KEEPING up with the Joneses can confuse even Milton Jones himself.

The Temple Of Daft introduces not only his "Indiana Jones/Milton Jones overlap" but also Milton's great-uncle, the globe-trotting explorer Sir Randolph Digby Jones, a new character to set the show in motion instead of Milton's granddad.

At one point last night,, he is playing bearded Sir Randolph in conversation with Milton over a series of crudely-drawn squiggles featuring the blue-bearded explorer when Milton accidentally calls him Granddad. He pauses, waits for the mistake to lodge with the Barbican full house, then starts an internal discussion with Sir Randolph that we all can hear.

It only adds to the joyous surrealism: the new fifth gear for the grandmaster of the one-liner as he explores new ground in The Temple Of Daft. Switching from hand-held microphone to a headset to bring greater mobility to his repertoire, he now runs and jumps while still spinning the golden one-liners, changing the pace with projector gags and having caricature fun with the other Joneses.

There is a set design of sorts, with a white screen and three black plastic chairs on a platform, one of whch he turns into an aeroplane window that he peers through, his performance now as visual as it is verbally dextrous.

There is a story of sorts too, enabling Milton to link the jokes in a narrative chain while "loosely following a kind of adventure-archaeology type tale" involving Milton as the self-aware narrator, a girl called Amber, teachers and exploding "suicide tortoises" or terror-pins as he later puns.

The new Milton dresses the part, still with the trademark bedhead hair and loud, shouldn't-be-allowed shirts but now without sleeves, teamed with khaki shorts, boots with those discarded sleeves as leggings and Indiana's hat. Hats off to the more adventurous Milton Jones, The Temple Of Daft is both daft and deft, and the decision to stretch his comedy legs, work with a director (Ed Gaughan) and do a looser, yet still focused show has definitely paid off.

• Milton Jones, Milton Jones And The Temple Of Daft, York Barbican. Also playing Leeds Grand Theatre, May 24; Hull City Hall, June 6, 8pm. Box office: Leeds, 0844 848 2700 or leedsgrandtheatre.com; Hull, 01482 300300.