Likeable Scouse comedian John Bishop is a natural storyteller and you could imagine him being an entertaining dinner guest.

His routine - which debuted at Edinburgh last year - is an enjoyable tale charting his journey from disenchanted nine-to-fiver for a pharmaceutical company to stand-up comedian.

Bishop's easygoing, laconic delivery is redolent of the kind of patter you get on a Saturday afternoon trip to the bookmaker's.

His globe-trotting tale of midlife crisis and reconnecting with family makes for a diverting 90 minutes of comedy.

Unfortunately it's all a bit conventional and nothing Stan Boardman wasn't doing 20 years ago. And the idea of a comedian doing a stand-up routine about becoming a comedian seems rather like a newspaper columnist writing about being a newspaper columnist - it's all a bit navel-gazing.

You'll leave Bishop's show feeling uplifted but it's hardly side-splitting stuff.