Funnies
Laughter is the best medicine and our regular round-up of press and media funnies aims to put a smile on the most downcast of faces.
From amusingly misspelt headlines to double-entendres of the first degree, we want to feature them on this page.
We used to round them up into collections of ‘Friday Funnies’ and these can still be viewed here, but we will now be publishing them individually both here and on the site homepage.
If you spot one, tell us about it at editor.htfp@and.co.uk.
February 6, 2012
From Red Ed to Dead Ed
Political reporters who clicked onto the Doncaster Free Press website on Friday might have been alarmed to spot this previously unreported piece of breaking news….
February 3, 2012
Sexed-up intro in Rugby
At first sight this looked like either a typo or an indication of a degree of, er, confusion amongst the female population of Rugby….
January 30, 2012
Not such a mystery after all, then
The Belper News excelled itself in the funnies’ stakes with its launch of a new ‘mystery photograph’ feature designed to test readers’ knowledge of their…
January 24, 2012
A plane-speaking headline from Peterborough
With today’s crowded skies, you might think at first glance that this headline from the Peterborough Evening Telegraph website was a bit of a case…
January 17, 2012
Cruise tragedy sinks dream holiday promo
It’s hard not to sympathise with the Belfast Telegraph on this one given that it would have been difficult not to put the picture of…
January 13, 2012
Polish-language weekly loses nothing in translation
Does the UK’s Polish community have a stronger stomach for Anglo-Saxon slang than the rest of the populace – or was it just a gaffe?…
January 11, 2012
Paper forgets its address as subbing curse strikes
If sod’s law dictates that stories about media gaffes invariably contain mistakes, then maybe it’s also the case that stories about subbing invariably contain subbing…
December 5, 2011
Midlands weekly apologises over front page howler
‘Curse of Stratford’ strikes again
November 10, 2011
Knockout blow for Hong Kong daily
Most of the newspaper obituaries of boxer Joe Frazier following his death from liver cancer this week agreed that he spent his life in…
November 8, 2011
Home secretary droning on
Moving a bit further afield than usual, here’s one from the Hurriyet Daily News, the English-speaking national daily of Turkey. Home secretary Theresa May…
November 2, 2011
Not quite on the ball
The East Midlands MEP Emma McClarkin may indeed have been on the ball in her comments about scrapping relegation from the Premiership – but…
October 31, 2011
Headlinefail in Tonyrefail
We doubt if the organisers of an ‘It’s a knockout’ style fun-day in the South Wales Valleys would have been too pleased with this…
October 25, 2011
Attic attack at Lancashire weekly
We have to confess to being mightily confused by this headline from the Clitheroe Advertiser and Times, until we realised they meant attic of Mitton…
