It was ADC Smokers that introduced me to the idea of a pundulum; a pun so bad that it swings back the other way and becomes funny. The cream of Cambridge’s comedy crop was on display this evening in a riotous affray of wordplay, eccentrics and a courgette-induced stroke. After dedicating the evening to ‘the beast’; the ADC’s long-standing techie, the pundulum immediately started swinging, with Pierre Novellie and Jonny Lennard as crime scene investigators dishing out puns that would make Milton Jones proud.

It’s a much-cited truism that sketch comedy is hit and miss, but this evening’s entertainment nearly exposes it as false. Whilst there were occasional lulls – the elderly couple of Karen and Anthony were at least as sinister as they were amusing – they were only occasional, and the quick wit and rapid pacing of the sketches meant that for much of the evening it was only during scene changes that the audience could pause for breath. By the sound of it, not all of them took that chance as Phil Wang and Alex Owen’s wildly erratic yokel accents provoked a breathless heckle or two. This didn’t detract from the humour; their Gumbo sketch had a woman in the front row burbling like a drowning frog throughout.

Oddly enough, there was only one stand-up act in the entire evening, and his inclusion paid dividends; providing relief from the otherwise frantic pace. Describing why he wasn’t doing comedy songs any more, it was because they didn’t appreciate his attempt at topicality at King’s – “we could just pay the fees”.

It’s difficult to pick them out, and it seems churlish to try but even amongst the consistently high standards, a few sketches shone above the rest. The macabre children’s author was a fantastic conceit; he is famous off the back of his previous book ‘sleepy daddy drives home’ and ending up indulging in geopolitical analysis of the Lion King. Ben Ashenden is the complete comic performer – his delivery was perfect and Buddy’s car shop advertisement a piece of mumbling brilliance. A Batman & Robin relationship guidance sketch brought lurid sexuality to the table - Alfred having to be hospitalised because of an intimate acquaintance with a courgette - and the best (and only) Chuckle Brothers reference of the night.

Throughout the Smoker the laughs came thick and fast. With this variety of talent upon display there was, if anything, a surfeit of wit.