Fin Taylor returned to Have I Got News For You this week for the first time since a gag he cracked about Jeremy Corbyn on the show elicited death threats towards him. It isn't possible to gloss over the vile reaction to his joke, which was not limited to promises of violence against the comic alone, but it receives only passing mention towards the end of his latest hour. It is worth remarking upon for context given the environment that this sharp, drolly daring cultural commentator is operating in and merrily dancing around.

Personal safety concerns notwithstanding, the tribal Us vs Them nature of most contemporary debate is a gift to a comic prepared to adopt, feign or abandon viewpoints in pursuit of the funniest take on an issue. As he's previously demonstrated with shows about white privilege and #MeToo, Taylor is exceptionally adroit at identifying the hypocrisies and inconsistencies of prevailing discourses and pushing them to extremes, twisting them into such shapes that he can wring out the genuinely disturbing, society-wide subtextual underpinning. Baiting gammons and snowflakes alike, he depicts each as reflections of the other and muddies their motivations.

Those previous shows have acknowledged and explored his privileged skin in the game as a straight, white middle-class man, while never compromising his approach as an opinionated, front-foot pundit. However, So My Wife is his most personal yet, waggishly reclaiming his patriarchal, possessive right to make modern 'Er Indoors jokes about his partner and baby daughter.

His tongue is carefully lodged in his cheek, but you have to admire the skilled way he incrementally builds from almost tender digs at his wife to a graphic portrait of her giving birth and the immediate aftermath, which is ultimately bestial in its degradation. Fin Taylor's critics often overlook his thoughtfulness and nuance. But it's worth pointing out that he's capable of going in ridiculously hard too, with some tremendous lines at the expense of Prince Andrew and a sustained slam of Eastern European cuisine.

Fin Taylor: So My Wife tours until Saturday 20 November; review from The Stand, Glasgow, Monday 25 October.