Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2001
The 2001 Edinburgh Festival Fringe was the 54th Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The Fringe ran from 5–27 August 2001 and presented 1462 shows over 176 venues. = Scotsman Fringe First Awards Week One: Gagarin Way Runt Like Thunder Bedbound Ferdydurke Week Two: Man in the Flying Lawn Chair Moving Objects Raw Jesus Hopped the A Train Neutrino Week Three: School for Fools Upside Down Cracked Mental Midden = Perrier Comedy Awards Winner: Garth Marenghi's Netherhead (Richard Ayoade, Matthew Holness and Alice Lowe) Nominees: Jason Byrne Adam Hills - Go You Big Red Fire Engine Daniel Kitson - Love, Innocence And The Word Cock Dan Antopolski - Antopolski 2000 = Best Newcomer Award = Winner: Garth Cruickshank and Eddie McCabe - Let's Have a Shambles Nominees: Andy Zaltzman versus the Dog of Doom Danny Bhoy Cambridge Footlights - Far too Happy (Edward Jaspers, Tim Key, Dan Macaskill, James Morris, Mark Watson and Sophie Winkleman)