Following the boneheaded Bullingdon Club behaviour of Cameron, Osborne and Johnson, there are two ways for a comedian to deal with having attended Eton and Oxford; to ignore it and adopt a mockney accent or milk it for all its worth.
Twenty-four-year-old posh lad Ivo Graham goes for the latter. And to jolly good effect too.
Having admitted he used to only briefly refer to his education as a "boy's boarding school", now he uses it as the crux of his act, not least because it helps him explain why it took him so long to lose his virginity.
There was a touch of the Simon Amstell about him as he painstakingly recounted his "arid" years, all seemingly stemming from his mother's warning that he would not be respected if he slept with someone in freshers’ week: "I basked in that respect for the next four years," he confessed.
Graham is at his best when playing on the juxtaposition between a background full of opportunity and his social ineptitude.
The fact that he now has a girlfriend could have scuppered this, but self-deprecating lines such as: "When I call and ask to sleep in her bed, three times out five she will agree," ensured he was still seen as the likeable outsider, whatever his background.
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