When Bridget Christie wrote her last show, Because You Demanded It, in two months of feverish frustration after the EU membership referendum, “It was massive and quite exciting”. But now, contemplating the rolling no-news of Brexit, “it’s this awful, boring, long-drawn-out thing that never seems to change,” she sighs. “Nothing that’s happening is new or surprising, they’re all things that we said would happen. And oh, God, I’d just wish we’d go now. “I’ve become a passionate Leaver” she laughs.

Since winning the Edinburgh Comedy Award in 2013 with A Bic For Her, publishing a critically acclaimed book and cultivating a global fanbase as the first female British comic to release an international Netflix special, Christie is feeling the burden of expectation. “Every new thing I write, I feel I can’t do it, I’ve got nothing and it feels like an insurmountable amount of work,” she admits. “What I’ve realised is I think about things for too long and then only put them together quite quickly at the end. It’s stressful but I probably work best in a bit of a panic.

There’s always that point in every year where I feel like an open mic again, where I go out with nothing and it looks like I’ve never been on stage before”. Debuting at the Glasgow Comedy Festival, her latest show, What Now? is a call to lay aside the division, resentment and recrimination of recent political upheavals and for people to band together. “Though hopefully, in an amusing way,” she ventures. “It’s about remembering that we’re all human and we all have the same basic needs. So let’s focus on those for a bit. We’re not here for very long.”

For stand-ups, being broadly likeable is often seen as a pre-requisite. But Christie acknowledges that “you can’t be all things to all people all of the time. “I first thought about this with A Bic For Her – I thought it would be completely alienating for 90 per cent of my audiences. But those were my genuine thoughts and perspective. And sometimes, you do just have to go for it. “With this show though, I wondered if I could write something a lot of people would enjoy. I’ve done quite divisive shows in the past that have been quite difficult, a lot of the feminism ones have had blokes walking out. “But we’ve got so much in common. And I don’t think anyone’s got what they wanted at the moment. Strangely, Brexit might actually unite everyone. There were all sorts of reasons why people voted for Trump and for us to leave the EU. And I think it will get worse before it gets better. But ultimately, I am optimistic.”