George Egg’s quick-fire zany humour was the highlight of Screaming Blue Murder Comedy Club’s return to Eastbourne for the autumn season.

But while Egg left me wanting more, compere Windsor and last act Addy Van Der Borgh rambled on too long with weak material. And, although they proved to be larger-than-life characters, their attempts at banter with the audience often fell flat.

Van Der Borgh started with a couple of original tales, but he couldn’t maintain the momentum he’d created.

I was left wondering why The Scotsman had described him as a “comic genius”.

Welsh comic Steve Williams, making his Eastbourne debut, introduced some visual effects to his imaginative act, including how to out-do hoodies when it comes to making threats with imaginary weapons.

It was George, though, who proved to be a very good Egg indeed, building on the good-humoured atmosphere created by Williams’ quirky routine.

A lot of his jokes were visual. He pulled a bowling ball out of a normal-size briefcase, then brought on stage the world’s largest briefcase from which he produced a variety of hilarious objects and tricks. These included a staple gun with which he appeared to staple a five pound note to his head – until he let us in on the joke and showed us he’d used Sellotape.

Egg certainly lived up to his billing as one of the most original, interesting, innovative and whimsical comedy performances on the circuit.