Don’t worry, Jonah, you didn’t miss anything – unless you consider a questioner in a snowman suit, and another demanding each candidate say something nice and something mean about the candidate on his left, and another singing his question as some sort of hip-hop-techno-gangsta-whatever video is the acme of cool. (Okay, I realize a snowman is, at one level, totally cool, but you know what I mean.)

Insofar as I caught his lyric, the singer was demanding that the candidates “stop the lies”, but the problem isn’t that the candidates “lie”, it’s that their handlers devise formats explicitly designed to prevent any real Jonah-at-the-Oxford-Union debate between the participants. What’s the point of singing your question in a snowman suit if the answer it elicits is just the usual Hillary boilerplate about how she doesn’t like the label “liberal” and prefers to be called a “progressive”? What did Anderson Cooper think would happen? That Hillary would say she rejects the label “Frosty” and prefers to be thought of as “Santa”?

The only moment that was unintentionally revealing was when John Edwards was asked to say something negative about Mrs Clinton and remarked that he wasn’t sure about her coat. Ooooooo! Saucer of milk for Senator Edwards!

For a light jest, it seemed oddly felt. Maybe that “coatless girl” he’s always boring on about in his stump speech is only going coatless because she’s terrified she’ll be pulled up on stage at an Edwards rally.