WHEREVER you stand politically, this is a great time for political comedy.

So it’s no wonder that Rory Bremner, the UK’s most famous impressionist, has decided to tour a new show for the first time since 2010.

The satirist, whose television shows Bremner, Bird and Fortune, Rory Bremner... Who Else? and The Rory Bremner Show have won four Baftas, says that Brexit and Donald Trump’s Presidential election make for interesting times.

“You wake to find Trump in the White House, Nigel Farage being talked about as a UK ambassador and Boris Johnson as Foreign Secretary. Maybe we should just not go to sleep,” he says, laughing. “Bad things happen at night!”

The new show, Partly Political, was prompted by a sell out run of Rory Bremner Meets..., an hour of comedy and conversation, at the Edinburgh Fringe last year. “The first half is me doing stand-up,” he says, “and the second half is more free-form, with a political guest I’ll interview, and possibly a Q&A.

Rory, who describes himself as a “stand-up chameleon”, will be introducing new characters on tour. Trump and Farage, but also Louis Walsh and Jeremy Corbyn.

I ask if Trump’s election – in that he is male, rather than the female Clinton – came as some relief in impersonation terms, and Rory laughs at the idea. “He’s a bit of a mixed blessing, isn’t he? On one hand he is this big character who says all these things that make you seriously fear for what will happen, but on the other hand the comedian in me says there’s four years of mileage in him. It’s almost as if satire is redundant – politicians are doing my job for me!

See Rory at Nuffield Southampton Theatres on Friday. Tickets: 023 8067 1771 or nstheatres.co.uk