WALLIAMS AND FRIEND, BBC1, 9.30pm

I WAS lukewarm about this sketch show last week, but there’s a definite improvement tonight as Walliams’s “friend” and comedy partner this evening is Harry Enfield.

In a silver wig and a nice pink dress, Harry Enfield plays the Queen who’s amazed to learn she’s descended from Queen Victoria in Who Does One Think One Is? “Who’d have thought it? Little old one related to royalty?” Walliams awkwardly explains who Victoria was and the Queen enquires, “Was she named after the pub in EastEnders?” No? “Ah. One sees….”

The pair also do a great sketch mocking Torode and Wallace from Masterchef.

It makes for a vastly superior show, but maybe also a tiny bit of embarrassment for Walliams as he’s totally outclassed by Enfield. If only we could have Harry back every week. However, I’ve peeked ahead to the third episode and it has someone equally as talented.

PROMISES AND LIES: THE STORY OF UB40, BBC4, 10pm

JOHNNY Rotten got it in the neck when he began advertising butter and UB40 were similarly mocked when they endorsed Jeremy Corbyn recently.

Whilst Corbyn and butter are only similar in that you can exclaim: “I can’t believe it’s not Michael Foot!”, the lesson is obvious: only musical geniuses can afford to flog butter or praise politicians. Everyone else, when they do it, becomes fair game.

But before UB40’s unwise endorsement of Corbyn – in fact, quite a long time before it – they were a fine pop/reggae band and this documentary takes us back to those good old days.

They’ve sold 70 million records and there’s not a person in the country who doesn’t know Red, Red Wine, but despite this massive success the band have suffered nasty disputes and even poverty.

Nowadays, the band still tour but they do it as two separate groups.