Sophie Duker: Hot Beef Injection review – bad encounters with men spun into great comedy

Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh
The standup is on sparkling form as she mines a lifetime of baffling and alarming experiences for a smart, purposeful and very funny hour

Sophie Duker is done with men. She swears it. And, in her fourth hour, Hot Beef Injection – named after a crude euphemism from 80s teen film The Breakfast Club – she is going to tell us exactly why.

Duker has had her fair share of relationships, tracking all the way back to her adolescence. “I did hand stuff with a 16-year-old boy,” she announces at the show’s opening. On reflection, though, most of those experiences have left her feeling, well, weird.