musical comedy

Tim Minchin came to the Edinburgh Fringe in 2005 for the first time with his debut show Dark Side, which was nominated for and then won the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. Winning this for your debut show is the kind of wildest fantasy for aspiring comedians that is so vanishingly rare, such a golden ticket to the upper stratosphere of the comedy ecosystem, that it’s not really worth bothering to dream about.