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].
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 “Describe, in less than 500 words, how you would excuse going missing from the job for six days after disconnecting an elderly
Ever fancied a ‘Duvet Day’?The new fad from America caught the attention of third year journalism student Kate Simpkins, whose thoughts were first published in the online magazine, hackwriters.com Page 1 of 2 Sleep your way to a better life?Had
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 If you were trying to get more women to join the Army, who would you use in the publicity photos? A size 18 swamp donkey with cropped
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 I am outraged to hear that a woodwork teacher from Devon is being investigated after complaints of cruelty to pupils. His alleged
Clippings sent via e-mail from colleagues in the world of electronic media reveal the regional press is the same the world over… For example, good advice is hard to come by: Or is it?: And it seems the US lawmen
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 It appears that there may be health concerns about farmed salmon. Well, there would be, wouldn’t there? How can farming salmon be
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 One of the blights of modern times is the belief that style matters more than substance. From Anthea Turner to Frank Skinner, from Oasis to Mr Blah,
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 The Post Office might be tickled to death with its new name, but behind the scenes its workers are as revolting as
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 As you may have noticed, I don’t have a lot of time for the lentil-eating, sandal-wearing, Guardian-reading Lefties who infest the parts of Bristol where stripped pine
Barry Beelzebub – The Devil’s AdvocateA weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 2 of 2 You simply cannot reason with these people. Some of them are just stark, raving mad, some of them go on demonstrations because…
Helpful people, those sub-editors. In case you wondered, they went to great pains in the design of this item from a regional paper to help you identify a turkey:- And a Merry Christmas to you all – vegetarians and carnivores
Animal crackers 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 What do you do if your rabbit
Animal Crackers by Graham Smith Page 2 of 3 A bridge too farIsn’t technology wonderful? The £18.2 million pound Millennium bridge may have been wobbling so the boffins decided the best way to test it was to have 300 workers
Animal Crackers by Graham Smith Page 3 of 3 NutsDid you hear about a leading chain store having to recall a chocoholic range of body paints because they may contain traces of nuts? Now behave. A notice was issued saying
A weekly column reproduced from the Bristol Evening Post Page 1 of 2 It’s that time of year again when there’s only the big, hard yellow toffees left in the Quality Street tin. So it’s time to make a few
Debbie Eales, of the Kent Messenger Group, had doubled her chances of winning a bumper box of luxuty chocolates in time for Christmas by sending us these two Christmas crackers. A group of chess grand masters have just returned to