One of my favourite stand-up riffs is from American comedian John Mulaney. In his 2017 Netflix special, Mulaney offered a memorable take on the early days of Donald Trump’s first tenure in the White House, back when he was making excuses for neo-Nazis and threatening to blow Kim Jong-un into the sky.

Mulaney said: “This guy being president, it’s like there’s a horse loose in a hospital … It’s never happened before. No one knows what the horse is going to do next, least of all the horse.”