But he doesn’t! I missed Boerman’s hugely successful promotional stunt – folding a fitted sheet in Cuba Mall a few weeks ago – so I was hoping to be educated. But there is no demonstration tonight. I will have to rely on YouTube I guess – as Dan is, for flirting and sex tips after the breakup of his long-term relationship. He is out of practice.

This is the premise of his show and the story behind its title. He is relating what he has learned from his feelings of helplessness and bewilderment without a woman in his life. He extrapolates this to all men’s reliance on the women in their lives. Bravely, he adds no gender-fluid qualifications to his claim. There is no Rainbow Community acknowledgement at all. This may be a harbinger of a new reality, where such qualifications and acknowledgements are assumed to be understood… and let’s just get on with the jokes. I am not in a position to say, but I would have thought the struggle for equality is still extant.

Boerman does not stick very tightly to his theme. The show begins with a comprehensive grilling of the front row audience, which he also weaves into his conclusion. In the meat of the show the laughs are gentle rather than side-splitting, but the audience responds with warmth. Boerman’s insights are poignant and awkward at times, making this more than simply comedy. It also means that the laughs are wry chuckles as often as they are guffaws. This does seem to throw Boerman, who is unsure of whether we are enjoying the show. We are, Dan.

Boerman ends a little short of the hour, and his energy does seem to have wound down a little – he asks how much time he has left when there are ten minutes to go. You know what I would have loved to see, and what would have been an ovated denouement – demonstrating that sheet folding!

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