Under a more Stalinist political system, James Corden and Ruth Jones, the show's writers, would be diverted from their respective roles in One Man, Two Guvnors on Broadway and Stella on Sky One and locked in an office at the Ministry of Culture until they delivered series four.
Meanwhile, the National produced one of its biggest, most buoyant and popular comedies in Richard Bean's One Man, Two Guvnors and one of its most incisive and disturbing dramas in London Road, which brought together the terrific talents of composer Adam Cork and documentarist Alecky Blythe.
The show's chaos, irreverence and broad wit would be a natural fit for Corden, whose equally madcap turn in One Man, Two Guvnors remains one of his most beloved roles.
But, just occasionally, it happens that a spate of self-indulgent ad-libbing during a 2011 National Theatre production of One Man, Two Guvnors embodies, in one sentence, so much of the misunderstanding, nay prejudice, that surrounds this month's topic: hummus.
Among his successful adaptations, the most recent is One Man, Two Guvnors, based on Goldoni's The Servant of Two Masters.
Several of the projects programmed by Hytner, including War Horse and One Man, Two Guvnors, went on to significant success in the West End and abroad.
Hurrah that the chap who brought us One Man, Two Guvnors now puts on a play in which three women bring a farce scene to raucous, unbridled life.
"I first heard about Giffords when I was working on One Man, Two Guvnors and I went along and was very impressed.
He played the lead in One Man, Two Guvnors in the West End and on Broadway, and he has published his autobiography.
(Who'd have thought, for instance, that One Man, Two Guvnors would have been so successful? On paper, it was just an update of a creaky 18th-century Italian farce).
