When you sit in the audience waiting for a show and there are two giant rotating thistles being projected either side of the stage, you know you’re in for observational humour that’s country based. And that’s exactly what the majority of Danny Bhoy’s humour is. It isn’t exactly genre-busting, it’s not controversial, and it’s not going to win any awards for pushing the boundaries, but it will make you laugh and laugh and laugh??

Danny spends a lot of time during his set talking about the food, lifestyle and culture of his home country Scotland. He takes a tongue-in-cheek attitude to all this, which makes you believe he has no qualms with his country. He just enjoys poking fun at it. He employs the same tactic when talking about the differences between Scotland and Australia.

The only flaw to his set was the fact that some of this material has been aired before in the Montreal Comedy Festival Gala (broadcast on TV here). This is only the smallest of flaws though, as I still laughed throughout and it can be attributed to Danny’s on stage presence. He’s all smiles and charisma’and that’s the charm of Danny Bhoy: he could tell you the world’s worst joke and all he’d have to do is smile and the audience would be roaring with laughter. If other comedians have had me laughing harder, Danny had me laughing throughout his entire set, and that is very rare.