The latter debunks lad attitude (the antithesis of this charity shop chic jester) in a style reminiscent of Stewart Lee or Richard Herring, but suffused with enough of his own personality to sound crisp and fresh.
Lad attitude Skinner was one of the BBC's biggest stars in the second half of the 1990s, with a chatshow on BBC1 and BBC2's Fantasy Football League, which he co-hosted with David Baddiel.
Watching his DVD gig, there's zero sense that (like Lee Nelson, say) he's adopting a fake persona to send up or exaggerate "lad" attitudes.
"We have a very young side, they are a brilliant set of lads, their attitude is fantastic.
He's a good lad, great attitude.
"He started some way behind most of the other lads, but his attitude has always been positive and he has always been eager to learn.
The doddering retired majors, or teenage lads, with unreconstructed attitudes to homosexuality, stride further back into social conservatism.
"The attitude the lads have, the commitment, the work-rate, the passion - they want to do well for the club and they want to do well for themselves.
