Ava Vidal referred to her show – Not A Keeper – as a project. Via Facebook she had asked women and gay men to recount that moment when they knew the other person was “not a keeper”, ie no future. For most of the show she simply read what they had written, punctuated with expletives the audience assumed to be punchlines.

The message was “women are conditioned to accept s***”. Clearly Vidal’s benchmark was stories which best displayed how much s*** women will tolerate. Barely ten minutes in and Vidal was reading about a man who wanted to masturbate over another man’s feet and that was as profound as it got, the placenta story being the lowest of a good many lows.

Technically poor – the song stings were desperate – when a man got up for the toilet Vidal stopped, watched him leave then called him “a tosser” – an amateur night. Every time she picked on “Hetero Man” she was shouting at every member of the audience.

Is this comedy for women only and not intended for “Hetero Men”? Or is this a woman, too scared to be vulnerable, desperately clinging onto the lowest common denominator?

Surely it’s better to make “Hetero Man” laugh at himself through intelligent humour than bludgeon him with brutality?

At the end she referred to herself as an “eternal loser” with men. If her relationships are as shallow as her comedy, that comes as no surprise.