Could you be a comedy pin-up?

Loaded seeks a new stand-up star

The celebrity-driven Loaded Lafta comedy awards are adding a new category this year to find the best new talent.

Organisers are staging what they call an ‘X Factor-style’ competition to find the winner of their ‘rising star’ award, who will receive £500, a laptop and be immortalised as a character in The Sims videogame.

The competition is sponsored by Yazoo milkshake, with heats being staged at Jongleurs venues across the country. The winner will also perform at the Loaded Laftas next January.

Loaded editor Martin Daubney says: ‘It’s one thing to amuse your mates on a Friday night down the boozer but another to stand-up on stage and do it to an audience - we lay down the challenge.’

To enter, would-be comedians should submit a clip of less than a minute to loaded.co.uk/laftas.

Published: 2 Jul 2010

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