“Hey James, nice to see you too,” Mark joked. “No, I had a great day yesterday. No, I'd never want to force my best friend to listen to how my day's going, but thanks for the offer.”
Playwright Simon Stephens, who adapted Mark Haddon's best-selling novel, joked on stage: "It's a remarkable thing to win an award for popularity - normally people leave my plays in a state of terror!"
As Mark Carney - our soon-to-be Bank of England governor - joked at the traditional session on the global economy on the final day, he arrived on Thursday to find people saying the "tail risk" in the global financial system had been reduced.