THE 'joys' of parenthood were at the forefront of Paddy McGuinness' new Stage show 'Daddy McGuinness' - his first since becoming a first-time dad to two-year-old twins.

With a stage set of giant alphabet cubes reflecting a child's nursery, the Boltonian comic, actor and host of TV dating show ' Take Me Out' devoted at least half his observational comedy to the perils of nappies and feeding - and at least two-thirds of the show to the perils of poo - not all relating to babies!

As much as his jovial yet self-deprecating stance and friendly repartee with the audience won me over, some of the risqué material and unnecessary excessive swearing left me cold.

It started well. Throwing up the house lights and bounding through the audience broke the ice as he chatted like old pals to young and old.

One unsuspecting 18-year-old has a string of gags related to him as Paddy recalled the days of blankets, not duvets, car chokes and no Facebook: "We had friends too ... But guess what: ours were real!"

Warning us that we would leave the show either saying, " I want to have children" , or "I want to have a vasectomy!" , the lavatorial humour came thick and fast. Amid the on- screen images portraying the parents' reality of food-smothered toddlers, bomb site bedrooms and CBeebies' Mr Tumble, there was even a picture of Paddy on the loo!

His tales of adult faeces and a sexual encounter were somewhat alarming although the physical comedy as he rolled around the floor was a hoot.

Tales of ovulation kits and DIY health check packs were funny too, though the masturbation gags grew a little lame.

The second half mixed things up with his comical musings on topics as varied and random as reality TV, spiders, Sunday league football and Sports Direct staff.

Overall it was a funny evening with a likeable if non-TV sanitised host!