Monday night’s episode of The Trip was the best yet.

From the moment Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon took their seats in the window of the Holbeck Ghyll country house hotel I was in hysterics.

Brydon stole the show with his soft-vowelled Alan Bennet impression and harranging of Coogan’s poor wine etiquette.

It was also nice to see the perpetually morose Coogan stiffling a few giggles when their improvisation clearly went awry.

But the real highlight was their hilarious sketch about an elderly gentleman called ‘Holbeck Ghyll’, and for the hotel’s owners there can’t have been a more ringing endorsement for the business than that.

It had to happen at some point, but it was another stroke of luck for the hotel to have Coogan stand in their garden and let out a rip-roaring ‘Ah-ha’ – a crowd-pleasing nod to his legendary series Alan Partridge.