This show is funny. Not because Griffiths is a comedian (he is but this is not really stand-up), and not because his strange but true story is actually funny. But one has to laugh or cry at the story he tells.

He wore a T-shirt saying CNUT and French Connection (FCUK) pursued him via international lawyers – all anagrams of expletives are theirs apparently.

Laugh at preposterous hypocrisy evident in spades – turns out they’re guilty of nicking logos from a whole range of household names (Mars, Ford, Durex, Nike, 20th Century Fox…). Cry at their attempt to silence him with corporate heavies his own one sale (to a friend for a tenner) couldn’t pay for.

Laugh again because they failed – and then at the High Court’s ruling agreeing with Griffiths’s case that CNUT was referencing King Canute. (This is handy: King Cnut Griffiths now professes to be ‘rolling back the corporate tide’ on his badges and T-shirts.)

Anyone who has given up a fight at the frustrating hurdle of endless recorded messages will have admiration for Griffiths’s stamina. He got through, as proven by his exclusive collection of T-shirts, all withdrawn from sale, costing French Connection large.

Do watch on YouTube.