If it was Francis Ford Coppola who first envisaged YouTube, it took another bearded visionary, Jeremy James Stuart Anthony May-Gibson-Beadle, to understand what the world would do with it.
Beadle’s output – television shows such as Game For A Laugh, Beadle’s About and, perhaps most perspicaciously of all, You’ve Been Framed – anticipated the very spirit of the Internet as we know it, bringing us cats, cock-ups and covert surveillance in analogue abundance.