It's been a wet old summer, but the if.comedy awards panel has brought in a superb harvest of nominees from the Edinburgh Festival, and so we present the organic, fresh, environmentally-friendly cream of the crop for the Intelligent Finance Comedy Awards Season 2007.

Tom Basden - Won’t Say Anything
Winner - If.comedy Best Newcomer Award

One quarter of acclaimed sketch show Cowards (Radio 4, BBC 3), Tom’s wonderfully eclectic show is an hour of deadpan musical whimsy, interspersed with words, pictures and even some tiny films. His songs cover such wildly varying subjects as ghosts, Chris Tarrant, glass eyes, suicide, ventriloquism, hypochondria, Iraq and love. He also offers 60 second documentaries about swimming the channel and ducks, an art exhibition, and coffee and tea making facilities.

“Reminiscent of Gary Larson's The Far Side” - The Independent

“Exquisitely crafted comedy” - Chortle

Ivan Brackenbury’s Hospital Radio RoadShow
If.comedy Award Nominee

Hospital Radio’s flagship presenter’s ‘Disease-Hour’ captures the fun and excitement you’d expect from being ill in hospital with Games, Giveaways, Patient’s requests and Ivan’s special blend of music and chat. Previously heard on Radio 1 in Stewart Lee and Richard Herring’s show Fist of Fun, this was Ivan’s (aka Tom Binns) first full length show and a master class in insensitivity.

“The most deliciously enjoyable I’ve spent on the Fringe” - The Guardian

“As far as laughs per minute, you can do no better than Tom Binns” - The Independent