JIM Davidson fans look away now. Jamie Kilstein is a tattooed, atheist, feminist, vegan New Yorker with a right on-sounding podcast called Citizen Radio and a penchant for T-shirts emblazoned with “Kale not Cow”.

Some might say the 30-year-old performing stand-up in Newcastle – home of pasties, Geordie Shore and Sid the Sexist – is a massive audience/performer mis-match.

Not so. Thankfully the venue was The Stand, not a stag-fest at the Hyena.

And hell, we’re not rednecks!

As he riffed through topics such as 9/11, his childhood quest for porn pre-technology, being the “cool uncle”, men’s top fantasies (taking out an entire room like John McClane with ninja skills they don’t have) and hilariously smashing arguments against gay marriage with delightful glee, all pre-conceived ideas soon evaporated.

Kilstein is outspoken but not preachy, clever but not smug and has a knack for turning people’s presumptions on their heads.

He doesn’t always preach to the choir either – disseminating what he calls “left wing bull****” with equal aplomb.

As someone who’s received death threats from the Christian right, much amusement is to be had from the bizarre Tweets and emails he receives from his detractors.

After appearing on the right-wing Fox News channel defending the hardly controversial position that “rape is bad”, someone tweeted “You’re a vegan. I’m gonna rape a steak!”.

After a particularly big laugh mid-show (“Now that you like me...”) Kilstein dropped the V-bomb – veganism.

A former junk food addict, he became a vegan for twin reasons of conscience and health. I’m a liberal carnivore, so whatever floats your boat.

Unfortunately, random strangers will happily berate his choices with such enlightened nay-saying as “Why do you hate God?”, and “Hitler was a vegetarian”.

Kilstein is best when he goes off on a rant. “If you don’t believe in science you shouldn’t be able to use science!” he proffers as a damn good reason for Dick Cheney being denied a new heart.

We know his rants aren’t spontaneous – one section on women being objectified is even written down on a folded piece of paper in his pocket – but it doesn’t matter as it packs a hell of a punch.