30 August 2010Last updated at 12:45

In pictures: Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards

The 1999 winner of the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, Al Murray, prepares to tell an expectant crowd this year's winner. All photos by Ivon Bartholomew.

Last year's winner of the Best Comedy Show at the Edinburgh Fringe, Tim Key, was also announcing this year's winners.

Roisin Conaty won this year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Newcomer.

Bo Burnham won the panel prize for showing the spirit of the Fringe. The 20-year-old internet star left the virtual world to take on the boiling venues and crowded streets of Edinburgh for a month.

Russell Kane was the winner of the Best Comedy show prize

Kane phoned his mother to give her the news of his win.

Tim Vine, winner of the Dave Joke of the Fringe, was one of many comedians who attended the Foster's Comedy Awards ceremony.

Comedian Ed Byrne, who was nominated for the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 1998 when it was the Perrier, was also at the ceremony at The Famous Spiegeltent in George Square Gardens.

Gyles Brandreth, who has been performing his One to One show in Edinburgh, was also at the awards ceremony.

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In pictures: Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards

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