Musing on parenthood, her home country of Iran, Facebook and so on, Shappi Khorsandi's show wasn't groundbreaking, but the audience was rolling in the aisles within minutes - she is hilarious.

Free from a comedian's gimmick - Jack Dee and his miserable face, Eddie Izzard's crazed routine - watching Khorsandi on stage feels like being in the pub with a mate. So much so, on several occasions I found myself desperate to join in: "Yeah, I know! And also when this thing happens, it's hysterical!".

In The Distracted Activist we were treated to snippets of Khorsandi's life as an Iranian refugee. Having fled her home country with her parents at the age of three to avoid death threats against her satirist father, they set up home in England, only to encounter the opposition and racism you would, rather disappointingly, expect.

Her sense of fairness and injustice is strong, and while she commented on attending protest marches and being interviewed on Al-Jazeera (they thought she was Liberty's Shami Chakrabarti), she also highlighted the absurdity of the necessity to do such things.

On the midwife who insisted on classifying her newborn son as being of "mixed race", she questioned, "Why can't we all just be part of the human race?" She then joked that every non-white person in the audience should join the BNP, before explaining her disappointment at having turned down Question Time, only to find out she would have been opposite Nick Griffin. What a shame - she might have taught him a thing or two.

Sharp, clever, ditzy, yet politically conscious, I nearly burst a blood vessel laughing.