AFICIONADOS of television comedy may well recall the excellent That Mitchell And Webb Look, which featured a recurring skit called “Big Talk”, in which scarily earnest presenter Raymond Terrific attempted to solve the world’s most pressing conundrums, aided by the ‘biggest bunch of eggheads and brainiacs that taxis can be sent to fetch’.

The eggheads would wax philosophical about important questions such as ‘are we alone in the universe’, while Terrific would demand instant answers, with catchphrases like “Let’s get this sorted, once and for all!”