Amy Gledhill won the Edinburgh Comedy Award For Best Show on Saturday. Here is her speech after she received the award from last year’s winner Ahir Shah and Richard Osman.
Gledhill has already had a nomination for Best Show as half of double act The Delightful Sausage in 2022. Her latest solo show Make Me Look Fit on the Poster is a true banger, exploring issues of body image through the medium of laugh-out-loud, brash humour.
She might appear supremely confident, but Gledhill still has insecurities, though this doesn’t stop her singing the praises of whipping her clothes off and walking around her home naked. On the surface, the show concerns a series of comic mishaps, but there’s a subtext about empowerment which gives it considerable heft at the end. Her tip on how to get extra portions of meat at your local Toby Carvery is worth the ticket price alone.
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