Matt Taverner

Matt Taverner works at Perfect Curve, the outside consultancy the BBC pays a fortune to tell it what it already half-knows. Sleek, breezily confident, and never short of a buzzword, he glides through meetings offering solutions that sound decisive and mean almost nothing, entirely convinced of his own usefulness.

The joke is in the fluency: Daniel Ings delivers total nonsense with the smooth, unhurried certainty of a man who has never once doubted himself, which makes the emptiness funnier than any punchline would. He's a precise little portrait of corporate jargon mistaken for insight.