Buoyed by his Edinburgh Comedy Award nomination, Ed Night begins Your Old Mucker by assuring the crowd that he’s now firm friends and on equal terms with Richard Gadd before detailing an imagined confrontation with the Baby Reindeer star. This topical opener neatly demonstrates Night’s ability to strike a clinical balance between insouciance and braggadocio, and the tension he creates (and then, as he himself points out, releases) permeates the whole hour and brings a real frisson to the room. Graphically depicting his awkward domestic situation (multiple flatmates, high ceilings, extortionate rent), Night paints a wonderfully detailed picture of his London neighbourhood, the location in which most of his wonderful stories and observations take place.

Throughout, he precisely controls the cadence of his sonorous voice, and the result is a hypnotically rhythmic delivery that often sounds more like poetry than stand-up comedy (but with all the laughs you’d expect). After explaining his financial illiteracy, he subverts it in absurdly hilarious ways. It all comes to a head with a hypothetical showdown with his energy supplier that might be the most convoluted, imaginative and brilliantly-crafted joke of the Fringe.

Ed Night: Your Old Mucker, Monkey Barrel Hive, until 24 August, 4.45pm; main picture: Tom Harrison.