‘I’ve learnt something about myself during the past year,’ Amy Gledhill tells her audience. ‘Don’t worry, it’s not ADHD.’ It’s an admirable sentiment at a time when younger comedians are placing their deeply personal diagnoses front and centre, sometimes at the expense of punchlines. Gledhill, best known as one half of absurdist duo The Delightful Sausage, is a gags-to-the-fore stand-up, reeling out anecdotes on her own perceived inadequacies with the build and pace of someone who makes their hour-long show feel like a tight ten.  

And yet Make Me Look Fit On The Poster is itself masterfully embedding a serious topic within its incredible gag rate, discussing Gledhill’s body consciousness and her menagerie of toxic exes, as well as a profoundly negative experience with a drunk man on a train. She’s cranking a few levers of drama, then, and adding a sense of vulnerability to her routines, but it’s the punchlines that still reign supreme here and add grain to her effervescent and incredibly likeable personality.  

With a tight command of her material that combines witty storytelling and satisfying moments of physical comedy, she vacillates from being like a pal you want to grab a pint with to a world-weary traveller of singledom who (perhaps surprisingly given her experiences on the dating scene) has remained undimmed in her optimism. It would be difficult to take against Gledhill’s committed sense of fun, and this crackling hour proves why she’s worked her way to become one of the most in-demand comics on the circuit. 

Amy Gledhill: Make Me Look Fit On The Poster, Monkey Barrel, until 25 August, 6.10pm; main picture: Matt Crockett.