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Has the Perrier lost its sparkle? - August 1998 The Stage - By Phil Gibby - August 6th, 1998
“None of the comics give a toss about the Perrier anyway,” Boothby Graffoe, one of the favourites for this year’s prize, claimed last week. Stewart Lee, one of Graffoe’s Avalon stablemates, said earlier in the year that he would be happy to organise a boycott of the award, which has hastened the fame of a…
Shun Perrier, comic urges - February 1998 The Stage - By Ben Dowell - February 5th, 1998
Television comic and Edinburgh veteran Stewart Lee has told The Stage that he is prepared to organise a boycott of Perrier Awards became they are “against the spirit of the Edinburgh Festival”. Lee said that the awards at Edinburgh can never succeed in picking the best act in Edinburgh because of the variety of the…