You missed a few things off my CV, Ruth Davidson quipped.
She had just been introduced by the chairman of the press gallery at a lunch with journalists.
Yes, you mentioned I previously worked at the BBC.
But you neglected to note how I “single-handedly saved the British banking system from the Barings collapse”.
Nor did you remark on my success in piloting Apollo 13 back down to earth.
And a “little known fact” is that I was Misha the Bear at the 1980 Moscow Olympics, which was incidentally the same year I won Eurovision.
The gags came one after the other with Andrea Leadsom – accused during the leadership campaign of massaging her CV – the primary victim of the Scottish Tory leader’s stand-up routine.
“I didn’t say that, you can’t report that,” she concluded, mocking the energy minister’s outraged response after it was reported she had claimed being a mother would make her a better PM.
“It would be ‘gutter journalism’ of the highest order if you wrote down exactly what I just said,” continued Ruth.
On a roll, it was now Labour’s turn.
Isn’t the “really mad thing”, she asked, that after all the resignations in recent days and weeks, Jeremy Corbyn is the “the last man standing”?
“Although I am pleased to hear that the parliamentary Labour party is about to show how united they are by launching a possible second unity candidate against the first.”