A year or so after seeing this as a WIP in Edinburgh, it’s fun to pick up a last minute ticket for the finished thing at the Hippodrome, a room maybe five times the size as the Edinburgh venue in which we saw him back then. What’s most impressive is how much has survived that WIP, down to the details, individual jokes, and the entire structure of the show! God he’s good. This is how it’s done. The crowdwork is impeccable, and the source of lesser comedians annoyingly thinking they can do it so effortlessly and failing. The storytelling is stronger in this tour than his earlier work, following on narratively from his previous show about finding his birth mother. It’s so exciting to see him, even at this stage in his career, evolve. We wait behind afterwards to chance our arm in trying to get him to consider doing OPPO at some point in the future. He very kindly, supportively, and decisively tells us that’s not going to happen, but does seem to light up a little when he realises we’re comedians and enjoys the quick chat.