Borrowing more than a hint of Stewart Lee’s openly disdainful performance style, Huge Davies is becoming a master of the craft when it comes to drawn-out jokes, wrongfooting his audience and reeling out unexpected anecdotes from seemingly simple premises. With a keyboard strapped to him at all times, you’re never too far from a well-chiselled observation on the music used in The Apprentice, the baffling sound effects in news broadcasts on Radio 1, or the melancholy of The Snowman. 

Tying these anecdotes together is the prospect of a murder mystery segment and a narrative thread about Davies reconnecting with childhood friends at a funeral. It’s a loose enough framework to let him veer into offbeat territory without ever flying off-piste entirely, giving him the space to spin quotidian observations into the realms of the absurd.

Even Davies’ strangest and most morbid observations remain accessible, hanging his most out-there material on recognisable stand-up fare such as stag dos, pop music and reality television, allowing him to sneak in sly discussions of racism and the self-obsession of contemporary society. He may present himself as morose and awkward, but the confidence in this show is difficult to deny. 

Huge Davies: Whodunnit, Pleasance Courtyard, until 27 August, 9.40pm.