Sam Nicoures is the first Trans Comedian to win the best show at Edinburgh Comedy Awards

British comedian Sam Nicoresi has won the award for the Best Comedy Show at Edinburgh Fringes – the first transgender man to win the award.

Nicoresi praised the show Baby Doomar, who investigates life as a trans woman.

Ayoade Bamgboye won the best newbout for her show swing and roundabout – she became the first black woman to take the award.

This is the first year when the fringe has abolished the annual award for a main basis of the festival for the best part of two decades.

Awarded but separate Edinburgh Comedy Awards Main Awards recognizes the best performance and routine in total each year.

It was launched in 1981 and takes credit for helping to establish the career of modern comedy Great.

This year it also gave its Victoria Wood Award – a panel prize for those who “give the true spirit of the fringe” – to the Comedy Club 4 Kids.

Nicoresi took a prize of £ 10,000 and prize in a shortlist described as “Stars of Kal”.

Mentor The show honored Baby Doomar Four Stars, called it “one hour time with the Akash-Higher joke count”.

Meanwhile, Bamboy’s show swings and roundabouts, which attract her step from Nigeria to UK, is described as one. “Thrilling debut”,

He told BBC News that the show was an ongoing comment as to what it means – a special pain “due to your birth and identity circumstances”.

The audience, he said, has come up with his show “wide eyes” and “open hearts”.

“The reception has been more and better as much as I could dream,” he said. “Nobody is asking you to prove that you are funny, they are a good time and to hear.

“It is always important to do this craft, throwing my hat in the ring and this way to be identified in this way is just something – not only for me but for those who look like me.”

Director of Edinburgh Comedy Awards NICA Burns stated that the winners capture the spirit of modern comedy – “bold, luxurious and depth connected to the audience”.

He said: “Sam Nicoresie’s baby dumor is an excellent woven, polish and joy with a human show that catches an essential moment, to paraphrase his words, laughs with seconds.

“The first hour of Iode Bamgoy is electric, which constantly puts you on your toes.

“The co-opin begins as a everyday anecdote, a rich, often manifested in the real world, layered with intensive emotional depth. He all distributes all this with remarkable charisma and appearance. Ayod has a great future ahead of him.”

The Edinburgh Comedy Awards are in its 45th year.

Preview winners include Stephen Fry, Steve Kugon, Lee Evans, Al Murray, Sara Milikan, Omid Jaliley, Edd Izard, Tim Minchin, The League of Gentleman, Jenny Ekleir and Frank Skinner.