Ardal O'Hanlon was always good in Father Ted and he has managed to translate the good humour he brought to Father Dougal's character into a credible stand-up routine.

Unlike many comedians he doesn't try to be controversial in his first live comedy tour for four years. There is no malice in his humour, just amusing anecdotes about his disappointed and embarrassed parents, the Irish smoking ban and mobile phones in cars.

Even calling the Brighton audience "you bunch of gay Gypsies" caused a laugh rather than a riot. And O'Hanlon is adept at turning his humour on himself, deriding his own name, which he claimed was the same as a small Norwegian town with an aluminium plant and a high incidence of Alzheimer's.

He then told the crowd he shouldn't be paranoid because his brothers were called Chernobyl and Sellafield.

Next he expertly took the audience on a flight of fancy with wide-eyed observations on everything from vasectomies to ineffectual condoms because they burst in your stomach when smuggling coke and how if smugglers were sensible they would stick the drugs up their dog's bum instead of their own so when the sniffer dogs came along security would just think they were getting frisky.

O'Hanlon's comedy is a bit like Dougal and his other television creation, Thermoman in My Hero - affable and chuckleinducing.

He doesn't try to be offensive, he doesn't swear every other word just to try and get a laugh. He is genuinely funny, quick-witted and very, very sharp.