“We’re not heading for Germany, it’s much worse than that. We’re heading for Brighton” the duo conversed as they ‘parachuted’ on to the stage in character as Second World War pilots, 17 years to the day since their first ever gig.

Currently on tour, the busy pair are also shooting a second series of their hit TV show and promoting the recently released The Armstrong and Miller book.

Packed with familiar sketches from the series, each character was distinct and well-rounded, with unique hang-ups which usually involved sexual connotations. There was Pete and Rog, the gullible husband, the inappropriate dentist who informs “my little finger is sore as one of our nanny goats has got a tumour in its anus”, and Brabbins and Fyffe who got the audience singing along to songs about private parts.

In Boudoir d’Amour and Pru and Miranda, the pair demonstrated a penchant for playing naughty middle-aged women.

Characterisations were delivered with great energy and enthusiasm by the Cambridge graduates who were warmly received by the packed, older, mainly middle-class audience, some of whom were regularly in hysterics.

Although it was impossible to recreate the sophistication of TV to intensify the characters, the bonus of audience interaction thrilled fans who could get up close.

The night finished with the musically gifted pair performing a song on guitar and piano about being ‘meant for each other” and they included the audience who sang happily from screened lyrics which included: “Let’s all get together but not in a sexual way.”