Well, this new topical comedy was certainly written up to the wire by Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin. Gags about Muhammed Ali, Mick Hucknall, Sports Direct, Harry Potter, John Major and Clinton getting the Presidential nomination confirmed that. And a topical story also gave Tory mandarin Jack Dee his best line: “Better go and stick my head in Noel Edmonds’ magic box.”

But maybe I could see the join and maybe some bits were a bit more pre-prepared than others. With the scene switching rapidly from Trump’s campaign plane, a Leave battle bus filled with wrinklies and a Moscow office and elsewhere it had the feeling at times of a string of sketches strung together.

But if the script was a bit lacking in real bite at times there was no faulting the quality cast. As well as the aforementioned Dee, moonlighting from his own referendum help desk, there was Claire Skinner, Kevin McNally, Andy Nyman, Ben Willbond, Amelia Bullmore and Archie Panjabi all doing their bit.

Andy Hamilton and Guy Jenkin have done this written-on-the-hoof thing before with Drop The Dead Donkey and more recently with Ballot Monkeys. By comparison Power Monkeys was a bit patchy. Inevitably not as sharp as The Thick of It or even good old Spitting Image, but it did have its moments. A second Noel Edmonds gag towards the end was pushing it a bit, but, let’s face it, Edmonds is a sitting duck of an open goal, it’s no surprise they milked it.

Power Monkeys, Wednesdays, 10pm, C4.