No one was particularly crying out for Matt Lucas to be the new co-host of The Great British Bake Off.
Eleven years in, The Great British Bake Off is crying out for it.
But Fielding fit Bake Off like a perfectly sized pie crust, diluting his Mighty Boosh oddness until it better resembled sweet, loudly-outfitted compassion.
If recent series of Bake Off have taught us anything, though, it’s that it needed a shot in the arm. There was a time when Bake Off was comfortable being incredibly, brilliantly dull.