Scott Capurro
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San Franciscan comic and author of 'Fowl Play'. Scott has become one of the most popular faces in the UK comedy circuit. At the 1994 Edinburgh Festival he won both the
Perrier Best Newcomer Award for his show
Risk-Gay and the
Spirit of the Fringe Award.
Scott Capurro's Love and Affection Tour, his 1995 Edinburgh show was then nominated for the
Perrier Award. 1995 also saw Scott make his debut in Australia, appearing at both the Sydney Mardi Gras and the Melbourne Comedy Festival. In 1997 he completed a nationwide tour, including a run at London's Freedom Cafe and performed at the prestigious Just for Laughs Festival in Montreal. In 1998 Scott brought his one man black comedy
Brain Souffl? to the Fringe. He made a welcome return to the Edinburgh Festival in 1999 with his sell out show
Fowl Play, and his first novel of the same name was published in September 2000.
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Laughtershock
Banned in Australia? Booed in Brighton? Asked to tone it down at the Frog and Bucket in Manchester? What is the world of ‘alternative’ comedy coming to? Leave it to shocking comic Scott Capurro to ask the tough questions everyone wonders about but never brings up, not even at drunken dinner parties and, as far as the Labour government is concerned, certainly not on stage.
