Yet real life takes over for the instantly likeable Lawn when the cameras and lights go off.
People recognise him, they think he is likeable and they don't think he is like other politicians.
Comic performance art was also in on the act, with Figs in Wigs taking an off-kilter look at female objectification in We Object, while in the charming but disturbing show Credible, Likeable Superstar Role Model, Bryony Kimmings and her nine year old niece Taylor, created an alterative aspirational pop star – complete with dance moves – to look at the sexualisation of tween girls.
The current top 40's only million-seller, this almost offensively likeable strings'n'singing bonanza has racked up 208m YouTube views in 12 months.
Only Sturgeon is apart from the pack, her reputation growing, even among English voters, who find her "strong" but also "likeable", although she emits an air of danger.
The real winner on O'Donnell's report card approach, though, is Nicola Sturgeon, who exudes competence, scores strongly on shared values (as long as you are a Scot), and who, having shaken off the earlier pejorative "nippy sweetie" tag of which David Torrance writes in his new biography, is nowadays is making a serious effort to come over as likeable.
The message in the opening show – which was a likeable mix of music, self-deprecating chat, interaction on social media, interviews, silly features and funny, often quite bitchy quips – was that the power here has shifted and lies squarely in the music.
Dunne isn't likeable (but then neither are any of the characters, including the male ones – not selfish Nick, not his misogynistic father, not his exploitative lawyer).
That said, perhaps the most impressive aspect of The King's Speech is how it managed to strike such a chord despite barely having a single likeable character in it.
First-time screenwriter Stephen Beresford and producer David Livingstone are nominated for their hit heartwarmer Pride, a wonderfully likeable retelling of the miners' strike of 1984, and how gay rights campaigners from London helped them.
Suzette, the hugely likeable cook, will make fantastic local meals for a modest charge, but otherwise guests share the huge kitchen and living room.
