The impression you’re no longer allowed to do.

Is probably the first one you ever attempted. “Now then, now then..Howzabout that then, guys and gals….” And then we all discovered that the man we simply found “a bit creepy” was, all along, a dangerous and predatory psychopath. I went to the Park Theatre to see An Audience With Jimmy Savile, starring Alastair McGowan in the title role. It’s quite disturbing, partly because McGowan’s impression of Savile is so brilliant. But what you’ll find most extraordinary is the fact he’s doing it at all. Because the moment those revelations came to light, doing an impression of their perpetrator became strictly taboo. Though if nobody’s watching and you’d like to return to more innocent times, just adopt a Leeds accent, waggle an imaginary cigar and say the name of this band.