Miss Samia is an ex-primary school teacher, still single in her thirties despite the efforts of her Bangla Deschi Muslim parents and a close run-in with MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT.

I have no idea how much of that is true, and to what degree Miss Samia is a fictional character. I'll give her the benefit of the doubt when it comes to tales of her home life with her parents (who fortunately were not in the audience), but many of her stories of her dating experience and her teaching year three, including the circumstances that led to her being fired, are at best wildly exaggerated and highly improbable. Then again, she was certainly not the only liar in the venue, as the entire audience unhelpfully denied having ever been on Tinder.

What is probably more important is that these stories were being told by someone with a true knack for live comedy. Most of her material was entertaining, but on the rare occasions when one of her jokes failed to generate a laugh from the audience (and some of the punchlines were rather predictable), she didn't falter but plunged straight into the next story.

Her routine is a mere forty minutes including an opening act by an equally funny Sierra Leonean comedian (whose name I, unfortunately, didn't catch), and concludes with Miss Samia's serious but upbeat story about why she decided to try her hand at comedy. I have no idea whether any of that was true either, but it was engaging.

For me, though, the absolute highlights of the show were Miss Samia's one-liners about dating which sounded like truths universally acknowledged, including the best definition of a blind date that I've ever heard.

Catch her show now, and one day you'll be able to boast that you saw her before she was famous.