Everyman

But the most effective aspect of this monologue was Kimmel’s relatable everyman outrage.

The so-called Late Night Wars of 2010 that pitted NBC and Jay Leno against Conan O’Brien revealed yet another part late-night hosts are called on to play, that of the everyman’s stand-in.

Detectives quickly realised that behind the everyman image, Andrews Jr was the mastermind of a multi-million pound drug empire selling cocaine and heroin on an industrial scale.

“The tale of ‘Everyman’ was one in which a universal protagonist met with all of the challenges of life and a reckoning with himself and with God,” Hull says.

It’s a work of pageantry, inspired in part by Hull’s fascination with medieval morality plays, specifically the story of “Everyman,” an examination of self and of our relationship to a higher power.