Jamie Fraser, a third-year English student, provides an hour of slick stand-up in his first solo show, In Real Life. The show is themed around the internet, social media and our interaction with these media.

"Who is Jamie Fraser?" the voice-over asks at the beginning of the show.  It turns out that Fraser, having indulged in some self-googling, discovered James Fraser is a swarthy Scottish hero of a series of erotic novels.  The audience is already laughing by the time Fraser arrives at the microphone. 

Fraser introduces his show, providing a clear vision for the hour, which he sticks to throughout.  Snapchat, Facebook, Vine and Instagram all fall prey to Fraser’s mix of irony and witty quips. The audience was laughing in agreement when Fraser ponders who invented "the ironically ugly face" of Snapchat and when he reenacts a vine of a cat riding a vacuum, which is also described as going round and round like Sisyphus. Fraser remains distinctly self-conscious of his quips, revealing an endearing and hilarious level of self-deprecation, when reading out some of the "sub-hash tags" he has invented he exclaims “who writes this s***?!”  Fraser remains interactive with the audience, asking questions, providing rapid comic responses and working spontaneously with the audience’s reactions.

Despite the general topic for the set, Fraser provides personal anecdotes and occasionally goes on a tangent, but always relates the content skilfully to his take on the internet and social media.  Fraser also displays a diverse comic style from innocent quips to more risqué jokes; his comic style is fluid and continuously varied.

Fraser uses a projector for certain moments during his set, which could have been tiresome had it not been used  at such well-timed moments.  The audience is treated to an interactive analysis of Fraser’s actual tweets with arrows pointing to parts such as "ironic hash tag".  Fraser’s tongue-in-cheek attitude extends to reading Jaden Smith’s tweets, then rereading and commenting that the young “heir to the fresh throne”’ (cue laughter), is “like Whitman” (cue even more laughter).

Fraser remains self-deprecating and charming throughout the set, stating at the beginning that one of his friends is not in the audience because he said that Fraser would inevitably be talking about himself all night.  Fraser provides comic self-awareness throughout and his pithy comments on social media and pop culture are to be applauded.  At the end, Fraser concludes that despite the perils of Facebook, life is good when there are cat vacuum vines.

The real success of Fraser’s show is that the audience will undoubtedly return home to google at least three things: cat vines, Jamie Fraser (the Scottish literary heartthrob) and Jamie Fraser (the In Real Life version).