Ihad to apologise to the man sitting next to me during the Comedy Club 4 Kids session at the Oxford Playhouse because I was howling so loudly. I wasn’t supposed to be laughing, the children were, I was just accompanying them. But as I looked around the audience I was relieved to see everyone enjoying themselves in equal measure.

The billing was largely responsible — there was a great line-up of up-and-coming comedians, nabbed off the circuit to perform for a much younger audience, meaning there is no dumbing down here. If anything, comics have to raise their game because small children are notoriously hard to please, and it had sold out.

The compere, CBBC’s Stu Goldsmith, was a delight, keeping us all amused and readying us for Ivor Graham’s hilarious quiz show set which involved getting four parents and their children onstage in a ‘Mr and Mrs’ format.

It being Oxford, his idea was almost entirely sabotaged by the clichéd prowess of the guests. In Essex when he’d asked what their parents did, none of them knew.

In Oxford, the proud offspring could reel off exact job descriptions that future employers would delight in. A therapist, a scientist, an HSBC banker, who had to end-ure lots of jibes about Switzerland until his son piped up that he only works in Hong Kong — which brought the house down — and a sales and marketing manager.

More hilarity ensued as the parents listed their children’s favourite food and were always proved wrong, pizza always being the answer. But in terms of Ronnie Corbett-style Small Talk moments, the Oxford comedy pickings were lean.

Next up was The Three Half Pints, who brought the house down, a farcical Marx Brothers-style trio whose antics had us all collapsing in mirth, and was one of their favourite gigs ever, according to Twitter.

If you missed it, Comedy Club 4 Kids constantly circuits the country with a wide array of comedians, so you can catch it in numerous venues over the coming year.