‘Writing for SNL UK is intense – I’ve scraped the barrel and booked a holiday’

Chris Cantrill has earned a break (Picture: Jane Barlow/PA Wire)

Chris Cantrill just won the ‘Oscars of live comedy’ for his Edinburgh Fringe show Rewildling, and he’s spending the £10,000 prize money on a new chimney. (He’d already booked the holiday, don’t worry.) 

‘More of it than you would think is going to go to [the chimney],’ the SNL UK writer, 42, tells Metro shortly after winning the award.

Given his busy schedule, what with long days in the writers’ room and his Fringe run, Chris h...