Stand-up comedy can be a tough gig. Particularly to a small audience when you can see each face laughing or looking around trying to make an exit.

For an intimate comedy show at the Royal Bath Hotel, this was all I was expecting and more.

The lovely Frank Honeybone compered the show and got the audience involved with a joke competition. The audience had to choose a well-known figure in the news and a household object and then decipher a difference between them for the punch line.

The various answers were close to the mark, but as we were the ones making the gags, there were no boundaries. Whilst the two things separately wouldn’t be funny, stand-up comedy is an escape from political correctness, which makes it laughable. The comedians know the line that they shouldn’t cross, so they march right up to it and just over it. They dare to say the things that we think.

Nick Wilty told us about his travels to different comedy shows and his leopard-print suited guests at his wedding. It was often based on comic timing, which sometimes was lost on the audience, but it was a new experience.

And then finally came Gerry K, he was comedy at its best. He was sharp, witty and plain silly, which worked with the audience. He made adult-humour jokes and even incorporated the noise of the fireworks going on at Bournemouth beach that night.