The Chorts! 2023 Awards
Sunday 3rd December saw The Comedy Crowd return to The Phoenix Arts Club in Soho for a festive celebration of comedy creating excellence at the Chorts 2023 awards ✨.
Shortlisted from over 500 sketches sent in from across the globe, the 18 best Chorts! were introduced by their creators and screened to a rapt crowd of comedy creators & enthusiasts.
But that wasn’t all! There were also live performances from Chorts finalists past and present including Hudson Hughes, Holly and Brooke, and Paul Holliday. The event was expertly compered by the wonderful MC Martin Dixon, and the Industry Judges Award and Audience Award were presented to the 2023 winners.
These were awarded as follows 🥁
INDUSTRY JUDGES AWARD WINNER
The trials and tribulations of someone living with a ghost.
🏆 The Chorts! 2023 Industry Judges Award Winner is Nikola McMurtrie with her sketch A Day In The Life Of Someone Who’s Being Haunted 🏆
“Well made & superbly delivered – putting the ‘dead’ in to ‘deadpan’. Strong premise with lots of well executed flourishes and surprises beyond the core idea. Very inventively done.“
Shane Allen, Chorts! 2023 Industry Judge
Runners Up in the 2023 Industry Judges Award were Christian Jegard with Doctor Sex, and Serena Terry with Explaining Menopause to 6 Year Olds.
AUDIENCE AWARD WINNER
This teacher has her hands full, especially when the kids continue to they’ll their mum’s deepest darkest secrets.
🏆 The Chorts! 2023 Audience Award Winner is Serena Terry with her sketch Explaining Menopause To 6 Year Olds 🏆
This is the part where you, the audience, get to cast your comedic eye over the Chortlist and have your say! Each year, a Chorts! Audience winner is crowned based on the total number of likes and laughs on each Chort! Serena’s sketch scooped the Audience Award after racking up a record breaking 850+ likes across YouTube and Facebook 👍
Congratulations to the Chorts! 2023 winners and to the creators who made the Chortlist! This year saw record numbers of entries from across the globe, and we are hugely impressed by the variety of talent on show.
You can enjoy all eighteen Chortlisted sketches on our official playlist:
🎞️ Chorts! 2023 playlist 🎞️
A huge thank you to everyone who submitted sketches to this year’s competition. Once again we had a blast watching them all, and as always there were some great entries that didn’t make the Chortlist which reflects just how truly creatively excellent you all are.
Thanks also to our 2023 Industry Judging Panel, who were Shane Allen, Hannah Rose, Mark Boosey, Lynne Parker, and Chris Chalmers, and to Theo Critchley, Ed Kirby, and Vanessa Esposito, all of whom helped to make this year’s competition a Chorting success!
And that’s a wrap on Chorts! 2023. Chorts! will return in 2024 for more sketch comedy mayhem.
