
Grace Campbell’s tour is called A Show about Me(n) and there is a good reason why the last letter is in brackets. This high-powered full-throttle monologue is very much about Campbell herself, with the men in her life merely picking up supporting player nominations.
Except for one leading man. Her father, former Labour spin doctor Alistair Campbell. The tousel-haired stand-up has inherited his penchant for forthright opinions and clearly respects him, even though she teases him at the outset when listing her various icks: “My dad worked for Tony Blair. Huge ick.”