Has Rory Bremner drawn the short straw by coming last in the post-Election post-mortems or has this given him an advantage? While others were completely blindsided by the result but had to respond quickly, the veteran impressionist has had almost a week to review and take in the poll’s ramifications and try to find the funny side.

The shock result, however, probably meant that he and his writers – who include familiar circuit comics Chris Coltrane and Andy Zaltzman – had to rip up some of their work done in advance and start virtually from scratch. Taking that into account some of this is pretty good. 

The trouble is that the best bits are not necessarily Bremner. Sara Pascoe’s monologue set in a launderette in which she plays a naive character talking about how she decided to vote is original and beautifully delivered. Matt Forde, last seen coaching Al Murray during his South Thanet campaign, is more conventional, but hits the spot with a piercing routine about the party leaders. Forde points out that Miliband apparently said in an interview before the vote that he would like to spend more time with his family. Well, he certainly got that wish… 

There are also some decent Yes, Minister-like sketches skewering policy, featuring old mucker John Bird, Tim Pigott-Smith and Faye Ripley. As for Bremner, some of his impressions are much, much better than others. Maybe its the blandness of the people he is impersonating, but without make-up it is sometimes hard to tell who he is doing in his trademark fast-paced and clearly well-researched monologues. By the way, props to whoever on the team spotted that the Conservative manifesto said more about polar bears than welfare.

Once he puts the wigs and slap on though it’s a different Tory, sorry, story. His Cameron is very good – which is lucky as he’s going to need it for another five years. But best of all is his Robert Peston, who doesn’t look much like the BBC correspondent but is deliciously madcap. And it is brave to take on Nick Robinson, whose distinctive croaky voice is probably the result of a recent operation to remove a tumour on his lung.

So if you haven’t had enough of the election fall-out Bremner does provide some useful perspective. This could have been more hard-hitting and often goes for fairly easy laughs, but let’s face it, it is difficult to make a satirical impact when politics is already frighteningly ridiculous in reality.

Watch on iPlayer here.