John Scott

Nor does the material strive for anything original. He’s still not only doing jokes about the 2007 terrorist attacks on Glasgow Airport – but the very same joke people where cracking at the very moment the news broke: Glaswegians will punch someone even if they are on fire.

Other keen observations from his 41 years on earth include the fact that poor people wear tracksuits even though they don’t do any exercise, Glaswegians use the c-word like punctuation – and sometimes he finds himself wandering into the kitchen and wondering what he came in for. I got a similar feeling after walking into his show.

He admits his section on the differences between the genders is ‘the thing comedians have been talking about forever’, then offers up absolutely nothing on the topic. Imagining that men would have a different approach to pregnancy is as far as it gets and it’s lazy, lazy stuff.

Occasionally he transcends this with some anecdote unique to him. The holiday to Egypt offers up a funny moment when he’s told how to get through a checkpoint, he’s got a couple of scary heckler stories, and the recreation of one of his potentially offensive sketch character has a lot of fun to it that’s absent from the rest of the hour.

This is a very pedestrian set from a comic who just doesn’t seem to be trying.