With the sort of biliousness only expressed by those who've suffered a throwback ailment like gout, the redoubtable Garrett Millerick delivers a brawling show of superior, contrarian stand-up. Making the case for various forms of xenophobia, of giving even Scientology a chance and calling for the recognition of Jeff Bezos and his tech billionaire brethren as latter-day gods, Millerick is accomplished at seizing upon the tiny positives in a heinous thing and twisting it, hyper-exaggerating it into absurd positivity, more for the shits and giggles of devil’s advocacy than anything else.

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Fulminating loudly and aggressively from his charlatan’s pulpit, Just Trying To Help is a typically and technically impressive blowhard display from Millerick, with delightful conceits and satirical truths to savour, such as his hilarious characterisation of the US as the UK’s Manic Pixie Dream Girl. For all his sweat-drenched, shouting application, though, not to mention his persuasive advocacy for the street theatre of a good punch-up, the show in its entirety can’t help feeling a bit of a hollow intellectual exercise, an impressive but ultimately shallow flex of this stand-up gem’s poetic, thoughtful mind.

Monkey Barrel, until 28 August, 6.25pm.