MILES Jupp is slightly out of kilter with the modern world, just as a comedian should be.

"I do come at things from a different angle," he says, in the lead-up to Wednesday's York Barbican date on his Songs Of Freedom tour. "The show is a rant about me, you, domestic imprisonment, fatherhood, having to have opinions, hot drinks, the government, bad balance, housing, ill health, the ageing process, navigation and other people's pants.”

No doubt there will be new additions to that list of reasons to "get angry very, very quickly about inanimate objects" and more besides in a world that can leave him Jupp feeling "discombobulated" at 37. "You always add and subtract from the show on tour, ad-libbing something, then spending an age trying to get it just right for the next night, so the show is sort of alive like yeast," he says.

"What have I added? Astronauts; jobs I shouldn't have done; Duchy Originals, Prince Charles's extremely expensive biscuits. I'm trying to deconstruct the injustice of that, so the show's about things that I find annoying and looking to find solutions."

That said, Jupp does structure the show, working in tandem with director James Kettle. "He's someone to kick ideas around with, part confidant, part editor; someone to say 'this is too shouty' or 'there's too much quiet stuff in a row', and though the show isn't a play, it's something that lasts that length and needs to have a feeling of shape to it."

"Discombobulated" is Jupp's choice of word to describe his relationship with the world around him. "It's that state of being confused to the point of anger or despair," he says. "It's that feeling of 'how do I deal with this?' and there are more and more situations where that applies now.

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"The thing about this sort of stuff is that it's very frustrating at the time but you realise later that it's not important, but you wonder if it serves a purpose, if we have to have a certain amount of worrying about stuff that doesn't really matter, and I can then relax about being on stage talking about it to 1,200 people."

Jupp considers himself to be a "despairer", rather than anything more deeply troubled. "I'm not going through any crises, but if something irritating or embarrassing happens, if it later becomes routine, you may regret it, so it's better to talk about it."

What's more, there is greater entertainment value in stories of frustration and failure rather than glad tidings. "When a group gets together, hearing about things going wrong is far more fun than hearing about things going well," says Jupp. "That's not schadenfreude; it's empathy; you're laughing with them, not at them."

Jupp decided to leave behind London to settle in a Welsh Borders town with his wife Rachel and their five children. "Living in a town, there's always life to enjoy, but in London stuff was too big to deal with, like trying to deal with a big council," he says. "Whereas in a small town, the inadequacy of public officials, or councillors doing things you don't agree with, is far more tangible."

You might expect Miles Jupp to be a misanthrope, but not so. "I think I'm more an 'anthrope', who believes in the power of good and that people are capable of change," he says. "I believe you ought to be able to get on with people that are nothing like you and that we can understand different religions and beliefs."

Maybe that philosophy is what Jupp means when he calls his show Songs Of Freedom.

Miles Jupp's Songs Of Freedom tour visits York Barbican on February 22, 8pm. Box office: 0844 854 2757 or yorkbarbican.co.uk