He talks of inventing a hands-free cigarette for the nicotine-addicated motorist, then describes how people are so uninterested in global warming, they would fly to the shops to buy more patio heaters and that the samba rhythm on a Yamaha organ actually uses more energy than any other, an eco-warning to the avid keyboardist, perhaps.

The comic takes fragments of the everyday and re-assembles them in a bric-a-brac of absurdity, creating enough sparky commentary to warm up the stalls.

A decent audience proved willing passengers on this gently twisting odyssey guided by a well-established alternative comedy stalwart, most familiar as team captain on C4's 8 Out of 10 Cats. He also wrote and starred in the BBC cult, Storeys High.

Essentially whimsical, if he hints at controversy, it's merely that – "They say a woman's work is never done, maybe that's why they get paid less." The audience, covering a wide age range, could have been spared gratuitously obscene encore jokes – just unnecessary – but after two dynamic 50-minute sets he could not have departed more graciously.

Jayne Sheridan