If the Club Sandwich scene at the Norwood club on Sunday did not quite attain the heights (or depths) of fashion typical of the Paris original, it surely came close.
Few of these entertainers will attain the heights reached by stars of the genre like the late Steve Bridges, who performed as George W. Bush at the 2006 White House Correspondents Dinnerr, standing beside the real Dubya.
Even his standup persona, which plays heavily on his privileged background and his inability to attain the heights of his former fellow pupils at the Harrodian School and Marlborough College: his fury at the ongoing Hollywood success of Twilight star Robert Pattinson, his mother's disappointment that he failed to marry Kate Middleton.
The family, which sought the enactment of such constitutional reforms as the abolition of the liberum veto, attained the height of its influence in the mid-18th century in the court of Augustus III.
If the heel touched the ground before the required angle was attained, the height of the step was adjusted.
She had attained the heights of a successful career, but never lost the ability to be a generous and compassionate person.
In her introduction she argued that traditional Arab forms of verse inhibited Arabic poetry from attaining the heights of other world literatures.
Each contained similar elements of buried evidence, an establishment cover-up and sinister plots, but sales never quite attained the heights of the first collaboration.
One reason "Norma" attains the heights it does -- beyond the enduring relevance of its story about a male partner seeking to run off with a younger woman -- is that it has such a huge, complex, difficult title role.
Following on general Neoplatonic intuitions, this means that when one has attained the heights of truth and goodness, one will have reverted to one's truest life, a pure state of soul which transcends mortal life we might describe it as a kind of immortality while in the mortal body.
Oman found Warwick a traditional strategist, "not attaining the heights of military genius displayed by his pupil Edward".
