A year is a long time in comedy. When this standup was recorded, back in 2011, Max Clifford ("A parasite on a leech on a slug" as Parsons puts it) hadn't been arrested yet, and Gaddafi was still alive, furious at the west for "bombing all the equipment we previously sold him". While the likable Parsons is happiest chatting about politics, you suspect he knows there's an element of his Mock The Week-loving audience who would really rather he didn't; hence lighter riffs on Innocent Smoothies and finding underpants in a jar of Hellman's. Good fun, in any case.