Still, once people start saying you’re “cancelled”, it’s often a career boost. Controversy sells: look at Dave Chappelle’s multi-million-dollar Netflix deal. And this year, a Sheffield venue decided they’d rather not put on a show by Roy “Chubby” Brown, whose less-than-Wildean punchlines include “you P— bastard”. The result? More free publicity than Brown has had in years. You can now buy tickets to watch him at Manchester’s O2 Apollo.

In July, the Soho Theatre decided not to stage Chris McGlade’s show Happiness, following concerns over its allegedly anti-Semitic content. Within weeks, however, Happiness had found another London venue, the Backyard Comedy Club – which, it was announced yesterday, will also be the home to the pilot for a new “anti-woke” comedy show. Where will the show be broadcast? Why, on Radio 4, the same station that not only commissioned a full-blooded fiscal conservative, Simon Evans, to make a comedy show about market economics, but has renewed it for six seasons.

Last year, I asked Have I Got News for You producer Richard Wilson why stand-ups often seem to lean to the Left. “Because their audience is young. It’s as simple as that,” he said. “Typically, younger audiences tend to be more Left-wing, and comedians tend to play to younger audiences.”

So if Dame Maureen, 77, wants to change the shape of modern comedy, she could start by buying a few more tickets for gigs at the Frog and Bucket.