When The Stand moved to its new venue in a former church last autumn, it resurrected its Sunday Service shows, with a more relaxed energy than you’ll find on Fridays and Saturdays. Even on a bank holiday weekend, host Jojo Sutherland doesn’t try whipping the crowd up, instead finding empathy for her grumbling dissatisfaction at hitting 60 and getting creative on dating apps, her sardonic misanthropy setting the mood amusingly. By contrast, opener Liam Farrelly is still in the weeds of parenting, scrambling around as a 26-year-old father with a young daughter, his slightly feckless persona befuddled by life. Yet the Paisley native knows a strong premise and how to eke plentiful laughs from it, with his routines about misogynist graffiti and owning troubled guinea pigs tightly crafted, even if he fudges some of the timings.

Relative newcomer Gita Blaze is a card, a Latvian who grew up in the Soviet Union, whose faux-naif immigrant comprehension of Scotland and efforts to convey her culture are very much a work-in-progress, with slightly laboured writing. But alongside some rudimentary props, she carries her mushroom-heavy set with considerable charm. Usually geniality personified, headliner Ray Bradshaw was replacing Larry Dean at short notice and suggested scurrilous rumours of the SNL UK star. Taking caustic swipes at the US, he was happy to catch a Uruguayan in the crowd as collateral damage. Bradshaw’s casual, unhurried delivery segues smoothly between joy and tribulations as he discusses his mild dyspepsia, exacerbated for him as a hardcore football fan by missing the World Cup due to his second child’s imminent birth.

The Sunday Service takes place, unsurprisingly, every Sunday at The Stand, Glasgow; picture: Daryll Buchanan.

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