I try not to binge-watch TV shows, but I think I’m going to have to fight to resist gorging on Aziz Ansari's Master of None. The first episode of the new 10-part Netflix series pretty much ticks all the right boxes. It is sharp, relevant, adult, silly and, most importantly, very funny.

Ansari, a great stand-up and very good as Tom Haverford in Parks & Recreation, plays Dev, an aspiring New York actor. His biggest role to date is in a yoghurt commercial but he has high hopes. Meanwhile he is also trying to work out if it is the right time to settle down, have a family and basically grow up.

In the opening episode he finds himself looking after a friend’s small children. What should be a fun practice-for-parenthood hour soon turns into exhausting chaos. The daughter needs the toilet and can’t go alone, the son likes to rub his willy on supermarket food. As you do.

The show is written by Ansari and although the gags don’t fly thick and fast as they might in, say, Seinfeld or Curb Your Enthusiasm, there are plenty of laugh-out-loud moments. Dev endlessly shaking a plastic dinosaur in a toy shop (accompanied by his resolutely man-child mate, played by Eric Wareheim from sketch duo Tim and Eric) is a particular highlight.

Ansari is a very good actor and brings an amiable energy and nuance to the role. As has already been pointed out elsewhere, this is a series that both ignores race and tackles it. In the first episode there are very few references to Dev’s Asian family origins until a joke towards the conclusion when the children he has been looking after draw him with a brown face and he calls the picture “racist”.

Most of the time the tone is sweet and upbeat, but with a tougher underbelly. I was expecting something more terse, like Louis, but in a way this has more in common with C4’s Catastrophe. Whatever happens, whatever is said, at the end there is lots of heart here. You really want to see what happens next. So excuse me if I go and click on episode two…

Master of None is on Netflix.