Touching on everything from relationships to politics and racism, Anderson had something for everyone – and the audience loved it. A crack that didn’t quite hit its mark early on led him to warn that if that remark had offended, we’d better buckle up for the next hour. And buckle up we did.

A 17-year-old boy out with his mother provided much fodder for Anderson’s early crowd interaction. “She bought the tickets, right? Bet she thought, ‘At least that’s an hour he won’t be masturbating’.” Anderson went on to defend masturbating, saying it was a natural thing – everyone in the audience does it, including the boy’s mum.

Engaged couples give Anderson hope for the future. Given that 50 per cent of marriages end in divorce, he commented that he wouldn’t get on a plane if the pilot landed only once in every two attempts. This segued nicely into his stance on gay marriage (he’s for it) and a crack at those who use The Bible as a justification for denying gay couples the right to get married. The Bible says marriage is between a man and a woman, but it also says you have the right to stone to death anyone who works on the Sabbath, and beat with a rod children who answer back.

The theme of Wilful Misconduct seemed to be “let the morons go” (except he used a different word starting with an “f” and ending with “wits”). These morons include people who raced to the beach to take a look at the waves after a tsunami warning was issued – in Anderson’s opinion, such morons should be let go because they’re dumbing down the gene pool. His take on the “I grew here, they flew here” attitude, is that it must be fine to be racist so long as it rhymes. If there’s a draft, he’d swap three morons for a doctor any day. And no one but old white men refer to “the good old days” because they were the only ones it was good for!

Age incentives should be built into our culture, says Anderson. He believes it should be legal to smoke pot at the age of 30 – it would help you relax after your ridiculously busy and tense 20s. At 40, ecstasy should be legal because by that age you’re grumpy about everything. By 50 you should be allowed to consume magic mushrooms because you’re already into cooking, and at 90, heroin should be legal – at 90, it doesn’t really matter if it kills you!

This is a terrifically funny, smart and politically astute show.

At the Spiegeltent in the Garden of Unearthly Delights until March 13.