By his own admission, Andrew Lawrence's personal life and career has been nothing short of a car crash in the last 18 months.

And he’s bitter, very bitter.

In this show, the cheerily titled Reasons To Kill Yourself‎, Lawrence whinged, whined and unleashed a torrent of vitriol about how his girlfriend left him, his agent abandoned him and how his career is going down the pan.

Five years ago he was on Live At The Apollo, he told us more than once.

On Thursday he was playing to 70 people in the Komedia's smallest room.

Paradoxically, he spent half the show complaining he was not on TV, yet slated every show that could have given him a platform.

His anger was all-consuming, and sadly at times detracted from his stand-up abilities. There are few better than Lawrence when it comes to impassioned tirades, as he ruthlessly dissected his subject matter and belittled social norms.

But too often in this set he slipped into self-pity and deliberately sought to shock - his "gags" about the Charlie Hebdo shootings, needless to say, were cheap and predictable.

Lawrence could be one of the great outsider comics. It's just a shame he wastes so much time and energy complaining about not being on the inside.