Thu Aug 16-Mon 27 9pm, Pleasance Courtyard, (6.40pm, Cabaret Bar, Sat Aug 18 and 25), Edinburgh, £12-£13 (£10.50-£11.50), 0131 556 6550

Recommending a Michael McIntyre gig can be difficult, though not because he isn't a fine stand-up. He is one of the best in fact. But he's such a prolific writer of top-drawer material that you never know which routines he'll reel off on any given night.

Above all, McIntyre enjoys amusing himself and, if the audience compels him in a particular direction, he's happy to leave the pre-prepared bits waiting in the wings, riffing along with his devil-may-care stage saunter and Cheshire cat grin.

There's no boundary pushing, no personal revelations, just brilliant observational humour - on overtaking in the car, snowfall or the clocks changing - truly the most mundane subject matter, yet he can spin an eloquent 15-minute routine from all of them.

Son of the late Canadian comedian Ray Cameron, McIntyre's own experience of becoming a parent has coincided with him becoming even more nakedly ambitious and presumably, unstoppable, in his quest to play the big theatres and garner more television work. A comedian whom others admire through gritted teeth, at this Fringe it seems Michael McIntyre's time has truly come.