The director, who had been scouting some mountains for his upcoming movie, wore a soiled safari jacket and smelled of sweat.

A single-breasted safari jacket with short or long sleeves and patch pockets — often worn with matching pants — it was initially made popular in the 1960s by Kenneth Kaunda, the first post-colonial president of Zambia.

This has made the Kaunda suit - a safari jacket with matching trousers - popular with the political class.

Lehrer didn’t do anchor things — no standing in the face of a hurricane with a microphone or popping up at the scene of some international disaster in a safari jacket.

In one episode, wearing an expensive-looking brown suede safari jacket with big collar, and clutching his oversize glasses in his hands, he introduces the studio audience to Jonathan Miller.