Comic and poet Tim Key won Britain's top comedy award Saturday on the final day of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the world's largest annual event of its kind dedicated to the arts. Key, 32, from Cambridge, first appeared on the Fringe in 2001, and edged out five other nominees for the 2009 award which carries a cash prize of 8,000 pounds and invitations to appear in the Montreal, Toronto and Chicago Just For Laughs comedy festivals. Keys told Reuters he had started writing poetry three years ago. “Then I did a gig with them in it and it went okay, so I've just done poems since then. “Some of them are wilfully funny and some of them are wilfully weird, and some of them are completely unusable and are just stowed away.” After a Fringe show in 2007, he published a book of his poetry, “25 Poems, 3 Recipes and 32 Other Suggestions”.
