Sam Lake is worried about men: just like the media are every few years (‘where have all the real men gone? Think you saw one outside? It was probably three small women on each other’s shoulders trying to sneak into B&Q’). Why don’t men write validating disco anthems for each other? Lake searched for them online and all he could find was a YouTube video called ‘I’m Better At FIFA Than You, Darren’. And why do guys get a hard time on social media, just because of all that stuff they’ve been doing for centuries and keep doing with impunity?

The binding theme of this show is why more and more men are falling for the lure of alt-right shock-jock status: Eamonn Holmes is on GB News and Andrew Tate . . . exists. And so on. Isn’t there a more positive ideal of masculinity we can strive for? Lake thinks the answer is BDE (that means Big DADDY Energy, clearly) and he explains why over a nicely layered hour of material that takes its place in a proud pantheon of gay-men-understanding-straight-men-better-than-straight-men-do patter. With cum gags.

A patchy crowd gives off serious Midweek Lunchtime Energy, and at times Lake pulls focus to the appreciative front-few rows or lapses into overly rehearsed pacing. Still, these are circumstantial factors. Funny and zeitgeisty stuff.

Sam Lake: Aspiring DILF, Monkey Barrel, until 27 August, 12.05pm.