They listened enthralled as I explained that the entertainment industry - throughout the world - is run according to certain 'iron laws' that are as fixed as the stars in the sky, or indeed on the telly-box. These laws cannot - must not - be broken for fear of messing with formulae that have stood the test of time in throwing-up and sustaining in the firmament the great stellar array of entertainers we all know and love mostly.
"Write this down, Genius," I declared. "It's one for the blog, and may crop again in my memoirs.".
"The first law, the one on which many of the others relating to acts involving more than one person, rests on the simple but rigid requirement that where any such act shall be known by the members' names, those names ARE ALWAYS - INVARIABLY - IN ALPHABETICALISED ORDER."
Of course, the assembled throng gasped as they reeled through lists of such acts, racking their feeble brains, and unabled to come up with a single one of an example between them.
Next in the series: that Macbeth play, and the country which shall not be named in any theatre.
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