This year, rookie comedian Kent Valentine answers the eternal questions: ‘How can I live without you?’, ‘Should I stay or should I go?’, and ‘What shall we do with a drunken sailor?’ The answer: roll him on his side so he doesn’t vomit on himself.

Kent is as amiable as Adam Hills, as raw and energetic as Wil Anderson, and as dorky as a young Rove McManus before his move to Channel 10. But he’s not them’he’s him.

Valentine has based his show around the guiding premise: what would Jesus do? However, being that Jesus had several water-related superpowers, Valentine decides that Jesus mightn’t be the best example for an ordinary guy to follow. Instead, Valentine consults Batman, a self-made mortal god with ‘really great branding’. From this, Valentine builds comic stories about his everyday life with the voice of Batman providing commentary and advice.

What emerges is a series of dialogues between Valentine, the characters in his stories, and the husky voice of Batman. Because he’s a whiz with accents, his lightning-fast switches from character to character are absolutely cack worthy.

Valentine still hasn’t shaken his penchant for pointing out his mistakes, an unfortunate sideeffect of having his act so thoroughly rehearsed. But all is forgiven because the stuff that does work is so damned good. I saw Kent last year. I saw him this year. And I’ll definitely see him next year.