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Amy Stella Gledhill is an English comedian. She has been nominated for Best Show at the UK National Comedy Awards and for Best Show and Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, winning the former in 2024. She performs solo and as half the duo The Delightful Sausage with Chris Cantrill.

Early life

Gledhill is from Hull, and as part of her stand-up routine has said she is the youngest of seven children.

Career

Gledhill started her career in various sketch groups in the north of England. In 2018 it was announced on the BBC One programme The One Show that she was the second winner of the Caroline Aherne Bursary. She received a cash prize and mentoring from a BBC commissioning editor.

In 2019, as part of the double act The Delightful Sausage, Gledhill was nominated for Best Show at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival's Comedy Awards for their show Ginsters Paradise.

Between 2020 and 2021, Gledhill appeared as various characters in the CBBC and BBC iPlayer children's sketch show Big Fat Like. She also contributed to the show as a writer.

In 2021 and 2024, Gledhill appeared as Leslie in the BBC Two and BBC iPlayer comedy series Alma's Not Normal.

Gledhill made her solo show debut at the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe Festival with The Girl Before The Girl You Marry. She was nominated for Best Newcomer for that show at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards. That year she was also nominated for Best Show as part of The Delightful Sausage - she was the first person to be nominated for involvement in two shows in the same year since Dan Antopolski in 2000.

In 2023 Gledhill embarked on her first solo UK tour after a sold-out run at the Soho Theatre in London. In January she hosted the BBC Sounds podcast Obsessed with... Happy Valley alongside fellow comedian Isy Suttie, in which they "discuss fan theories and chat to familiar faces from the cast". In February Gledhill was nominated at the UK National Comedy Awards in the Best Stand-Up category for her show The Girl Before The Girl You Marry. She also appeared in the second series of the Channel 4 comedy Hullraisers.

Since 2023 Gledhill is co-host on the Northern News podcast with Ian Smith.

In February 2024, Gledhill appeared on the BBC panel comedy show Would I Lie to You?. That month, she was nominated in the Best Best Breakthrough Act category, and Northern News was nominated in the Best Podcast category at the Chortle Awards.

In summer 2024, Gledhill returned to the Fringe with her new show, Make Me Look Fit on the Poster. It was nominated for Best Show at the ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and won the Edinburgh Comedy Award for Best Show.

In October 2024, Gledhill and fellow comedian Harriet Kemsley launched a podcast called Single Ladies In Your Area, where they discuss, with guests, modern dating after the break-up of their respective long-term relationships.

Personal life

Gledhill lived in Leeds and Manchester before moving to London.

References

1. Healy, Rachael (18 November 2022). "The Delightful Sausage: 'Impostor syndrome has propelled us forward'". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 November 2023.
2. "Amy Gledhill: The Girl Before the Girl You Marry at Edinburgh festival review — a properly hilarious comedian to watch". The Times.
3. "Amy Gledhill wins Caroline Aherne bursary". Chortle.
4. "Edinburgh Comedy awards 2019: surrealists, standups and sausage act vie for prize". The Guardian.
5. "Big Fat Like on BBC iPlayer". BBC iPlayer.
6. "The hilarious BAFTA winning comedy 'Alma's not Normal' is available now. Northern comedian Amy Gledhill features in episodes 3 & 6 as Lesley". Anthearepresents.com.
7. "PREVIEW- Amy Gledhill- The Girl Before The Girl You Marry". Deadlinenews.co.uk.
8. "The Week on Stage at Edinburgh Fringe: Amy Gledhill, Colin Hoult, Vir Das, Age Is a Feeling". The Independent.
9. "Comedy Awards nominees, Rhys Nicholson, Sam Campbell - Mark Muldoon's Fringe Diary". Comedy.co.uk.
10. "Amy Gledhill: The Girl Before the Girl You Marry at Edinburgh festival review — a properly hilarious comedian to watch". Comedy.co.uk.
11. "13 podcasts we can't wait to listen to in 2023, from Love, Janessa to The Squid Scam". Stylist.co.uk.
12. "Everything You Need To Know About Happy Valley's Rhys Connah". Grazia Daily.
13. "Joe Lycett and Mo Gilligan to receive National Comedy Awards". Chortle.co.uk.
14. "Northern News". Plosive. Retrieved 23 January 2024.
15. "Final Chortle Award nominees revealed". Chortle. 9 February 2024. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
16. "ISH Edinburgh Comedy Awards announces 2024 shortlists". Chortle. 21 August 2024. Retrieved 21 August 2024.
17. "Hull comic wins Best Comedy Show at Edinburgh Fringe". BBC News. 24 August 2024. Retrieved 26 August 2024.
18. "The Delightful Sausage: 'Impostor syndrome has propelled us forward'". The Guardian.

External links

• Amy Gledhill at IMDb

• Living people
• English stand-up comedians
• English women comedians
• Comedians from Kingston upon Hull
• 20th-century births