Beaming from ear to ear as he enters the room, Darren Harriott immediately puts his audience at ease. Buoyed by his recent years as a small-screen celebrity, the comedian has put together a show of gentle anecdotes mostly sustained by his admittedly magnetic persona.

Harriott is certainly a fan of pop culture, and it shows as he spends a large portion of his set referencing his well-documented Kanye West fandom. Whilst he finds comedy through a personal connection to Kanye’s music during the superstar’s recent tumultuous years (West was Harriott’s Celebrity Mastermind specialist subject), he quite often relies on simply recounting popular events rather than using them as fuel for further jokes.

Equally, he sometimes jumps into topics without making connections to the rest of the material in a set which ends up killing momentum a bit. An extended section on his experience as a Midlander during the London riots is interesting enough but without a natural link, its impact is lacklustre. Harriott has become something of a ubiquitous television presence recently and it is not hard to see why. Despite Roadman’s shortcomings, his natural charisma largely carries it through. Instead of big punchlines, he seems content in charming his audience for 60 minutes.

Darren Harriott: Roadman, Pleasance Courtyard, until 27 August, 7.40pm.