Though she resents the accusation her success is built on her unique niche in the comedy market, Shazia Mirza lent heavily on difference to provoke the midweek Komedia crowd into life.

Brighton may be a liberal town in many respects but it has never had the vast range of ethnicities of cities such as Mirza’s home-town of Birmingham.

It does, however, have something of a relaxed approach to sexuality and this made for a good angle as Mirza drew some hilarious comparisons with her approach to repressed Islamic sexuality.

This paved the way for more un-pc jousting with the intricacies of Black, Asian and White British culture – Mirza’s way of cleverly playing on the crowd’s prejudices.

Some were base, “Ryan Air – one big council estate in the sky”, others deceptively acute, “The Americans at Last Comic Standing USA misunderstood British women. I wore a miniskirt and a burka to represent contemporary Britain.”

Mirza is an excellent comic who has played Edinburgh five times but on Wednesday she lacked variety.

The performance was script heavy, predictably paced and had more than a hint of going through the motions as she shied away from off-the-cuff and perhaps unknown territory.