The parade of oddballs, foreign news presenters, folk singers and cockney eco-warriors whizzed past like the conveyor-belt prizes on The Generation Game.
As a bonus, presenters of foreign groups benefit from a built-in audience: ethnic groups that live in the area.
Vestey's disdain for inadequate superiors was palpable, but to his peers - whose praise the genuine journalist values more highly than that of bosses - he was a masterly reporter, foreign correspondent and current affairs presenter with an elegant turn of phrase and a convincing, resonant, unmannered delivery.
At the top of David Miliband's hour on the Jeremy Vine show, the presenter stressed that the foreign secretary's Radio 2 appearance had been arranged long before he became Gordon Brown's least favourite Guardian columnist.
The shadow foreign secretary, Emily Thornberry, has accused a Sky News presenter of sexism after she failed to name the French foreign minister and the South Korean president following repeated questions.
Stewart was brought onto the set of El Bernameg (The Programme) wearing a black hood and introduced by presenter Bassem Youssef as a captured foreign spy.
Emily Thornberry, shadow foreign secretary and shadow Brexit secretary, said "some Sky presenters need to look at themselves" when it comes to sexism, after she failed to name specific politicians when put on the spot by Sky News presenter Dermot Murnaghan on Sunday.
This was made clear in August, when morning news presenter Joe Scarborough claimed Trump had interrupted a foreign policy briefing to ask why America couldn't use nuclear weapons.
And, of course, it bears no resemblance to the cash worth of TV presenters, quiz show hosts, sports commentators or indefatigable foreign correspondents.
The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. on Monday is expected to announce those presenters and others for the ceremony, which will be held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills and broadcast on NBC.
