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 [email protected].
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 deserved inclusion in our funnies file! Click here to read the full unexpurgated story.
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 the latter’s surprise resignation last week. However we doubt that York daily The Press will
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 linen, but either way you have to feel sorry for the poor chap in question!
Here’s a lovely front page headline/picture juxtaposition from the Ballyclare Gazette, in County Antrim. Well, it made us laugh!
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 Heath. Readers of the Mid-Sussex Times will doubtless have been relieved to find that the
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 the Malvern Hills. The caption even boasted: ‘Symphony in orange.’ A shame it came out
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. Had ‘Red Ed’ suddenly become ‘Dead Ed?’ Closer inspection revealed that the Labour leader was
At first sight this looked like either a typo or an indication of a degree of, er, confusion amongst the female population of Rugby. Thankfully, the Rugby Advertiser’s Pete Horton has now assured us it is neither. The truth
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 local patch. Anyone wanting to know the location of the church bell-tower depicted need only
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 of dog bites man… The plane truth later emerged however when it was revealed that
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 the stricken cruise liner on its front page. Hopefully Saturday’s disaster will not have left
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? Either way, the end result was the same: hundreds of copies of a weekly newspaper
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 errors. Certainly that was the experience of the Grimsby Telegraph when it published a story
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