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Published:
August 13, 2008
Local student is crowned Britain's funniest student of 2008
 A
student from near Burnham-On-Sea has this week been crowned Britain’s
funniest student of 2008.
Jack
Heal, 21, a former pupil of King Alfred School in Highbridge,
took the 'Chortle Student Comedy Award' at this week's Edinburgh
Fringe Festival.
He
said: "It was a real surprise to win - it hasn't properly
sunk in yet."
Heal,
who is from Pawlett, impressed the panel of comedy industry judges
with his monologue about a romance, filled with wordplay and dry
one-liners. He takes home a £1,000 first prize.
Steve
Bennett, who chaired the judging panel, said: "He’s
a maths graduate, and his gags were constructed as intricately
and rigorously as any complex equation, but a hell of a lot funnier.
Every one was a winner, drawing huge, well-deserved laugh."
Simon Bird, who has already starred in the E4 comedy The Inbetweeners,
came a close second.
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