"IT'S become 'An Audience With' all of a sudden'," said Jason Manford, commenting on the impact that the audience's quips and questions were having on Wednesday's show.

Although the tour is entitled First World Problems, it was not the prepared routines but Manford's spontaneous rapport with the crowd that was key to his success. Despite being the 282nd gig in what was supposed to be a 230-date tour, Manford's performance did not feel stale.

It was his skill as a seasoned stand-up and his comfort being on stage that garnered belly laughs, even from the sometimes cringe-worthy 'Get to know the audience' warm-up.

Manford was so at ease with his abilities in this department that he joked about the lack of a support act, saying "Why pay sixty quid for someone to be a [worse] version of me?". This was an economy that "Ben from Bentley", the front-row-centre star of the warm-up, would no doubt have appreciated him making.

The show was self consciously and unashamedly trivial in its content, with Manford reflecting frequently on how embarrassed he would be to moan about any of these issues in front of people with actual problems. In Manford's world, the crowning tragedy of the night was the universal first world struggle of returning home from a "hard" day's work, only to realise that you stripped the bed that morning.

A joke about his "Talibanter" tour round Afghanistan came closest to causing a stir. This was not a revelatory routine, but anyone who manages to draw raucous laughter from a dilemma about Tupperware is well worth a watch.

Review by Charlotte Hutchinson