COMEDY

Rich subject matters for comedians – one’s parents, children, partners or other embarrassing relatives or spouses. If a comic is going to approach this area yet again, better that they come up with something original.

Appearing in Edinburgh as a debut Fringe comedian, Wilkins explains that her pedant father turned his back on the Swinging Sixties, in favour of accountancy training for a supermarket. Meanwhile her mum is an over emotional time bomb, exploding unpredictably at irregular intervals.

Fortunately this familiar family stuff is given a fresh kick by an energetic, infectious and compulsive performance – Wilkins is much slicker than a debut Fringe comedian should be. It was extremely wet the night I attended, the audience wasn’t exactly in the best of moods, but Wilkins very quickly lifted the room and cheered everybody up.

She’s good. And speaking as someone who prefers his comedians edgy – which Wilkins palpably isn’t – I look forward to seeing her career develop. If she can win ME over with this sort of material, then she’s on to something.