'huge, queer and tawdry' but 'much admired by the public'

That was an entertaining gag in its way, sure, but I think there's a limit to how well impressionism works as satire - and if you can get the real thing, that's usually going to work better. Hence my liking Entourage's cameo celebrity meltdowns much more than most spoofs of Hollywood, say.

Against which: When I first heard about Churchill, I assumed it was someone else nicking Peter Richardson's trick - I was definitely more interested once I heard it was actually him.