Eric Morecambe called the school’s investigation reports “a waste of time”.

Unearthed school reports reveal that comedian Eric Morecambe was described by his teachers as a “noisy and time waster”.

Reviews of his previous masters at Lancaster Road Junior School and Aston Road Senior School in Morecambe included criticism of the late entertainer’s attendance and “poor and haphazard written work”.

These reports were discovered in Morecambe’s study at the family home in Harpenden, Hertfordshire.

They are scheduled to be auctioned in January.

A 1936 report from Lancaster Road was returned with a message from Eric’s mother, Sadie Bartholomew, on the back.

It read: “I am disgusted with this report and if you will make him do more homework as I see he has done here, S. Bartholomew.”

His senior school report from 1940, when Eric was 14 and already running the boards, read: “A trier, but very irregular in written work.

“Also has a penchant for wasting time; cleanliness could be better; absent most of the time. Seems to be trying hard to improve.”

Other reports said that Morecambe – who became one of the country’s best-known comedians despite his partnership with Ernie Wise – was a “jolly man” and “a keen worker in school concerts, which I had a passion for entertaining in modern song and dance style.”

A Lancaster Road teacher remarked that Morecambe was “absent for most of his exams”.

In 1939 he was second in the class for geography, fifth in English and ninth in mathematics.

All the contents of the Morecambe family home are to be auctioned by auction house Hansons.