Chris Ryan and Luke Heggie are not new to this game. This game of standing in front of strangers and making them laugh with made-up words. And so it is that they have the confidence in their craft to tell us that they’re trying out fresh material on this early evening slot. No cheap alcohol fuelled laughs here for the asking.

First up was Chris who after an initial slow start soon hit her stride with her inner travails and outer challenges. It could be her mum expecting that the audience would like a little dance (we didn’t get one) or the facile nature of a society where some get their best kicks from a Saturday night dress-up party.

Treading the line of outing her inner voice while being funny clearly comes naturally to Chris, her insights as dry as a WA January yet never with painful blistering. This is not an attack on those not present, simply bewilderment.

And the bemusement at her own condition continued into Luke’s dissection of what it’s like being the embodiment of toxic masculinity. At least as far as his teenage children are concerned.

It isn’t easy to appear to be politically incorrect and funny these days. Indeed, maybe live comedy is one of the few places where the finer aspects of delivery, context and intelligence can allow satire to live.

And this is the point. Almost all of what Luke delivers is “wrong” and it was fantastic. If Chris was the introvert character sharing how difficult it is to be alive today Luke was the extroverted persona wondering if this might be the end of human evolution. Every word of his counted with even throw-away lines carrying a bite of insight.

The common factor between the two is a slight bemusement at how we got to this point as a society and that in fact, we might not be long for the end. Albeit with great-looking scrotums.

Highly effective raw material for sure.