★★★★

It seems crazy to me that comic Kerry Godliman is playing a smallish venue in Brighton when she’s funny enough to rival many a more high-profile comedian.

TV viewers may know her from costarring in Derek with Ricky Gervais but let’s hope she also gets better known for her very funny, on-the-money stand-up. Topics in her quick, acerbic set ranged from the ubiquity of the Buddha, the stresses of modern parenting and the gentrification of your area.

She took the stage with confidence and held the audience firmly in her grasp throughout the set, hardly pausing for laughs before pushing on to the next sketch. She was angry, exhausted, a bit ranty and sometimes sentimental, female focused without being alienating, a woman in her 40s who doesn’t take any prisoners.

Godliman never resorts to men v women jokes but is bang on in highlighting the differences between sexes and the way women relate to each other which can be both supportive and occasionally irritating.

And she talks about being a parent just like real mums and dads at the school gate.