Desiree Burch is busy attempting to make her lunch for the week when I call to chat about her new show “Desiree is Coming” at this month’s Women in Comedy Festival in Manchester.

“I don’t like female comedians” is the mindset that Manchester’s Women in Comedy Festival 2019 aims to debunk with a whole month of performances by funny ladies across the city.

“These dead eyed idiots will never be pleased by what I have to offer,” grumbled the French comedian Marcel Lucont about certain ungrateful audience members he had encountered – the funnyman plays Manchester September 17-19 and expect brutal gags.