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.
June 25, 2007
More headline howlers
We were reminded of these headlines actually appeared in newspapers recently – though not all in the regional press! Thanks to our contributor Sarah Elliott…
June 25, 2007
Women – can't live with them, can't live without them
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Women eh? Can’t live with them, can’t live without them. Not until…
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 130
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Then there’s their gullibility, not that such a trait is all bad….
June 25, 2007
Grand Stand Against Sport
Page 4 of 5 Let several tigers loose and see who manages a hole-in-one before being savaged. After all, extreme sports are very fashionable at…
June 25, 2007
Hand-wringing over Selby
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Remember when your child reached the age of two and you had…
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 134
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 My God! You would have thought that I’d committed a mortal sin….
June 25, 2007
Everything's dafter in Texas
Everything’s dafter in Texas by Graham Smith Freelance journalist Graham Smith, Managing Editor of Mediaworld PR Ltd, has written topical humour columns for five years….
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 133
Everything’s dafter in Texas by Graham Smith Page 2 of 3 Sorry, I digress. Back to the Yanks. A unique wind-proof beach towel has been…
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 132
Everything’s dafter in Texas by Graham Smith Page 3 of 3 I howled one day when an articulated waggon driver, and he was as articulated…
June 25, 2007
Grand Stand Against Sport
Jess Wynn is on the Post Graduate Writer’s Programme at Falmouth College.She is a Cornish-born budding feature writer and would-be novelist in her early 20s….
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 135
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 So why don’t we have enormous hog roasts across the country where…
June 25, 2007
Caught out by the law
If there’s anything worse for a journalist than a policeman without a sense of humour – it can only be a policeman WITH a sense…
June 25, 2007
Respect for women
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Why all the fuss about some woman sailing “around the world”? She’s…
June 25, 2007
Unidentified Headline 137
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Not content with taxing smokers to the…
June 25, 2007
Horsing around in court
Inspired by our cuttings from overseas, HoldTheFrontPage readers have sent in their own funnies, spotted in the UK regional press… All are anonymous to protect…
