Twelve-year-old Lily Blumkin time-travels in to make fun of her 28-year-old self for still clinging on to a childhood dream of becoming a star. But New Yorker Blumkin has done well to ignore her inner smartass cynic and focus on the many other voices in her head instead. Like the wannabe stand-up comic Rabbi grabbing the mic at a Jewish funeral to drop some ‘zingers’, or her ex-boyfriend accidentally confessing his crush on his best dude-bro friend. Nice Try is a one-woman show, with help from Chappell Roan and Charli xcx, Blumkin sliding competently between the painfully supportive dad trying to be down with the queer kids and grinning like a try-hard klutz showing allyship to his gay daughter, to embodying the drunk HR woman singing at the office party like a canary about the gender pay gap.

Blumkin’s debut solo show has many enjoyably weird cameos and she clearly has an eagle eye for detail and dialogue (that’ll be why she got the job as a writer and performer for The Daily Show). Not every skit lands perfectly, but there is enough colour and intelligence here to make sure this is not the last you will see of Blumkin.

Lily Blumkin: Nice Try, Gilded Balloon Patter House, until 25 August, 5.40pm; main picture: Mindy Tucker.