Student comedy awards 2005.  Bristol heat
Torquay-based student teacher Kai Barron triumphed in the West Country heat of the Chortle Student Comedy Award last night.
Barron, who has been performing comedy for about two year and runs the Gagging  For It club in his home town, now goes forward to the final in London on April 25.

Kai Barron (Devon Secondary Teacher Training Group): A powerful bundle of energy, Barron strong and stupid opening, as he pounds and postures across the stage with an empty cornflakes box as his prop, sets the tone for this reckless celebration of punnery and daftness. Not all of it works – a weak, forced joke about working in a currency exchange, for example, could never meet the build-up it gets – but when it does, it’s plain, unpretentious fun.