Ivo Graham has experienced a rocky but character-building couple of years. There have been Zoom gigs introducing new and unfieldable heckles, while his pandemic has been defined by an epic Wordle addiction and raising his young daughter, the comic having been locked down with the child’s mother, even though they’ve split up. If his offspring and further visits to Peppa Pig World are his future, then it’s perhaps natural that Graham is also feeling nostalgic for his youth, with his parents’ house a repository of his accumulated junk, sentimentality attached.

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Foremost is a collection of short stories he penned as a schoolboy, their intermittent silliness a relief from the relatively conventional, anecdotal stand-up he otherwise shares. While the stories’ determination to tack to a 1990s Premiership football theme, irrespective of the prescribed subject matter, is impressive. Also in the horde is the mask of a friend’s face from a stag do, a reminder of the faltering steps to maturity that Graham is taking at 31, juggling responsibility while belatedly experimenting with dating and drugs, though very much within the tight parameters of his privileged, Old Etonian background.

Meanwhile, his self-conscious efforts to boycott certain products on ethical grounds suggests limited personal growth but he closes on a warm, family bonding tale. Stringing together multiple disparate elements, My Future is a satisfying scramble through the clutter of his agitated mind.

Reviewed at Pleasance Courtyard as part of Edinburgh Fringe.