Did you see it? If not, ignore this review. I didn’t take the performers’ names: there were loads of them. This is more like a TV clip show, where everyone who remembers the moment in question feels like they belong, and everyone who doesn’t, doesn’t. So piss off, dickhead.

I think all those present would agree on two things. One, it’s lovely to see some new faces. And two, it’s lovely that they’re actually funny. One brief rendering of War and Peace – delivered by a cross between Stephen Fry, Alan Davies, and the BFG – was at once whimsier and better than most of the comedy churned out on such a laugh-destroying basis.

Another novelty was the scarcity of sketches. This was often a blessing: another hilarious pun on Charles Dick-ens’ name, another minute of ‘Ombudsman – the Superhero story’, and I think I would have been trying to shit myself in search of less awkward, more sophisticated entertainment.

Such a dearth of sketchery did at least mean that we got a lot of stand-up: good stand-up, too. Ahir Shah gave his full name, was very funny about it, and started proceedings off with real urbanity and flair. Subsequent jokes comparing pantomime audiences to Jesus’ disciples, celebrating the confusing possibilities of the phrase ‘Nacho cheese’, and a song containing the sublime rhyme “plankton / wanked on”, all deserve to make their creators globally famous.

Fortunately for us, tonight’s mixed bag was of a frequently high standard, even if the booze wore off and the quality mysteriously wavered in the final third. My personal favourites were a sketch recasting The Four Yorkshiremen as gap year tragedies, a charmingly neurotic chap called Henry, the aforementioned BFG, and the show-stealer who advertised himself, through song, to all the chubby chasers out there. If you weren’t there, you won’t know what any of this means, and I don’t really care. I haven’t included names because I’m not really a journalist. But it’s OK: I guarantee you’ll be hearing quite a lot about quite a lot of them for some time to come. And then you can pretend you were there when it all started.