….No pressure on Widdicombe then, who thanks to being landed in it by James Acaster was clearly prepared to finish the comedy for the day by kissing a man with a burnt foot. Luckily for Widdicombe it turned out that the man had left. No doubt to hassle various bands on the music stages.

Instead the Last Leg co-host was able to entertain the crowd with an edited version of his touring show in which he finds himself bemused pretty much everything in the modern world, from being offered break in restaurants – “I’m not a duck” – to being offered a discount for sharing a sleeper carriage with a stranger. There’s a lock on the door he is reassured. That’s no good when the potential murderer is already inside, he noted.

The Devon comic has become pretty ubiquitous on television in the last couple of years and it is easy to see why. His humour is as universal as Michael McIntyre but Widdicombe himself is a bit more relatable. He’s the geek in all of us, recalling having a filofax when he was eleven even though he had very few business meetings to attend at the time or explaining how he forgot to get a spoon in Pret A Manger and had to eat his yoghurt on the train without one.

Despite the exasperation Widdicombe is such a relaxed presence onstage he can make you think he is not working hard to make you laugh. But while some of this material was well-worn this was a fabulously entertaining gig, jumping between set-pieces and more off-the-cuff asides and chats with the audience. At the end of the show he said how happy he was to be here. And he was probably even happier that he didn’t have to close by kissing a man with a burnt foot.

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