Miles Jupp is wound up, angry and wants to tell us what's irking him.Armed with a posh accent and upper class persona, Miles takes his sellout crowd through the recent events in is life, from gigs at village halls, to the trials of fatherhood. Starting the show with the obligatory 'appeal to the locals' jokes about Edinburgh roadworks, Jupp moves on to a good range of subjects to rant about: Woolworth's, public transport & politicians, playing up to his posh image by joking about the recession "It must be terrible for the people involved".Unfortunately he only scratches the surface of his chosen comedy topics, often jumping from one to the other without any attempt at a link. His observational material is good though, especially when talking about Nando's cutlery, and hotel towel policies.The show stutters early on, when a herd of latecomers interrupt his routine. Usually comedians turn this situation to their advantage, but Jupp chooses to stall the show until the new crowd settles. This puts a dent in the momentum, and took a very long time to get going again. Indeed it wasn't until the final 20 minutes that Jupp truly started to get animated, when I suspect he's now on more familiar 'tried and tested' material about a trip to Amsterdam by night bus.For a routine based around middle class observations, it's surprising that the biggest laughs of the evening came from fart jokes and his use of the F word.This isn't Miles Jupp at his best, and I suspect he knows it.
