Edinburgh Fringe 2024: Edinburgh Comedy Awards winners

Amy Gledhill wins main award

by Veronica LeeSaturday, 24 August 2024

Amy Gledhill has previously been nominated in the Edinburgh Comedy AwardsMatt Crockett

Amy Gledhill won the Don and Eleanor Taffner Best Comedy Show, the main award at the 2024 Edinburgh Comedy Awards for Make Me Look Fit on the Poster. The show has variously been described as “bawdy comedy delivered with a blush”, “a funny woman rightly confident of her comedy talents” and “a brilliant physical comedian”.

Accepting her award, Gledhill said: “This is insane. I saw the other people on this list and I thought, 'I don't have to write a script!'”

Gledhill originally came to Edinburgh fame as one half of the sketch duo The Delightful Sausage, with Chris Cantrill, who was also nominated for his solo show Easily Swayed. The duo had previously been nominated for best show in 2019 and 2022, while Gledhill was also nominated for best newcomer in 2022 for her first solo show.

The DLT Entertainment Best Newcomer Award went to Joe Kent-Walters for Joe Kent-Walters Is Frankie Monroe: LIVE!!!!, which garnered a string of four- and five-star reviews. It's a brilliantly observed and affectionate spoof of an old-school host in a Rotherham working men's club.

The Victoria Wood award, given by the panel for a work or performer who best represents the spirit of the Fringe, was given to Rob Copland for Gimme (One With Everything). Nana Hughes, chair of the judging panel, said: Rob Copland seized this spirit with both hands, in a performance which barely pauses for breath and yet ends with 10 minutes of silence. In only his second full year at the festival he has established himself as a cult favourite."

Bawdy comedy delivered with a blush

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