Could any other country have created John Shuttleworth but England? Do other countries have their equivalent?

I hope for their sakes they do because in front of a packed Corn Exchange on Sunday night, Graham Fellows’ alter ego was a wonderfully shambolic delight.

Picking the comedic nuggets out of the lives of middle-aged, long-wed, unadventurous couples, Shuttleworth could raise a laugh just with glamourless English place names; Spalding’s Bulb Museum, Keswick’s Pencil Museum and Ashby-de-la-Zouch’s Heavy Horse Museum.

Shuttleworth also eeked big laughs out of items that attempted to evoke a little bit of continental sophistication but ended up becoming a byword for naff; chalets, Cuban heels, Bounty bars.

The concept for this tour was feather-light, a misprinted poster meant that Shuttleworth had to tell the life of his agent and neighbour Ken Worthington who was reluctant to help out. But who needed clever concepts for comedy shows when the character acting was this good, the songs this catchy and the playing so hilariously error-strewn.

Highlights in the set included Late Arrangements For An Early Tea chronicling brilliantly how people can become set in their ways and the antonym of a Friday night party classic Here Comes Midweek while old classics such as Eggs And Gammon, Austin Ambassador Y-Reg and the haunting I Can’t Go Back to Savoury Now inspired sing-a-longs in the audience.