User:Peaky76/Edinburgh Festival Fringe 1987

''In 1987, a stand-up won the Perrier Award for the first time, although Arnold Brown is unlikely to be the winner sponsors Perrier had in mind. As one of their 1980s adverts for the prize makes clear: "A sparkling opportunity for young people to turn their talents into a bubbling success." Brown's style of humour is rather drier than a bottled water company would want, and as an accountant who had first tried stand-up at 40 a few years earlier, he wasn't the age they had in mind.''