UNLIKE many of the caustic comedians touring the circuit, Miles Jupp is a gentlemanly chap who raises concerns rather than rants, is acutely disgruntled more than angrily disaffected.

From his daring dalliances with challenging basketballwielding youths in his local park to the dangers of catching yourself in the eye with the metal end of a phone charger, this is a two-hour amble through life’s annoyances.

Being the father of four children (born in as many years) means Jupp has plenty of material, including the frustrations of cleaning dried Weetabix from surfaces and the growing indifference to bodily fluids, as well as going to the doctor’s surgery merely to get some “me time”. He says he works so as to be able to fund the “milk-saturated lifestyle of the infant captors”, likening parents to hostages suffering from Stockholm Syndrome.

He’s so old-fashioned he prefers to jot his thoughts down on paper rather than Twitter, including the brilliant “If I were the health and safety officer at a Flintstones theme park, I would give a list of yabba-dabba-dos and yabba-dabba-don’ts”.

You’ll most likely recognise him from TV and radio panel shows or as hilariouslyincompetent political press officer John Duggan in The Thick Of It. But his stand up character is the best of the lot.

  • Miles Jupp is at the Stand Comedy Club, Newcastle, on April 1.