Few comedians are as fluid as Dara O’Briain, freely dipping in and out of the audience to incorporate their responses into his fast-flowing monologue. It’s a spontaneous level of interaction rarely found outside a Ross Noble gig, creating the feeling that every show is special.

This DVD therefore feels as if it has captured such a typically random night, rather than the same well-practised set that he’s run through every other night night on the tour. That feeling is only heightened when you browse the extras menu to find a whole other full-length show, but recorded in Dublin, with very little overlap with the main feature.

But it’s no all quick-witted banter, there’s some sharp material here, too. Outside of a phenomenal Yakult joke, the best come an impassioned rant against all manner of hocus-pocus masquerading as pseudo-science, such as homeopathy and alternative medicines. As a maths and theoretical physics graduate, he takes great, and well-deserved, glee at skewering these charlatans.

Elsewhere, drunken audiences, previous gigs, hotel rooms and watching DVDs form a good chunk of the running time, reflecting the concerns of many a comic on the road. But they’re always his stories – often going off on wild tangents – so there’s little feeling this generic stuff.

Release date: November 17, 2008

RRP: £19.99