Andrew Ryan - Ryanopoly

Having worked in a bank, Andrew Ryan knows all the tricks in the book of Getting Your Money, and he knows how to get the humour out of them, too. Many of the funniest moments in this show are borne of his playful sending-up of the rigid application of the rules that govern how insurance salesmen and bank employees can interact with their customers.

But while there are some set pieces that build to lovely crescendos, they’re strung together with waffle that relies too often on being punctuated with Ryan’s cheeky smile to get a laugh. It takes a while before he settles, after some uneasy banter with the crowd, into the subject of his show: money and playing the capitalist system to bring some power back into the hands of the little man – it’s an interesting topic and Ryan is in a position to bring real insight to it, but instead too often makes a virtue of ignorance and skirts around the subject, peppering his speech with nervous repetitions that begin to grate.

Just the Tonic at the Tron, 556 5375, until 26 Aug, 7.40pm, £8.50 (£7.50).