"A year ago my girlfriend asked me to marry her, says Nicoresti on accepting the 10,000 prize last weekend. [When] we were talking about how to pay for the wedding, I joked and said, It's easy, I'll just win the Edinburgh comedy award'. Can it be true? Is Nicoresti not only the first transgender winner of the so-called Oscars of comedy, but the first ever to manifest victory by force of strategic will?"
"Of the moment when her name was announced and her place confirmed in the ex-Perrier award pantheon (former winners: Steve Coogan, The League of Gentlemen, Bridget Christie and many more), Nicoresti says only that it was very surreal. You get swept off the stage instantly into the press junket. They won't let you go back to your friends. It felt like the president had been assassinated and I was being ferried away to be sworn in."
Nicoresti won the prestigious Edinburgh comedy prize after a year of intentional career shifts aimed at broader success. A wedding joke about funding inspired a focused drive toward the award. The winning show Baby Doomer targeted a mass audience while addressing life as a trans woman without surrendering comedic edge. Nicoresti moved from leftfield work with the Weirdos collective and from a prior satirical multimedia hit titled Cancel Anti Wokeflake Snow Culture to more mainstream appeal. The victory left Nicoresti exhausted and surprised, describing the announcement as surreal and the immediate press attention as overwhelming.
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