Poking fun at his own inability to fill the smallest of the three Brighton Comedy Festival venues, Jerry Sadowitz claimed that, being a magician, he'd made half the audience invisible on purpose.

It's no wonder Sadowitz admits to being the most uncommercial magician on the circuit, as his extraordinary card tricks were interrupted by a torrent of F-words - most of which were directed at the audience.

Surprisingly though, obscenities roared in a thick Scottish accent merely served to amuse, rather than offend, and the anticipated paedophile/queer/terrorism rants were delivered with his trademark twinkling eye.

Sadowitz, unafraid to let rip at television tosspots such as Paul Daniels and Derren Brown, remained consistently hilarious throughout his masterful performance of slight-of-hand trickery.

In keeping with the Sadowitz style, his original combination of irony, bitter wit and modified hocuspocus, can only be described as "f***ing magic".