The US Election was only last week and it already feels as if everything has been said about an event that has turned the world upside down. Or, more importantly in this case, that every joke has been made about it. But you can always rely on Frankie Boyle to nudge the taboo barrier a little further, which he does magnificently at the end of this topical show, painting a portrait of a post-Trump apocalypse that makes Bosch’s pictures of hell seem positively benign.

Before then we get a very funny, if familiar, debate-meets-diatribe about what is going on in America at the moment in which Boyle is joined by a strong panel featuring Sara Pascoe, Katherine Ryan and special guests, American comedians Michelle Wolf and Desiree Burch, and token bloke Richard Osman (it is compulsory to have Osman as a guest these days).

Boyle puts three propositions to the panel and the audience - 1) that anybody in the room would be a better President 2) that America hates women and 3) that the US entertainment industry should be destroyed.  

While the answers are mainly on the predictable side it doesn’t stop the conversation from being entertaining as well as painfully funny. Boyle doesn’t hog the screen but does have some of the best one-liners, suggesting that Trump is not just worst President, he is “worst mammal”. Ryan is also very good although I’m not sure if it was pointed out that she is Canadian by birth – the audience may have thought she was worked up into a froth of anger because she was American and feeling guilty.

The toughest challenge for the programme-makers was probably coming up with clips that have not been shown to death over the last week. And part from the obligatory snatch of forgotten libertarian candidate Gary Johnson not knowing what Aleppo is they have done pretty well.

I’d not previously seen the TV prayer channel pointing to a Dave Gorman-style graph and claiming that they won it for Donald by praying or Mary J Blige serenading Hillary Clinton during a cringeworthy encounter that may have done Clinton more damage than good. There are also some lovely clips of guns and explosions for people who like that sort of thing.

Don’t, of course, watch American Autopsy for definitive answers. This was recorded shortly after the vote and I suspect the panel was as shellshocked as the rest of us by the result. But everyone is good value and I suppose I should mention that it’s excellent to have so many women on one show. But one final thought. I can't help thinking that when Frankie Boyle sounds like the voice of reason the world really has turned upside down. 

Available on iPlayer now here and on BBC2 at 10.50pm on Sunday November 20.