“If you are heterosexual , let me warn you, you are seriously in the minority tonight,” warned comic Susan Calman at the start of her Lady Like show.

As the fourth best lesbian comedian in the UK (after Sandi Toksvig, Sue Perkins and Rhona Cameron apparently) she did seem to have attracted an audience which leaned towards the female gender.

Yet for sheer energy, inventiveness and hilarity, Calman would rate highly in the best comedian stakes, gay or not.

Her open-hearted and funny anecdotes about her life ranging from giving her beloved cats middle names and individual theme tunes to how she had a nervous breakdown last year thanks to the evil trolls of the internet reveal a comic growing in confidence.

A regular star of BBC Radio 4’s The News Quiz, Calman cuts a tiny, somewhat pugnacious figure looking like a snooker player in her waistcoat and trousers as she struts the stage, lunging on one leg and flattening her hair to her head . Ladylike she isn’t but the title of her show, as she explains, covers a much more serious issue.

It’s about liking herself as a lady and she outlines, through a string of funny stories, some of the reasons why she has learnt to love herself. By the end of a fun evening, she had clearly captured some more hearts in the highly appreciative audience.