Bridget Christie wins Foster's Edinburgh comedy award 24 August 2013 Last updated at 15:28 Bridget Christie has fought off six other shortlisted comedians to win the 2013 Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards. The feminist comedian is the first woman to win the £10,000 prize, since Laua Solon in 2005. Her show 'A Bic for Her' has been described as an hour of feminist comedy which is "as full of imaginative jokes as it is of righteous anger." John Kearns won best newcomer and Adrienne Truscott won the panel prize at the ceremony hosted by Steve Coogan. Coogan, currently starring in the movie Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa, won the comedy prize in 1992, when it was called the Perrier award. The six other comedians, performing at this year's Edinburgh Fringe, who were shortlisted were: Carl Donnelly, James Acaster, Max and Ivan, Mike Wozniak, Nick Helm and Seann Walsh. As well as John Kearns, the other nominees for the £5,000 best newcomer prize were Aisling Bea, Liam Williams, Matt Okine and Romesh Ranganathan. Previous winners of the comedy awards, which have been running since 1981, include Russell Kane, Tim Key, Al Murray, the League of Gentlemen, Jenny Eclair, Lee Evans and Frank Skinner. Bookmakers Ladbrokes had installed Bridget Christie as the favourite to win the award.