S**tcoms are beyond a joke

WE all know modern TV is powered by lies and chicanery. 

It asks us to believe that the muppets on The Apprentice are “Britain’s best business brains”.

That Silent Witness accurately reflects how forensic pathologists work.

And that Alan Carr and Amanda Holden are bosom buddies (his are bigger) who share the dream of doing up crap apartments in Sicily.

But British telly’s biggest fib is claiming we still make decent sitcoms.

Case in point: Everyone Else Burns, a C4 “comedy” with fewer laughs than Hunt’s spring Budget.