A YEAR ago, almost to the day, I was in Parliament Street at the Great Yorkshire Fringe watching live cooking by a stand-up comedian with an appetite for being creative, involving a blowtorch, sander, plane and a shovel and other DIY tools.

As George Egg was banished by his doctor and wife to the shed on a strict diet, he repurposed his tools where he decides to prepare three healthy meals. It was an absolute blast.

Fast forward to this week and I was the first on the list to see George’s “brand new show”, according to the programme, which like last year, he is taking to the Edinburgh Fringe in August. I was hungry to see how he would come up with a battery of new quickfire jokes, as he rustles up some mayonnaise with a whisk attached to a drill or churns butter in a jar attached to a sander.

His brilliant quips about how you can get a lucky-dip meal by knocking down a Deliveroo cyclist and then use his cool box later to keep food fresh in the shed were hilarious. Yes, the show is just as funny as last year, because it is the same.

First up is breakfast with an egg poached in a zip bag alongside a kipper beneath a steaming wallpaper stripper on a tray, whilst croutons are oiled and crisped with a heat gun. The stripper is also a good gift for a groom on a stag night and fantastic for exfoliating your face.

With breakfast over, lunch gets underway by cutting fresh pasta into spaghetti in the paper shredder. Dinner is dramatic with steak blow-torched on a garden spade. Position the flames further away for rare or medium, but hold closer if you are working class.

The gags continued from last time and after a while I had the pleasure of being rewarded with the punchline I expected. At least I wasn’t disappointed.

As George the good egg invited his audience to sample the food, he asked them to dispose of the plastic forks responsibly. He’s obviously very keen on recycling.