yep… that’s me…
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The title of this thread reminds me of a story told by the great Peter Ustinov .
While touring in the United States, he visited a hick town somewhere in the South. The mayor made a welcoming speech in which he declared “The purpose of satire is to enable us to laugh at ourselves - while never forgetting our own true greatness!”
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Worth playing “spot the audience member”
good lord… within the first 3 minutes… Ted Heath… Joanna Lumley, Judy Dench…
Geoffrey Palmer…
what fun… so full of faces I remember from the past… and, yes, Petula Clarke !
I’ll let others chime in… 
As the demise of the great Stirling Moss may still be readily brought to mind, I recommend Ustinov’s pastiche “The Grand Prix of Gibraltar”.
Clearly based on the Monaco GP circa 1958, PU plays all the drivers [Girling Foss], managers [Senore Fanffani], commentators [Roland Thaxter] and sound effects [vroom! vroom! ] et al.
Wonderful racial stereotyping - the urbane Brits, the over-excited Italians, the expostulating, complaining French.
It’s on YT, of course. I haven’t listen to it since it was on 12" vinyl, so I hope the YT versions do it justice.