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.
May 21, 2012
Portakabin Police strike at Midlands weekly
This paragraph in a list of recent planning applications may seem innocuous enough but it landed the editor in hot water with the police –…
May 8, 2012
Sports desk fixated with bottom line?
Arsenal Football Club has been the, er, butt of many jokes down the years on account of its name, but it’s rare that one actually…
April 27, 2012
Where were you on Saturday night?
As young reporters we were always taught to scan the ad columns for good stories – but just what story lies behind this one from…
April 25, 2012
Chelsea 3, Barcelona 2, BBC 0
Some confusion over at BBC Sport it seems following the dramatic conclusion of Chelsea’s Champions League semi-final against Barcelona at the Nou Camp. For the…
April 13, 2012
Odd political double-act spotted in Crawley
Interesting picture-headline juxtaposition on a local election story from the Crawley News’ website, thisissussex.co.uk.
March 21, 2012
Bush trimmers’ gift to headline writer
Since this Northampton Chronicle and Echo headline is almost certainly deliberate, it technically doesn’t qualify as a media gaffe – but we thought it nevertheless…
March 19, 2012
‘Sad’ archbishop’s giveaway grin?
Archbishop of York Dr John Sentamu has been installed as the bookies’ favourite to replace his boss, Dr Rowan Williams, as Archbishop of Canterbury following…
March 14, 2012
All is revealed in weekly’s splash?
We’re not sure whether this front page bloomer from the Down Recorder was caused by a stray dog’s paw or a piece of protruding bed…
March 9, 2012
Not the usual suspects
Here’s a lovely front page headline/picture juxtaposition from the Ballyclare Gazette, in County Antrim. Well, it made us laugh!
February 27, 2012
Sussex weekly’s shop closure shock
We’ve had the Whitstable custard shortage…we’ve had the large plane spotted in the sky above Peterborough…now here’s some more hot news, this time from Haywards…
February 14, 2012
Symphony in grey for News readers
You have to feel slightly sorry for Worcester News photographer Paul Jackson over the paper’s use of his stunning picture of a sunset over…
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…
