Battling the inexorable draw of a crazed Tuesday night at Cindies, Milo Edwards was able to pull in a respectably large audience for his debut stand-up, ‘The Unbearable Shiteness of Being’ - a strong testament to his profile in Cambridge as that guy who some of us voted for in CUSU elections for no particular reason, but probably more importantly to his established pedigree within the Cambridge comedy scene. Certainly, if last night’s performance was anything to go by, it is a pedigree which has been well-earned.

Sharp-witted, smooth and with a refreshing dose of self-abasement, Edwards’ style washed comfortably over you, in a way which was casual without the comedian needing to dig for the laughs. His greatest skill was probably in the easy patter with which he told stories, and created little conversations on stage, evoking an imaginary telephone conversation with The Notorious B.I.G., rattling off a bizarrely rejected job application and trying to explain why he doesn’t like beetroot. The stories came fresh and fast but were almost all seamlessly linked to one another, or made up part of a running joke. Particularly amusing was his sendup of the atrocious Cortana advert featuring Clean Bandit, the one in which their self-belief and integrity seem to writhe in a sticky, butchered mess on the floor, and where in Edwards’ words ‘at one moment you can hear their credibility snap’.

If his set did have a fault it was probably the smoothness of the writing itself, occasionally the stories he was telling lacked a little comedic finish, when a few might have benefitted from a stronger punchline. Overall however, Milo Edwards handled a debut hour of stand-up incredibly adeptly, and his set displayed a seasoned performer who was as comfortable with the sound of his own voice, as the audience were, and who gave a highly enjoyable and entertaining account of his world.