Can't believe I forgot Ian Dury even his song titles "There Ain't Half Been Some Clever Bastards" and "Spasticus Autisticus" were clever and Witty like Noel Coward who inspired that "Bastards" ditty. Ray Davies of The Kinks sort of links them both and I think It is quite possible to see Albarn & Skinner in that same British vaudevillian tradition, a thesis on which I have often thought of basing a book on.