Given our current turbulent times, two familiar threads in Sara Pascoe’s show seem like natural preoccupations for a comic of her generation: warm nostalgia for the 1990s and an enduring wonder at the trappings of fame. This seems particularly pertinent for someone who has recently established themselves on mainstream television and settled down to start a family.

Always so astute regarding human psychology, especially her own, Pascoe however offers a drolly cynical, analytical yet silly take on these interlinked phenomena. Plus, there’s a bifocal perspective throughout Success Story, both that of her teenage self believing that stardom would solve all her problems, and her fortysomething lived reality of showbusiness as a gilded cage. From her earliest brush with stardom as a wide-eyed, 14-year-old wannabe on a talent show (immediately tarnished by its association with the now disgraced Michael Barrymore) through to her archly mocking view of the therapy she’s undergoing, Pascoe dryly observes the distance between youthful dreams and experience.

Qualifying her fame from the start with instinctive self-deprecation, she retains a plebeian observer’s distance, be it stood adjacent to a supermodel in the most unflattering of circumstances, simply enjoying witnessing a renowned author on the dancefloor, or suffering the chat-up line of a bigger-name entertainer. Attending Hugh Grant’s birthday party twice, both as a performer and guest, the line is slightly blurred as to whether Pascoe is the butt of the joke, and it’s far from certain if she knows herself.

Subsequently, having conveyed some of the twisted logic and toxic impetus that sustains fame, her explanation for Prince Harry’s memoir is a wildly entertaining theory which contains just the faintest tinge of credibility. Motherhood wasn’t straightforward for her in various respects. And typically, it prompts her to a more complex philosophy which, as with this vegan catering for her dog’s carnivorous diet, amusingly pits her overwhelming love against a more rational awareness of her hypocrisy. Her acknowledgment of this, a further gap between her ideals and actual practice, only further endears her.

Sara Pascoe: Success Story is on tour until Saturday 22 April; reviewed at Pavilion Theatre, Glasgow.