner of the 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality,[5] he was the runner-up in both the 2005 BBC New Comedy Awards[6] and Jimmy Carr's Comedy Idol in 2004, which was filmed for the extras on Jimmy's 2005 Live DVD).[7]
His 2010 Edinburgh show featured in the BBC Comedy Collection.[8]
As an actor, he has appeared in two episodes of the soap opera EastEnders,[9] 2018 film The Favourite, series 2 of Mandy, Lee and Dean and Doctors.
References
[edit]- ^ https://www.comedy.co.uk/fringe/2016/ed_aczel/
- ^ https://www.ebdonmgt.com/actor/ed-aczel/comedy
- ^ "Dead Man Laughing". The New Yorker. 22 December 2008.
- ^ Kettle, James (23 January 2010). "This week's comedy previews". The Guardian. London.
- ^ Young, Kevin (23 August 2008). "Stand-up Aczel wins comedy award". BBC.
- ^ "Actor scoops BBC New Comedy Award". BBC. 13 December 2005.
- ^ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLr9rZyw1mg&pp=ygUUZWQgYWN6ZWwgY29tZWR5IGlkb2zSBwkJsgkBhyohjO8%3D
- ^ "Edinburgh 2010 - Show Four". BBC.
- ^ https://www.imdb.com/name/nm5506784/
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