Sure, but humor and satire are the gods we follow? I can't remember laughing at Manuel. For me, every guest was the "girl". It's also important that the children are the professor's kids. The position of having to choose one's loyalty is just as important as a man trying to get to an important meeting, slipping on a banana peel.

Fawlty Towers would not have worked without the wife. I would LOVE to read a piece where you analyze Fawlty Towers. Comedy? Harrumph. Let's talk Graham Linehan! Or Jesse Armstrong's transition from Peep Show to Succession. Ryan Long? C'mon Penguin.

How could Armando Iannucci nail it with Veep and fail so badly with Avenue 5?

I want the Penguin take on the real stuff!