ONLY a decade ago, the comedian Danny Bhoy was performing in a modest 60- seat theatre at the Edinburgh Fringe. Now he is playing to sell-out crowds at the celebrated Festival Theatre in Edinburgh. The Bhoy done good.

Danny has become one of the most in demand comedians in the country. A star of the Late Show with David Letterman in the US and Live at the Apollo in the UK, he is now packing out venues all over the world.

One of Scotland’s biggest comedy exports, he has enjoyed smash hit tours of Australia, New Zealand and North America.

This is a comedian who is seriously going places – and he’s embarked on a 40-plus date tour of Britain with his new show Dear Epson, which visits Theatre Royal Winchester on Wednesday.

In a departure from his traditional stand-up show, Dear Epson focuses on a clutch of feedback letters Danny has written out of sheer frustration.

Exasperated by the hopelessness of so many corporate customer services departments, he initially penned these letters merely to let off steam – but in the process, he created an immensely funny show.

He could not be more excited about the prospect of hitting the road again and returning to the stand-up arena.

“I love stand-up,” beams Danny. “I adore the amount of freedom you have on stage. But above all, I love the fact that it gives you one of the best natural highs.

The buzz is just wonderful.

“If you have always been an attentionseeker – which I suppose I have – then stand-up gives you this amazing sense of euphoria. When you have a room full of people and you are in control of their emotions, nothing can beat that feeling. I get the most enormous rush from that.”

Dear Epson began, he tells me, with an idle conversation in a pub. “One afternoon when most people would be doing serious stuff at work,”

the comic recalls, “a friend and I were sitting in a pub.”

“We had a classic pub conversation which started with me asking, ‘Whatever happened to Roast Beef Monster Munch?’, and ended with me saying to my friend, ‘Do you know what? I am going to write a letter asking them to bring it back’.”

“I never got a reply, but six weeks later Roast Beef Monster Munch was back!

As soon as I saw a bag on a supermarket shelf, I started account.

“By the end of it all, I was so exasperated that, as a kind of catharsis, I wrote a letter to the company explaining my ordeal to them. I never got a response, but it represented closure for me. When you have been on the phone for days, and every time you are dealing with a different person, or put on hold for hours, you can never end that ordeal. A letter was the only way I could put it to bed.

“I sent it to some of my friends.

Quite a few of them said that I should put it in a show. It was not a traditional customer complaints letter – it was very sarcastic. I wrote it as if I was a madman at his wits’ end – that was the only way I could deal with it! I certainly didn’t think at the time that it would become a show.”

However, by this stage, the comedian had a taste for writing letters of complaint to companies – missives to Epson and Gillette soon followed. He explains that, “I really enjoy writing these letters. I also think it’s a very universal subject.

“The show is about aspects of life that everyone can identify with, the little things which irritate people, but which they would find it too frivolous to write a letter about. So I’m doing it for them.

“People will think, ‘Here’s a man who has taken the time to do the things I have always wanted to do!”

It’s one man’s crusade against the big bad world.”