Dining-in Night in the mid 70s, Staish was the World's worst after-dinner speaker. (At one such event he sat down having failed to mention the principal guest, who was replying!).
After twenty minutes of droning at the end of one of the tables we were getting a bit restless and noisy.
Staish pauses from his monologue and says loudly "Excuse me, can everybody hear me?"
Quick as a flash the young WRAF sitting opposite me responds in an equally loud voice "Well I can, sir, but I'd willingly swap places with someone who can't".
Brilliant!