Anxiety I

F, LIKE comedian Jon Richardson, you worry about everything, this new show will probably not do you any favours. From measles to tofu, vaping to salad bags, Jon says: “This show could be called: ‘So many worries, I don’t know how to cope unless I rank them all in order.’”

And that he does. Breaking down the anxieties, analysing them with a couple of guests and then sorting them in order of severity in his traffic light coded Worry Index.

It’s a bit like Room 101, but for fear instead of rage.

You also get the feeling that you are witnessing a therapy session. Perhaps this is something else we should worry about?

Some of Jon’s concerns seem totally reasonable – bursting eardrums, shaving cuts, nuclear apocalypse. Will his wife replace him with a robot? Will he die an embarrassing death?

But others are much more benign, such as bath wrinkles, flip-flops and apres ski.

Gary Barlow even makes the list. Yes, seriously. The man who wrote A Million Love Songs hardly seems someone to worry about.

In tonight’s first episode, Jon is joined by comedians Josh Widdecombe and Suzi Ruffell to address worries around the home. Are people sleeping badly? Are you all loading your dishwashers incorrectly?

Don’t expect anything to be resolved, but at least everything will be ranked neatly to help calm Jon’s nerves.

By the end, you may well have more anxieties than you started with. But you will have laughed a lot, if that in any way makes up for it.