I’m delighted that Channel 4’s Big Fat Quiz End of the Year has brought such a strong reaction from folks who, like me, found much of the material distasteful.

I find it difficult to enjoy anything with Jonathan Ross at the best of times. And these days even the sometimes brilliant James Corden – writer of Gavin and Stacey and star of stage’s Man With two Governors – has begun to grate with his matey-blokey humour.

The End of the Year Quiz, however, went beyond the pale with its jokes regarding the sex life of President Obama, The Queen and Prince Philip and entertainer Susan Boyle.

The fact the show was recorded and seen by Channel 4 editors before being allowed to go out, underscores how far TV has lost the plot.

Much of the content was misogynistic, making women the brunt of some extremely distasteful humour.

It is a long step, I appreciate, from such nudge-nudge drunken crudity to the appalling state of affairs in India, Pakistan and Afghanistan where women are beaten, raped and killed with the nodding acceptance of sections of their societies. But it is only a step.