It's not clever and it's not funny

“It’s not funny and not clever!” goes the prune-faced cry. I fear the humour by-pass of the drearily correct.

Now, you’re probably too busy failing something or other or just plum knackered to watch, so let me be your guide.

David Walliams’ Big School is tired, dire, dull and, crucially, unfunny. All a bit of a “Carry On”. Bunsen burners blow up, teachers are idiots, PE teachers are morons and pupils are ciphers. That area. We seem to be in my 1950s grammar school without the laughs.

Jack Whitehall’s Bad Education is infantile, filthy, woefully incorrect, quite indefensible – and often extremely amusing in the modern heartless fashion. A sort of Green Wing with cracking gags. Teachers are beyond idiots, pupils adult stand ups, it tells us nothing significant about education and it has me laughing like a drain, perhaps because it taps into that cruel schoolboy humour, which has nearly ruined me for life.