The funky punctuation and the promise of pop diva singalongs laid seeds of trepidation, but Luisa Omielan’s new stand-up comedy show was a stunner.

Interspersed with the best songs of Queen Bee and Destiny’s Child, the show’s interlocking themes include getting dumped, girl power and being inconsolably heartbroken.

But it also covered immigration, suicide, depression and a lot of other diverse topics that most comedians wouldn’t dare tackle.

Luisa Omielan is a new type of comedian: crude, irreverent and unashamedly outspoken but with a compassionate touch. She’s lovably self-deprecating but you still feel a bit afraid to sit in the front row.

This was Omielan’s second back-to-back show in Brighton Komedia’s Studio bar but if she was feeling tired, she didn’t show it. She’s got a way about her that makes you think she’d be great fun down the pub as well as someone who’d have your back in a fight.

Omielan credits her Irish ex-boyfriend breaking up with her as giving her the push to create the show. Thanks, Irish ex-boyfriend.