[Spencer]

Paxo was certainly good back in the day. However, it was later rumoured that the 14 requests of "did you threaten to overrule him?" was actually because the next VT or DTL wasn't ready, so he was spinning it out in a rather delicious way for the amusement of the audience. 

Rather like when Paxo was forced to read the weather forecast for a while and just turned it into a joke such as "it's raining somewhere tomorrow, take an umbrella".

I always thought Paxman was a tiresome, egotistical arse with an overinflated sense of his own importance and misplaced air of superiority.