Kevin Bridges: What's The Story?

A little like Billy Connolly's early travelogues, this lazily formatted affair dispatches the young Scottish comic - the most recent beneficiary of the small-screen stand-up boom - back to Glasgow to tell us about the roots of his comedy, interspersing the nostalgia with stand-up clips. The latter is sound, unsurprising observational fare, although Bridges has great stage presence for one so young, and his foul-mouthed bonhomie covers a few cracks. Off-stage too he seems a nice chap, getting some mileage out of a chat with Frank Skinner (who inspired him to go into comedy) and a trip to Utah to meet a real Chad Hogan (the source for a popular skit), but a contented guy with a secure upbringing and a happy life rarely makes compelling television.

Kevin Bridges: How I learnt to be a stand-up comedian

He used to be too terrified to take to the stage. Now he's making millions laugh every week...

Kevin Bridges's chuckling man-of-the-people humour has sent the Glaswegian zooming up the showbiz ladder to a point where he now invites comparison with Billy Connolly and shared a sofa with Keira Knightley on Jonathan Ross's chat show last weekend. This new six-part series sees the amiable Bridges visit the places and subjects he mines for comedy; in tonight's first outing, Benidorm, Americans, and his parents.

Scottish comedian Kevin Bridges has had a rapid rise to stardom, and he's now a regular on the panel show circuit, as well as stuffing venues across the land. But as far as the tortured upbringing and that string of crap jobs most standups endure, there's not a great deal to go on. He was 17 when he first gave it a crack, inspired by Frank Skinner's autobiography, and it all went pretty swimmingly. So it's no surprise this look at his career is a tad slim on backstory, and heavy on clips of his assured stagecraft.

Kevin Bridges on his growing fame

"You do find that more women notice you. The more DVDs and tickets you sell the better looking you become. But while loads of people come up to me, I don't relax. I'm paranoid because I don't think she would speak to me two years ago."

Kevin Bridges: 'I was grateful for McIntyre big break'

There aren't many 25-year-old stand-ups as famous as Glasgow-born Kevin Bridges. On the circuit since he was a teenager, a Michael McIntyre's Comedy Roadshow appearance catapulted him to the big time.

Kevin Bridges: 'I still catch the bus'

His stand-up show is one of the hottest tickets of this year, with 120,000 people set to see him live in Scotland alone. But don't expect Kevin Bridges to abandon his Clydebank roots and turn into a celebrity - well not if he has anything to do with it.

Interview: Kevin Bridges

His comedy career is on a sharp upward trajectory, so why is Kevin Bridges still plagued by insecurity and neuroses?