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Edward Aczel, also billed as Ed Aczel [1] [2] is a British stand-up comedian and actor. He known for his "anti-comedy" style of clumsy delivery presenting as uninterested and lacking belief in both his material and performing skills.
His 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival show, "Do I Really Have to Communicate with You?", was described by Zadie Smith in The New Yorker as "one of the strangest, and finest, hours of live comedy I’d ever seen". [3] James Kettle in The Guardian called him "perhaps Britain's greatest living anti-comedian". [4]
Winner of the 2008 Malcolm Hardee Award for Comic Originality, [5] he was the runner-up in both the 2005 BBC New Comedy Awards [6] and Jimmy Carr's Comedy Idol in 2004, which was filmed for the extras on Jimmy's 2005 Live DVD). [7]
His 2010 Edinburgh show featured in the BBC Comedy Collection. [8]
As an actor, he has appeared in two episodes of the soap opera EastEnders [9] , 2018 film The Favourite , series 2 of Mandy , Lee and Dean and Doctors .
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