He doesn’t mind being called pudgy and he’ll tolerate being classed as well-spoken; just don't tell him he looks like a Tory boy.

It's fair to say Joe Wells’ visceral hatred of the Conservative Party is as strong as his aversion to dropping his aitches or hitting the cross trainer.

In the debut outing for his Night Of The Living Tories show, Wells showed why he is one the finest young political comics doing the rounds; he's bold, cutting and, at times, ruthless.

At his peak he was unstoppable, especially when it came to race. He turned Bernard Manning jokes on their head - cleverly swapping the butt of them from black people to Conservatives – while later brilliantly belittling the “ain’t no black in the Union Jack” chant so favoured by the BNP and EDL.

The set wasn’t without fault though, not least because Wells had a tendency to resort to simplistic attacks on individuals – Michael Gove and Nick Clegg in particular – that have often been heard before.

And while the finale – a laugh-out-loud take on the voice adopted by so many performance poets – was bang on the money, it felt more like an add-on than a finely crafted conclusion to an hours’ political rabble rousing.

Wells is well worth keeping an eye on, even if he isn’t full-blown comedy revolution just yet.