Very early on in my relationship with my wife, Carolyn, I learned two things: we both shared a love of live stand-up comedy, and if I ever shouted out again during any performance she would leave me.

It was fortunate, then, that when I went to see Matt Forde’s first gig in his latest tour, whimsically and knowingly entitled, “Hastily Re-written In Light Of Recent Events – Again!”, I was accompanied by a fellow Labour Party member instead. Because at the bit where Forde asks if anyone in the audience had voted Leave in 2016, I had no alternative but to respond, loudly, in the affirmative. No alternative because (a) I was sitting in the very front row of the comedy club, and (b) Matt had therefore...