Joanne McNally: Pinotphile3Olympia Theatre, Dublin★★★★☆

“The women who come to my show, we’re similar,” Joanne McNally proclaims. “We are sound women. We like day drinking, but don’t mess with us,” the comedian says, to raucous laughter.

McNally, who’s in the middle of her almost sold-out Pinotphile tour, doesn’t allow for a single lull on Thursday night. Riffing off the enormous success of her previous show, Prosecco Express, she delivers a hilarious routine that’s the culmination of all that makes up her distinct brand: her boldness, her perpetual singledom and her signature relatability.

She jokes that friends console her about break-ups by saying she dodged a bullet. “Ladies, I am the bullet,” she declares.

This time of year might herald a resolve for new habits among some, but the My Therapist Ghosted Me host is sticking to her boozy guns, wielding an enormous glass of red wine – pinot noir, presumably – and declaring, “I have lost a lot of friends to wellness. It’s very sad.”

The show is broadly centred on the differences between genders, and the way she has watched her peers couple off and have children, which McNally describes as “missing the boat – but it feels like you missed a flight and then watched the plane blow up”.

Many of her jokes are stereotypical plays on gender dynamics, such as “I won’t say all men cheat, because that is statistically untrue: some men are dead.”

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The only bum note is when she jokes about Britney Spears, whose father and lawyer were controversially given control of her affairs between 2008 and 2021; the singer claims that, during the conservatorship, she was forced to take medications and perform against her will.

“Her da might be a pr**k, but he was right,” McNally jokes in a line that comes across as punching down. It’s still met with uproarious laughter from the predominantly female audience.

The final part of McNally’s triumphant performance has her riding in on a mobility scooter to the tune of Spears’s Gimme More, bar cart in tow and brandishing glow-in-the-dark dildos.

Exuberant and brazen, McNally delivers everything she promises.

Joanne McNally is at 3Olympia, Dublin, on Friday, January 9th, and Saturday, January 10th; then at Waterfront Hall, Belfast, on Friday, January 23rd; and at Cork Opera House from Monday, January 26th, until Saturday, January 31st. She returns to 3Olympia, Dublin, for dates in February and March