"He's quite egotistical. Rupert Lowe would be my preference. He's been hard at work, asking questions in Parliament. Nigel isn't around as much."

After the talks collapsed on Wednesday night, the chancellor delivered a scathing attack on his finance minister, calling Lindner egotistical and irresponsible for his unwillingness to compromise for the good of the country.

It managed to marry different strands of alternative rock without any musical, egotistical or other discord.

But his career as a humorous cad took off in 1980 when he landed the part of the “sexist, egotistical, lying, hypocritical bigot” Franklin Hart Jr. in Colin Higgins’ radical feminist comedy, “9 to 5.”

He’s also the boy band idol who falls for Anne Hathaway’s divorced art gallery owner in “The Idea of You” and the psychotic egotistical football star in “Bottoms.”