"Yeah you were great! Just great!"

Imagine having kids. If you already have kids, imagine different kids, your kids won't come off well in this imagining. So anyway, these kids of yours are in a play (it happens!) and, whaddya know, they're absolutely tits-up schlock-porn b-rate awful. But what do you say? "Look kids, if you want to know why we left, it was because you were shit." No. You lie. Which is fine. Because A. God doesn't exist. and B. If you didn't lie your kids would most likely end up emotionally scarred for life.

So it's a good idea to lie to kids to make them feel better about themselves. That's a given. Which makes it a molecule easier to understand why e4's school of comedy has managed to scrape its way past a pilot.

I understand that sketch shows have to be fairly hit and miss, and in this one the writing is actually fairly decent. The main thing that lets it down are the kids. Kids pretending to be adults. Very badly. Often with glaringly false moustaches (is this meant to make it funnier?) and very little actual acting (is this for comic effect? is this actually a show about why you shouldn't cast kids? have I missed the point?). Yes all those comedy writers slaving away to have their ideas published are pipped at the post by downright failure-to-act syndrome, common in all children minus the odd one or two who are swept up into hollywood. The reality of it is: The good actors get famous. They leave behind their shitty starting programs and strut across the pond to get a better position from which they can laugh at their failing, emotionally barren ex-colleagues.

But shhh! Don't tell the little ones, eh?