Peter Rhodes on intelligence, comedy and a strange man in your hotel room

But then what does IQ (intelligence quotient) actually tell us? I recall my father driving to Birmingham one day to sit the entrance test for the high-IQ society, Mensa. He passed with flying colours, only to find he'd left the car lights on, the battery was flat and he needed a recovery vehicle. Moral: while IQ is desirable, RAC is essential.

ITVX channel has posted content warnings on comedy skits starring such innocents as Ken Dodd, Kenneth Williams and Victoria Wood, causing one TV critic to denounce “a nation of prudes.” Or have we simply become middle-class? Telling jokes was always a working-class pastime. If you asked some of today's posh media bosses to tell you their favourite joke, I bet half of them wouldn't even have one. Making people laugh is now seen as something dangerous. It's no laughing matter.