As a stand-up, Jo Griffin is something of an impressionist. Largely rejecting set-ups and punchlines, she instead shares a chatty but relentless monologue of her anxieties and insecurities. Her humour emerges incrementally in broad brush strokes of wry self-analysis and casual crowd interrogation, even when she’s only seeking reassurance that she might be more-or-less normal. 

In her mid-thirties, tutoring over-privileged kids who ask her destabilising questions, their panicking parents an ever-present background hum in her life, Griffin shares an overcrowded home with strangers and struggles with her ex’s engagement to another woman. And she yearns in vain to eavesdrop on men sharing their true feelings. There may not be anything particularly profound or unique in her concerns about being an instinctive people-pleaser who has perhaps sidelined her own happiness. But she’s an engaging talker and the show closes on a winningly upbeat note. 

Assembly Roxy, until 28 August, 7.10pm.