Colin Ebsworth’s new ADHD-centred stand-up comedy show, Maybe He’s Born With It, Maybe It’s ADHD, is a hilarious, relatable, and distractible time for anyone riddled with, or constantly around ADHD. If either applies to you, I highly recommend catching this show.

The biggest strength of the show is how Ebsworth conveys ADHD through his performance. He is both incredibly quick on the mic and easily side-tracked, which leads to spirals of tangents that somehow feel simultaneously spontaneous, thought-out, and absolutely hilarious.

Loose comments about Round the Twist, awful innuendos he says to his partner, private school kids, and the Perth comic scene are lobbed into the audience without a second thought, and by the time you catch it, he’s moved on.

Again, this clearly and cleverly sets the ADHD vibe, but a good side-effect of this rapid-fire joke-telling is that you don’t have time to stop laughing - you get caught in a loop, laughing harder and harder until all you can make is a wheezing sound.

Ebsworth also has a variety of tools at his disposal, the two most prominent being a PowerPoint with some really well-thought-out sections, intermittently scattered between seas of childhood photos (cute and personable!) and “funny” stock images (very Millennial-coded), and a soundboard with a bunch of effects that he used once - which I’m still not sure was a planned bit or a genuine lapse in attention.

These tools varied in effectiveness, but even at their weakest, they never took away from the comedy or storytelling.

A fair warning for those who don’t like Nanette by Hannah Gadsby (or who prefer anything by Dave Chappelle), you might lose interest by the end, but as someone who enjoys Nanette, and generally-speaking, art with something to say, I both think it was an incredibly funny and, at points, moving hour of stand-up.

Go to this show - just don’t forget to buy the tickets.