Dylan Moran can’t wait to see you. He’s been away from the live comedy circuit for a while but he’s champing at the bit to return.

Now he is bringing his What It Is show to the Princes Hall in Aldershot on Friday, November 7 at 7.45pm (tickets £19, from 01252 329155 or at www.princeshall.com).

Is there a stand-up comic alive who handles words in a more captivating way? Not for nothing has Dylan been dubbed ‘the Oscar Wilde of comedy’.

Unpredictable, bizarre, elegiac, sometimes cruel and misanthropic but, above all, painfully funny, he dissects life’s highs and lows with the sensitivity and intense perspicacity of a man who occasionally appears to be teetering on the brink of a precipice.

He is a marvellously splenetic grumpy young man – and it’s that sensibility which invests his comedy with a rare edge. Moran is, quite simply, a mesmerising stand-up.

“I’m really looking forward to this [stand-up tour],” said the 36-year-old comedian, who hails from Navan in County Meath and is married with children.

“I’ve been sitting alone in a room for many months, and I can’t wait to get out there and try out all this new material. It’s a great feeling when you discover that other people are thinking about the things you’re discussing.

“Nothing beats it when the material flies,” he added.

Moran is a Bafta winner for his sitcom Black Books, has also appeared on TV in Simon Nye's How Do You Want Me?, and his film credits include Shaun of the Dead, The Actors, Run Fat Boy Run, Notting Hill, A Cock and Bull Story and the forthcoming A Film With Me In It.