At last year’s Fringe, Robin Grainger found himself hitting headlines because the audience at his first show was not just in single digits, it was a single number: one. An ‘audient’ as it is apparently called. Nevertheless, he ploughed on and did the show to a radio producer called Mike from Leicester. As it turned out there was no need to film himself crying on social media, as comedy critic Kate Copstick was outside waiting for the next show, overheard what was going on and tweeted about it. The result was that not only did he get an audience for the rest of the Fringe, he became famous all over the world too.

It’s a great story, which he of course relates here. Already having shown himself to be the kind of personable chap who’s not too proud to perform to one person, he’s a brilliant stand-up too. Grainger takes us on a journey from his home town of Portsoy in Aberdeenshire with its ice cream and claustrophobically small school to the (traffic) lights of Edinburgh.

Grainger’s is predominantly observational humour but what lifts it above is his glorious turn of phrase and larger than life visual adornments. His travelogue then loops back to Portsoy as he effortlessly blends poignancy in with the laughs relating a run of incredibly bad luck with three deaths in the family followed by the comical slapstick of scattering his dad’s ashes off a clifftop. Surely with skills like those he’s never likely to be without an audience again.

An Audient With Robin Grainger, The Stand 2, until 27 August, 8pm.