The Treason Show proves you can make fun of absolutely everything, even broadcast execution.

It’s easy to sing ‘there’s a hole in my seafront’ and hardly any effort to send up Portslade, but a light touch with Isis is much more difficult.

The usual suspects, Sophia Behn, Daniel Beales, James Petherick and Mark Brailsford, pull it all off with tremendous enthusiasm and mostly they succeed, excruciating puns are obviously contagious, just as their own pleasure in performance before the packed house for ‘That was the Year That Was 2014’.

Brilliantly funny were the burlesque numbers for a drag Angela Merkel doing it her way and a plastic-suited quartet carolling Ebola from Sierra Leone.

Running gags featured Cliff Richard and a frantic Sky Sports news team reporting the non-events of Pistorius’ trial.

By now, Brighton audiences know that certain coconuts are familiar targets just as we know that at some point, director Mark Brailsford will get his kit off.

Not all the nuts hit home but gag-a-minute style guarantees that the odd duff shot will be followed by a knock-out very quickly. It’s fast, funny, terrific fun and all down to the clever keyboard playing of Joe Samuel.