With Trump re-entering The White House, these are, as Marcel Lucont drolly intimates, uncertain, anxious times. So it makes sense for us to look more fondly towards Europe once again. Interestingly, for all of his disdainful distaste for eBooks (wielding, as always, his well-thumbed moleskin notebook of verse), this latest show from Alexis Dubus’ Gallic poet alter-ego is a compelling blend of good old-fashioned gossip-mongering facilitated by modern technology.

In vino veritas, prior to the show beginning, a QR code link invites audience members to share their worst day at work, overseas experience and amorous encounter. Something about the dark, intimate confines of a comedy club and the receptiveness of Lucont encourages people to confess, with the intermittently appalled and intrigued Frenchman periodically bringing up these ‘whines’, playfully teasing more details out of the submitters.

Dubus has been touring this show for a while now, but in a further contemporary twist, he has just begun recording and editing the highlights for release as a podcast. So established is he as Lucont now, so at one with his dryly superior but observant persona, that he easily takes on requests for his best-known poems and nonchalantly ad-libs supercilious insults around whatever the crowd gives him; his barefoot casualness, pausing to sip from his glass, enhances the relaxed atmosphere.

However, Whine List only lives and breathes with the quality of the anecdotes it elicits from enthusiastic but amateur storytellers. And unsurprisingly, they’re of mixed vintage. So Lucont shrewdly also shares some of the choicest confessions he’s already received on tour. Not everything provokes uproarious laughter, but you suspect that offerings about getting trapped overnight on Alcatraz and fleeing a swingers party in the Faroe Islands will make the podcast cut.

Marcel Lucont's Whine List reviewed at The Stand, Glasgow.