Now Show, guesting on panel games and creator of a genuinely brilliant character, Giles Wemmbley Hogg. He captains a team on Argumental on the Dave channel, looks like an overgrown Dragon School boy and is a vocal campaigner on ecological issues.

He also mentioned the name Richard Dawkins early on in his stand-up show – entitled God Collar (having established that the vast majority of his packed audience claimed to be atheists) and achieved the truly startling result of big applause when he criticised him.

The show is a concerted assault on organised religions. It is unrelenting, genuine and goes farther than I have seen a frontline stand-up in attacking the concept and fact of faith. He is explicit about his approach: “I’m not just trying to be casually offensive”.

A sample: “Christians are more obsessed with gay people than gay people themselves”; “If you’re a Catholic, I’m sorry: it’s a genetic condition”; “Bags are for things, not for people – don’t put them on top of women”; “I look forward to seeing a tram with ‘Buddha was a t**t’ on its side”.

It’s heavy duty, delivered with posh panache. There was an extended sequence about foreskins, an attack on the first four Commandments as being prissy and a solid political dig comparing the plight of Palestinians as akin to gazumping. I enjoyed a diversion into climate change – “I get to grow peaches on my lawn – Frenchies get f****d!” – and Brigstocke’s view of people who live by their iPhones was estimable.

I enjoyed it and found it funny and clever. No one in their right mind who is a person of strong faith and shockable should have bought a ticket. But then I was intrigued and almost persuaded by a comment I overheard in the interval: “I’m waiting to hear him say something deep”.