Clearly they should just have a different Speaker every time. Like on Have I Got News For You? since they sacked Angus Deayton. Do you remember the one with Sir Trevor Mcdonald? Brilliant. Because we never saw it coming, did we? We all thought, well, they just need to find the right man, somebody with a suitable terse wit, and who isn’t going to appear on the front of the News of The World in the sort of grainy photographs that one now vaguely expects to show a young George Osborne. But no. Turned out you didn’t need a full-time frontman after all. Give them the jokes and a child could do it. Even Neil Kinnock.
So why not do the same with the great topical news quiz of SW1? A different celebrity every day. For some reason, the first one that springs to mind is Johnny Vegas. You know him? Comedian.
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