IF you're eighty "with the sex drive of a bonobo" chimp, don't worry, because comedian Russell Kane is coming to a venue near you, and he might be able to assist you.

Malvern Forum Theatre will host his "Right Man Wrong Age" show on Saturday, May 14.

Russell is pondering on mysteries of the human condition, and he will share his deep conclusions with a Worcestershire audience.

He said: "Are you 16 years old, yet feel 21? Are you 40, but tragically faking 25? Or maybe you’re full-on 80 years, with the heart of three oxen and the sex drive of a bonobo chimp?

"Don’t worry: this is normal. No one is ever the ‘right’ age - it's is the beauty and the curse of being a real person."

Russell also has the answer, he says, as to why "farts will always be funny".

But Russell is a changed man, for all that.

For his Right Man, Wrong Age show, expect to encounter someone with a new look, fresh perspectives and a different approach to his comedy.

He said: "In the last year I’ve been married and had a baby. I’ve changed my hair, I’ve changed my look, I’ve thrown all my eyeliner in the bin. I literally went to my wardrobe one day and got all my ridiculous clothes and took them to the Sue Ryder shop for some other man having a midlife crisis then bought the four exact same suits in different colours from Topman. Then I got my hair as flat as it can go and I thought, ‘that’s it: this is me now’.”

In the world of stand-up, acts are continually expected to evolve and grow and turn over a significant amount of material every one or two years. For some this burden might prove too much, but for Russell this is a challenge he relishes.

He said: “I’ll keep changing, and I don’t really ever want to stand still. I don’t care if it confuses people about where I’m coming from. I’m protean; I don’t want to be recognisable in five years’ time; that’s what keeps my writing going. One day I’m learning Spanish, the next I’m learning survivalism. I might do my maths GCSE next week: who knows?”

For now, though, Russell is focused "on making Right Man, Wrong Age the best show it can possibly be".

His topic this time around is how we never quite feel the life-stage that we’re in and the age that we’re at, whether we’re 80 or 18.

He said: “When you’re 18, you look in the mirror and think ‘I know what I want to do, so why am I trapped in this 18-year-old body?’ while the 80-year-old is still waltzing and dancing around in her head.

"That’s going to be my jumping off point and from there I’ll do lots of accessible observations as well as the odd thinky bit."

But let's not get too serious here.

Russell says: "I don’t want to disappear up my own bum with this show, I just want to go on in my suit, like Michael McIntyre or Peter Kay, and just be funny and have lots of big laughs. My only job in life is to be funny.”

Inevitably, his new fatherhood status will have to be addressed in his show. As ever with Russell, he’ll work hard to avoid "easy clichés and tired stereotypes" as he tackles a subject that has been raised on many a stage by several generations of comedians.

Russell said: "It’s so hack to talk about having babies that I need to find another way in. Coming at it from a male point of view, you need to find a way in. I’ve never heard a man talk about caesarean section, so that might be the way to go.”

He's a man who constantly wants to stretch himself, both physically and intellectually: whether it’s going on to Radio 4’s Saturday Review alongside AS Byatt to discuss the new Julian Barnes novel or writing his own next literary work.

In 2012, two years after he won the Edinburgh Comedy Award, Russell published "The Humorist", the tale of a tormented comedy critic who discovers the secret blueprint for humour.

Local audiences can find out if Russell himself has that secret blueprint by phoning for tickets, on 01684 892277.