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.
