Comedian Luke Toulson talked to me last year about the difficulties he had of finding places to do Edinburgh previews. This year he has taken the matter by the scruff of its neck and set up his own comedy night at the Crack Comedy Club on the South Bank. On Wednesday evenings starting tonight Toulson will be doing previews of his show and there will also be another act running in their new work. Tonight it’s spiky Aussie Felicity Ward and future weeks will include Sara Pascoe, Paul Sinha, Carl Donnelly and James Acaster. But let’s focus here on Toulson’s show, Grandpa, Hitler and Me. Toulson was talking to his mum about the 70th anniversary of VE Day a while back and she mentioned that she had several hundred letters that his grandfather had written to his grandmother while serving with the Royal Engineers in France, North Africa and the Middle East during WW2. Toulson read the letters and has now turned them into a show, which offers an insight into one very small relationship during a time of global conflict. Toulson is a very funny man so hopefully this will be funny as well as insightful. And even if it isn’t it is probably the only Edinburgh show this year to include a tale of a drunken attempt to climb a pyramid.

Luke Toulson is at the Crack Comedy Club on Wednesdays throughout July, tickets here, and at The Stand from Aug 5 - 30, tickets here.