Stephen Grant looks to the heavens for a victim

Comedian Stephen Grant has never been one to step away from a bit of verbal sparring.

The Brighton-based comic is well known for his skill in keeping a heckling crowd in check.

He welcomes the opportunity to bring down a peg or two anybody who dares to speak up during one of his breathless diatribes.

So with few people, animals or vegetables left to pick on, Grant decided to look to the heavens for his next victim.

While keen not to pick on any faith in particular, Grant did make it clear, in today's multicultural, increasingly-agnostic world, we were in dire need of a deity in which we can all believe.

So what better way than to worship our new creator than to have the audience shout suggestions and then get a drunk cartoonist to record the findings?

It is an intriguing concept, which, while in dire need of further development, worked very well. Grant was his usual bouncy self, leaving much of the work to the enthusiastic audience and ad-libbing to his heart's content.

It became clear very early on in the show that the real star was the lushed-up artist Guy Veneables.

When the show inevitably dipped, Guy's booze-addled demeanour provided all the laughs.

Given the one-hour time limit, it was a rushed affair which could have developed into something extraordinary.

When we could have had an amusing discussion on the growing trend of religious apathy, we had Polaroids of breasts and bum jokes.

But then, we were just having a laugh, for God's sake.