2007 if.comedy best newcomer

Tom Basden, one quarter of the acclaimed sketch show Cowards (Radio 4, BBC3) presents his debut full-length solo show at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

This wonderfully eclectic show is an hour of deadpan musical whimsy, interspersed with words, pictures and even some tiny films.

With songs covering such wildly varying subjects as ghosts, Chris Tarrant, glass eyes, suicide, ventriloquism, hypochondria, Iraq and love and 60 second documentaries about swimming the channel and ducks, an art exhibition, and Coffee and tea making facilities included, this show promises to be utterly original.