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].
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 the moment. In general therefore, its not the existence of sport that bothers me but
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 to clear the house of any sharp or breakable objects that would be within a
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. Lights flashed, horns sounded, fists waved. I had to check the back seat to make
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. Now he’s sharing them with HoldTheFrontPage. Page 1 of 3 If your dentist came at
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 tested to withstand significantly strong winds. But the manufacturers warn that during a hurricane their
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 as his vehicle, cast doubts on the parentage of three motorists and almost mangled a
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 thousands of poor people, asylum seekers and beggars can feast to their heart’s content? We
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 of humour. Picture the scene: A “north Midlands” newsroom (sorry to be vague, but it
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. She comes armed with a degree and a talent for clear, amusing writing – with
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 not been around the world at all. The race was just down to Antarctica and
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 hilt even though they don’t live long enough to avail themselves of many services, the
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 the guilty. They range from the clever (and our favourite)… … to those that raise
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 I was wondering how long it would take the chattering classes to latch onto another example of outrageous political correctness from the BBC. The victim, once again,
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 Lord Irvine, he of the expensive wallpaper and 90 denier tights, is in trouble again for inviting ambitious lawyers to a fund-raising dinner and leaning on them
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 So who is to blame for the Foot and Mouth epidemic? Step forward, Tony Blah. Think about it. One of the major issues in the forthcoming election
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 Oh, Mandy. Well you came and you gave without taking, but I sent you away, oh Mandy. So the only British cabinet minister to have a song