“I hate wearing skinny jeans - I look like an upside-down traffic cone”.

Steering clear of the somewhat taboo subject of getting older is very much hard-wired in the DNA of many Brits.

But Kerry Godliman approaches the topic in a much more head-on manner than many of her middle-aged counterparts during her newest stand-up show, ‘Bandwidth’.

Although known for her acting roles in ‘After Life’ and ‘Derek’, it is Godliman’s comedy which she says is her real “first love”. And during a sold-out seaside gig at Ramsgate’s Granville Theatre last night, the London-born comic showed why she is still very much at the top of her game.

The coastal venue - which opened in 1914 and was relaunched two years ago after being forced to close during the pandemic - saw most of its 600 guests scramble to the hall in plenty of time ahead of the 7.30pm showing.

Tunes by Calvin Harris and Dizzee Rascal greeted them as they took to their seats before Godliman’s Belfast-based support act, Peter Rethinasamy, soon began getting plenty of laughs with a 30-minute performance filled with religious, sexual and cultural gags.

Following a quick interval, Godliman hit the stage to thunderous applause, a theme that would continue throughout the evening thanks to her abundance of energy.

It was clear straightaway the show would be dominated by personal, marriage and family tales the 51-year-old mum-of-two could relate to her audience with.

These included her middle-aged struggles with memory and anger, such as dealing with HRT and perimenopause - of which she tells her Google-searching GP she has “1,000 symptoms”.

Add this to “a friend catching me in the supermarket wearing Crocs with socks” and “my daughter even thinking about selling pictures of her feet to strangers on the internet”, Godliman says she simply doesn’t have the “bandwidth” to deal with the unpredictable nature of society today.

She adds this chaos lacing her life was compounded when she recently lost her handbag before forgetting what was even in it.

To deal with such disorder, she jokes, is a struggle, but one partly overcome by a new love of gardening, including the amazing “smell of the earth” which helps keep her sane.

The regular Taskmaster guest begins to divert her show with a more cheery vitality as it reaches its climax; indeed a home truth about “farting in front of Colin Firth” was particularly well-received.

Further quips about the tedious nature of busybody mums in WhatsApp group chats continue to strike a chord with an audience whose laughter shows no signs of abating.

When also discussing the purpose of the second, smaller WhatsApp group, known as the “slagging off some of those within the original”, Godliman says she herself was recently in a fit of hysterics when one parent sent a bad-mouthing rant about another to the main group, which all of its members could see.

However, in what was a complete juxtaposition to the rest of the evening, Godliman ended her show by paying tribute to father-in-law, Barry, who passed away earlier this week.

Having spent the evening voicing frustration at the pointless questioning she would always receive from him of which route she would take when driving to his Lichfield home, the announcement certainly made for a sombre finale.

But, like her other daily struggles, it evoked a theme of relatability which the audience had been attached to throughout an evening of unrestrained laughs on the Kent coast.