When Amy Gledhill and Chris Cantrill received the life-changing news that they’d been nominated for the 2019 Edinburgh comedy awards – the Oscars of live comedy – they were hiding in a nearby field.
The comedy duo, also known as the Delightful Sausage, had been performing Ginster’s Paradise, a show set in a sinister Butlin’s-style holiday camp where their characters are working as “salmon coats” entertainers. It was their third time at the festival together and things were going better than ever, but they didn’t want to get ahead of themselves.
