"Don't tell the others about it here!", Sara Pascoe warmly tells the Brewery Arts audience - you get the feeling she has said it to every group of ticket holders on her 28 date Animal tour, but the Kendal residents evidently appreciate the praise of their South Lakes home regardless.

This is the thing about Pascoe - you cannot help but warm to her.

She is 35-years-old she tells us, but her mannerisms are more akin to a seven-year-old in the midst of a sugar-fuelled birthday party. Her shoes are made almost entirely of silver glitter and she is, self admittedly, a prolific liar.

But, despite her chaotic stage presence, there are great big punches of real humanity and obvious intellect littered throughout the evening.

Incidentally, she is also very funny.

During her 85-minute set she delves into what it means to be a 'good' person - something which Pascoe has been wrestling with, particularly during her thirties. Included in this investigation she tells the audience about her mixed feelings towards Tony Blair, her boyfriend's 'surprise' gift of life insurance and the time she convinced her own sister that she was, in fact, Pascoe's own daughter.

In part thanks to Pascoe's own method of delivery and in part thanks to her broad choice of topic (you have to do good, to be good she summises) very little that she said felt out of place.

Most significantly, even when she could have been, Pascoe's humour was not cruel or unkind - or if it was, only self-deprecatingly so. She spoke numerous times on feminism with all the humour that feminism needs for some people to make it a less scary word. She was crude without being gratuitous and clever but utilising the kind of glee that a child has when they desperately want to share the new thing they just learnt.

Pascoe's stories could easily have been a collection of falsities and half truths but it does not really matter - there is an honesty to her that the audience liked. The continuous stream of laughter she provided and the volume of the applause she received proved that beyond doubt.