A bisexual, redheaded New Yorker based in Dublin with a corporate job in tech, Madeleine Munford shuffles through a varied deck of identity cards in this introductory stand-up show, though it wouldn’t be too disparaging to summarise her as a hot mess. She affects a high-status persona, revealing that she took one heckler home for a one-night stand in which they proved a little too eager to please. And she's carnally unfulfilled by Irish men. But hers is a thin veneer of confidence that she's never far from dispelling to expose her insecurities and paranoia, making a threesome sound like the most regret-heavy situation ever. With knowing self-mockery, her Anglo-American assurance undermined by her time in Ireland and Paris, she laments that she's 'too straight to be gay, too hot to be straight'.

Conversationally candid, Munford is a therapy veteran. And it shows in her willingness to talk about all aspects of her life, not always with identifiable punchlines punctuating the routines. If the writing is a little undercooked, she's charismatic enough to hold the stage and always breezily engaging. Her strongest suit is not, as you might imagine, culture clash observations about the differences between the US and Europe. Instead, it's about the complex make-up of her friendships. And the difficulties in dating women after her experiences with men have given her such a wretched blueprint and naivety about gay hook-ups. These routines afford Munford some distinctiveness and knotty issues to unpick, compelling subject matter as she perhaps seeks to up the gag rate.

Madeleine Munford: Stand-Up, Look Pretty, reviewed at The Riding Room, Glasgow, as part of Glasgow International Comedy Festival.