Yeah, then shout out the punchlines to his jokes before he gets to them
yeah, he'll love that, he's got a great sense of humour
Mock his inability to get a new BBC series
tell him he wants the moon on a stick. do it so much that it's annoying, then do it a lot more, that's the sort of thing he loves.
You appear to be grinning Pliny.
Ain't it beautiful?
Actually it's not, it's very disturbing, but I prefer to ask rhetorically whether it's beautiful or not.
Ain't the asking beautiful?
Beautiful as beauty can be. With exaggeration.