Live at the Apollo

Something about the set-up of this show – mega-venue, bright lights, dry ice, thumping music – makes comedians go for the Big Delivery. There’s often a hyper feel to the routines, so even if the material itself is middling, the sheer adrenaline makes jokes land with a bang.

That suits tonight’s host Gina Yashere, who has the ability to pulverise an audience with routines – about snoring, say, or casual racism – that only she could make funny, via force of personality (and shouting). Britain’s Got Talent winner Lost Voice Guy doesn’t have the option of cranking up his delivery: it’s all pre-recorded. But a unique approach that really shouldn’t keep working, still does.