Rory Bremner

Bremner’s Tony Blair in Bremner, Bird and Fortune is a useful starting point for an impression built around the rhythm of public persuasion. The pauses and carefully divided phrases matter as much as the vocal resemblance, giving a satirical script the shape of a recognisable political performance. Watch how the delivery changes the apparent weight of an ordinary sentence. The attraction is the observation of a public style, with the programme’s invented words and situations kept distinct from anything Blair actually said or did.