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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.

Whether it be an amusingly misspelt headline or a double-entendre of the first degree, we want to feature them on this page.

We rebranded the collections as Friday Funnies in 2008 to reflect their status as the perfect end to the week - or the "little jingle that takes you into the weekend" as Times writer Giles Coren once famously said.

If you spot one, tell us about it by emailing editor.htfp@and.co.uk.

Check out the latest gaffs below or click through to our funnies archive.



Friday Funnies: Psychic fails to live up to billing
Plus: A man with serious health concerns and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Is that shaken or stirred?
Plus: The MP with the smallest expenses and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Teacher hit by double blow
Plus: The gig prophet and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Subbing 'Cox-up' blamed on gremlin
Plus: Tiger Woods shows off new look and more media funnies

Weekly takes grave humour in good heart
Times columnist accepts 'prestigious award'

Friday Funnies: Who has the biggest skid mark?
Plus: You want WHAT (?!) to stand as an MP and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: How do you reverse a jobs blow?
Plus: Get a Handel on this and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Was 'Cox-up' sub made to grovel?
Plus: When is a homeless man not homeless and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Someone's a poet but doesn't know it
Plus: Man uses pub toilet shocker and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: No news is good news
Plus: Police secure hash cash and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: The ultimate collection
Our nostalgic look back at the best mirthful media moments of 2009

Friday Funnies: When is a dog not a dog?
Plus: A really unimpressed inmate and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Dead man found where?
Plus: How not to secure work experience and more press funnies

Friday Funnies: When three goes into six
Plus: A footballer gives birth, check your meal for swine flu – and more press funnies

Friday Funnies: Baring all on local radio
Plus: Journo in need of a cold shower, promoting healthy debate – and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Bird? Plane? Or just an artist's impression?
Plus: Sub not to trust with your Pools coupon – and more funnies

Friday Funnies: Perils of misplaced photos
The MP you thought you knew and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: Paper goes nuclear over swine flu
Plus: Residents buzz off from fire, when chips go mental – and more media funnies

Friday Funnies: A dual-purpose headline
Plus: Angry from Liverpool writes – and more gems from the regional press

Friday Funnies: Here chicky chicky!
Plus: The MP you don't want to tick off, a dangerous shopping expedition – and more funnies

Friday Funnies: Til death do us part
Plus: Grammar pedants of the world unite, fancy a holiday in the UAE – and more funnies

Friday Funnies: Evening Telegraph gets shirty
Plus: Police appeal taking the P, a man walks into a bar – and more press funnies

Editor Sam launches stand-up comedy career
Bath newspaper boss won't be giving up the day job

Spoof-tastic tales help lift recession gloom
Our round-up of the best April 1 stories from across the regional press

Friday Funnies: Campaigner's close shave with hair-o-plane
Plus: The new face of the Sally Army, explosive news from Kenilworth, and more press funnies

Friday Funnies: Ham-fisted approach to picture placement
Plus: Fashion for journalists, insert a quote when you get chance and more press funnies

101 uses for a daft press release
Recycled rubbish provides Christmas feature idea

Friday Funnies: A paw headline for a barking mad vet
What not to eat for hounds, a witty cartoonist and more press funnies

Friday Funnies: Editor's apology over glaring own goal
Northern Echo boss can't defend his sports chief, Anglia's speedy news service – and more press comedy

Friday Funnies: Wanted – press officer with gift of the gab
Plus – the sports pullout living up to its name and the quest to find the next musical genius

Friday Funnies: 'Ere, wanna buy a pot plant?
Plus the alternative hospital equipment test and a fitting headline for defunct travel firm

Ford Grandad for sale - and other classic howlers
Regional press features strongly in new collection of misprints

Friday Funnies: A Facebook friend with a difference
Yorkshire town left off the rock circuit and some pressing issues at Stansted Airport

Friday Funnies: Where there's fire there's drama
Plus an unfortunate equine incident and a T-shirt for the hacked-off hack of today

Friday Funnies: Helicopter headline raises a smile
....and more press funnies including a pun-tastic headline which failed to amuse one reader!!

Friday Funnies: Which politician is letting people walk all over her?
More funnies from the regional press - including a confused picture caption and a VERY CLEAR headline!!

Big Brother u-turn is 'next best' front page option!
More press funnies - including a spoof column paying tribute to an editor's style and substance

The sailor was treated and the boat recovered...
Intriguing headlines - and the truth behind the editors' phone conference

Ballet fraud on voting day - more funny news items
...including the BBC's Great Tit story

Dating tips: Tell them how you're 'always sliming'...
Strange headlines and even stranger copy - and some secrets - from the world of the regional press...

The best place to book a photograher - according to the local press...
More funnies supplied by our eagle-eyed readers

Editor's wet fish prank stuns breakfast DJ
Joke was payback for presenter poking fun at local papers for giant cheque pics and huge fish photos

How lucky is lucky? A press release might tell you... plus a new take on the Mills/McCartney case
More news items that tickled the funny bones of our readers

Expensive shirts and a cheap gag - more unusual headlines
The stuggle to get a balanced, accurate and succinct headline goes on...

Headlines that speak for themselves - and other press funnies
A spring collection of cuttings that made us say "eh?"

"Posh and Becks" targeted by vandals – and the world knows about it
Belfast Telegraph story goes global as Northern Ireland's new royal couple board up their home

Cyclist brakes neck: Click through for a few more unusual press headlines...
Our contributors send in some funnies to brighten up the New Year treadmill

Press and media funnies archive


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