Elaine C Smith may sit among Scottish comedy royalty but she’s forever in danger of being upstaged by young screen newcomer Harper Blue Hamilton in the new BBC comedy short Govan Fair Queen.

My favourite comedy open-mic, the Loon Under Laughter, is only two minutes from a train station, but it is on a side-street, and drunks and rowdies never seem to find their way there, even on a Friday ...