Whatever happened to the Edinburgh comedy "Class of '96"?

Back in the 90s, the prestigious Edinburgh Comedy Award was known as the Perrier (after the fizzy water brand), and 1996 was perhaps THE vintage year. If you've followed British comedy over the last two decades, you're probably very familiar with most of these names - so let's look back at what became of Edinburgh's "Class of '96"...

Despite not winning the award in 1996, Bill Bailey's career has gone from strength to strength. He was one of the stars of Channel 4's double BAFTA-winning sitcom Black Books (created by 1996's eventual winner Dylan Moran), and in 2002 took over from yet another Perrier winner, Sean Hughes, as a team captain on BBC Two's long-running music comedy panel show Never Mind The Buzzcocks. He's also been voted seventh not once, but twice (in 2007 and again in 2010) in Channel 4's 100 Greatest Stand-Ups poll.

Al Murray is still perhaps best known as The Pub Landlord, the epitome of the Great that is placed before Britain. He went on to win the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 1999. However, his place at the forefront of alternative comedy was perhaps most cemented when he 'invented' his own crisps - "Steak & Al Pie" - for Comic Relief. He's back at Edinburgh this year, hosting shows from the BBCEdFest site for BBC Radio 2, as well as performing the Pub Landlord's latest work-in-progress show, Let's Go Backwards Together.

After finding success in America during the 80s and featuring on the legendary sketch show Saturday Night Live (alongside names like Billy Crystal and Julia Louis-Dreyfus), Rich brought his comic wit across the pond to share with us. Although not successful in 1996, Rich went on to win the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2000 as his alter ego Otis Lee Crenshaw. You may have seen him on numerous panel shows such as 8 Out of 10 Cats, QI or Never Mind the Buzzcocks since - or perhaps on Rich Hall's Fishing Show on BBC Four?

Having won the Best Newcomer Award in 1993, Dominic was nominated for the main prize in 1996. He then scored his own BBC Radio 4 series, The Small World of Dominic Holland, and among other things has since written a series of comic novels. His son Tom Holland has gone on to become a Hollywood actor - he played Spider-Man in Captain America: Civil War - leading to Dominic's autobiographical book how tom holland Eclipsed his dad.

This double act went on to have not one, but two eponymously named TV shows, the latter of which, The Armstrong & Miller Show on BBC One, won them a BAFTA for Best Comedy Series. They've also had big solo success: Armstrong as the host of BBC One daytime quiz show Pointless, and Miller as an actor - notably as Detective Richard Poole in BBC One's light-hearted crime drama Death in Paradise.

Last but not least, we have the 1996 Perrier Edinburgh Comedy Award winner himself, Dylan Moran, who still holds the record of the youngest winner at 24. He went on to co-write and also star (alongside fellow nominee Bill Bailey) in the BAFTA-winning sitcom Black Books, and has popped up in films including Notting Hill and Shaun of the Dead. Oh, and he has appeared near the top of lists of the greatest stand-ups ever since - even including one by French newspaper Le Monde!