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].
Loveable children’s characters have been implicated in criminal activity in a layout gaffe. In the Brampton Guardian, a Canadian paper, blow-up figures of Winnie-the-Pooh and the Abominable Snowman featured in a front-page picture – which was placed alongside a story headlined
The Romford Recorder raised a laugh with this headline about a funeral procession disrupted by a house fire earlier this month. Former local councillor Alby Tebbutt was on his way to say his final farewells to an old friend when
An early contender for the ‘Whitstable custard shortage’ award for non-story of the year has emerged in the shape of this strange tale from the South Wales Evening Post. The one-line brief reveals that Llwchwr Town Council “has decided to
Comedy moment with reporter’s wife takes place at press conference
This short court report which appeared in the Boston Standard over the Christmas period made one HTFP reader chuckle. Like him, we’re scratching our heads as to what constitutes a grossly inoffensive text message!
Never mind the blushing builder…we suspect there may have been some red faces on the subs desk over this typo from the Holyhead and Anglesey Mail.
A subbing glitch meant one regional US paper went to print bearing a harsh warning of impending doom. Clearly sent as a message to inform someone that the list of announcements was still awaited, it was sent to the page
They’re a plain-speaking lot on the Bridlington Free Press. What more needs to be said?
No less an expert than Peter Sands seems to think so, but you’ll have to go to the Norwich EveningNews24 website to see it in its full 154-word glory.
We’ve had the saucepan fire in which the damage was confined to the contents of the pan, but that seems like Pulitzer Prize-winning stuff besides this corker from the Lake District Herald.
Slow news week in the Manchester suburb of Timperley where the Sale and Altrincham Messenger reports on a culinary escapade gone wrong. The real killer is in the last paragraph: “The damage was limited to the food in the saucepan.”
The silly season has officially ended, but clearly no one has told the Hereford Times. Its tale about a discarded cabbage sprouting a 12-inch stalk in less than a fortnight has been the most viewed story on its website this
Readers unaware that The Killers are an American rock band may have been somewhat confused by this front page juxtaposition from Tuesday’s Liverpool Echo.
This nib from the Brentwood Gazette’s thisistotalessex.co.uk site may look like a classic end-of-silly-season story but according to editor-in-chief Alan Geere it’s already gone viral along with an accompanying tale about a scarf lost on the town’s High Street. “It’s
We’re not sure any UK regional newspapers would use this headline from Australia’s Northern Territory News, still less the colourful comments from the gentleman involved, but it’s nevertheless interesting to see how things are done down under.
Most people knew about the dangers of mixing fire and petrol but this story on KentOnline, the website of the Kent Messenger, provides a timely reminder to any readers not aware of the risks.