Jack Whitehall has a rare talent: making you laugh while gently reminding you he went to a very nice school. Whether he’s roasting his own privilege, his love life, or the sheer awkwardness of being British, his jokes hit that sweet spot between posh and painfully relatable. Here are eight Jack Whitehall jokes that show exactly why self-deprecation has never sounded so well-spoken.

“I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say ‘bought’, I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.”

“If I’m with someone that complains in a restaurant, I die inside. ‘Don’t say anything. Don’t make a scene. Just eat the nut, all right? We have an EpiPen at home. We will deal with it later.’”

[On The Voice] “These are the people who pluck your from obscurity and catapult you into anonymity.”

“I enjoy staring intensely at strangers whilst I eat bananas. Added frisson that I might get lucky … or punched.”

[On technology] “I wait for my mum to buy a new bit of machinery for their house, and then I tell my 76-year-old dad that said piece of machinery is voice-activated. You have not known true joy until you have seen a 76-year-old man tell an electric blanket to go f*** itself.”

“I’ve never laughed a woman into bed, but I’ve laughed one out of bed many times.”

“I find adverts at the moment particularly annoying, like the banking adverts because they’re trying to portray bankers as nice people… you walk up to the till, it’s like ‘ooh, how was your holiday?’ I went camping. ‘Ooh, why did you go camping?’ Because you lost all of my money.”

“I did a bit of charity work once on my gap year. I went and did a bit of volunteer work in a special needs school for children. Just playing games with them, football, tennis. And it does genuinely make you feel really good inside… because you always win.”