The Government has confirmed that April Fools’ day will be postponed until June for the second year running, as the current climate made it ‘entirely inappropriate’ for the media to run fake stories on left-handed hamburgers, slow-running radios and digital Big Bens.
Posted: Apr 1st, 2011
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Joke tellers across Britain are in crisis today as Patrick ‘Paddy’ O’Shaughnessy, the protagonist in thousands of inept Irishman jokes and one-third of comedy trio ‘an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman’, sensationally announced that he is quitting the jokes business.
Posted: Jun 30th, 2010
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The flow of email jokes into Europe has been reduced to a trickle following the ongoing dispute between Russia, the world’s biggest producer of online humour, and the Ukraine, a major transit hub in the email joke network.
Posted: Jan 11th, 2009
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