Stephen K Amos: Everyman, Camberley Theatre, Sunday, January 9

THEY’RE a polite bunch in Camberley, if a little quiet.

“Sorry” shouted a woman in the audience after warm-up act Kelsey De Almeida pointed this out, with the Christian stand-up calling the reply “the most middle-class heckle” he had ever received.

Stephen K. Amos joked that it might be down to a full moon, not knowing there actually was a full moon on the night of his show.

“When we were driving in we saw your massive Waitrose and thought ‘how posh is this place?” said the West London comedian to his ‘Camber-lay” audience.

“But then we drove a bit further and thought, hmmmm.”

The audience - which presumably travelled to Camberley Theatre by canoe because of Storm Ciara - played a big part in the show with the charming Amos clearly determined to liven up the Sunday night crowd from its end-of-weekend slumber. He quickly woke them up by turning around the metaphorical spotlight, seizing on every cough and reply, leaving everyone wondering if they were the next target.

The youngest members, a 24-year-old field service engineer (what exactly is that?) called Steve was picked out before being usurped by a 19-year-old retail worker called Jack, who basked at becoming the centre of attention.

“You’re off the hook, Steve,” joked Amos before discovering Jack’s mother was a retail manager, with the dad presumably called John Lewis. Amos imagined the conversation between the three:

“Mum, I’ve met my sales targets. Can we go see the black comedian at the gymnasium by the big car park?”

“Is it Lenny?

“No, the other one.”

The comedian’s family and his upbringing was a rich source of material. Amos joked he won a competition with a sibling to come up with the poshest English accent, as he’s kept it for the best part of 30 years.

He also recalled the time he feared the worst after getting 11 missed phone calls from his dad during a one-hour drive across London, but the emergency was only a lost remote control.

One of the biggest laughs was about the lack of portable music devices in his younger years, saying: “We had a record player in a suitcase.

“One day I went to a party and brought the wrong suitcase along. There was a sewing machine inside - it was a Singer.”

He also touched upon his sexuality and the lack of gay men in the audience before talking about his experiences on the Pilgrimage: Road to Rome BBC show.

An anecdote about one of his fellow pilgrims rightfully drew a gasp, but it was clear the experience and his audience with the Pope had a profound effect.

Encore over, he probably got a lift with Noah back to the Big Smoke. Middle class audience or not, Amos was a class act.