Laura Solon is the second solo woman ever to win the award.
Well, it's taken ten years but a second woman has finally won the Perrier award.
The virtually unknown Laura Solon has scooped the prize on her very first visit to the Edinburgh Fringe for her show Kopfrapers Syndrome.
The surprise decision means the 26-year-old has ended Jenny Eclair's decade-long reign as the only female Perrier winner.
It is also the second time in two years that a newcomer to the Edinburgh Fringe has scooped the £7,500 award, following the success of Will Adamsdale in Jackson's Way last year.
Solon has previously appeared on BBC TWO's Sack Race, where she posed as a fundamentalist Christian who found God in a pizza, trying to get fired from a Wimbledon nail bar.
The other nominees were Chris Addison, sketch group Dutch Elm Conservatoire, newcomer Jason Manford and spoof children's entertainer Jeremy Lion.
Also last night, the award for Perrier best newcomer was presented to Australian comic Tim Minchin for a show described as a 'smorgasbord of stunning musicality, hilarious stand up and average air guitar'.
Nica Burns, director of the Perrier Award said: 'How fitting, in the 25th year, that out of the blue a young woman of extraordinary talent should be discovered in an out-of-the-way venue and become the surprise winner and only the second solo woman to win the Perrier.
'Laura Solon is an extraordinary writer and performer who will become a major star. Let us hope that in the next 25 years, a woman winner of a comedy award will not be an unusual event.'
