With James Acaster's stand-up you know you are never going to be subjected to an hour of bog standard, Dave-friendly observational humour.
But this time he outdid himself with Recognise - a show hooked around whether he is actually an undercover cop infiltrating the comedy word to snare gangster comedians, and a long-running gripe with Pret A Manger over its free banana policy.
Bonkers? Yeah, a bit. Brilliant? Not far off.
This show not only revealed his eye for the absurd, but also a more confident, authoritative presence.
Acaster's plus points were his exquisite delivery, an uncanny ability to interweave the most random threads with killer precision - there was a great link between Torvill and Dean and his on-stage routine - and his knack of extracting wonderful surrealism from the most mundane situations.
At times, however, his pay-offs were a little laboured, and there was one you could see coming from ten paces, but these are minor quibbles.
Undercover cop or not, Acaster's raw talent was easy to detect.
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