Adam Hess – Salmon

Croydon lad Adam Hess deservedly bagged a Best Newcomer nomination at this year's Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards for this excitable hour of storytelling. You might know the 26-year-old comic for his snappy, offbeat life observations on Twitter (he has 45,000 followers), but he's even funnier as a stand-up, mixing relentlessly entertaining childlike observations with frivolous jokes.

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