LATEST NEWS | May Round-Up

It's been a funny old May over here at Funny Women. The 2008 NIVEA Funny Women Awards are chugging along nicely, with talented and funny women taking the stage all over the country in the hopes of a place in the June Semi-Finals. There's still several showcases to go before we can announce the Semi-Finalists and the judges are busier than ever.

We've had so many entrants this year that there has had to be a new showcase added to the NIVEA Funny Women Awards for June. We've added this new showcase at Studio Valbonne to make sure that all the acts that have applied for a place in this year's competition have their time on stage. It will serve as the penultimate showcase, bringing our total this year to 16 showcases across the UK and Ireland.

We've also made the decision to expand the number of acts making it through to the Semi-Finals this year. Final numbers are still to be determined, but the quality of comics appearing so far has meant that we've decided to increase the number of possible Semi-Final places from 20 to 25 – only time (and the remaining showcases) will tell if we actually have 25 acts to put through.

Preparations are also underway for the NIVEA Funny Women at the Fringe Award that will take place this August in Edinburgh. Watch this space for more details.