#9

None of these are particularly funny are they? Ed Byrne’s joke has been doing the rounds for years.

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#10

some of them definitely don’t work written down

whether they would be any better told aloud idk

#11

I quite like 5, although I’d tell it differently. And not as a one liner.

#12

You might be right there. I’m probably being uncharitable but they seem weaker than previous years.

My favourite from a few years back is the Tim Vine one about him seeing an advert for a state of the art Television which had a broken volume control being sold for a £1. “I thought I can’t turn that down”.

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#13

5 and 14 both made me smirk, they both provoked good visuals in my tiny mind.

#14

Tim Vine is normally strong in these kind of things. That one where he’s doing a private gig and bombs despite being basically fiune is so cringe and makes me feel so bad for him :frowning:

#15

I’ve definitely heard number one numerous times over the years.

#16

9 and 14 are alright

#17

I saw another of these lists which had a joke I quite liked (which I’ve improved upon if I do say so myself):

What’s a centaur’s favourite clothes shop? Topman.

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#19

I’m pretty sure 3 is in Hamlet anyway.

#21

Or bottomhorse.

A Dan Antopolski joke I believe.

I too saw another list (with that one on it), and thought it was pretty uniformly bad. But I saw it on FB on the feed of a friend of mine who loves going to comedy gigs and is FB friends with a lot of comedians. So when I got drunk and started incoherently expounding on the flaws of all the jokes… well it didn’t end well for me. I’m probably the only person in history who’s apologised to Michael Legge.

[I was also so drunk that I failed to understand one of the jokes I thought was terrible. When I sobered up I realised it was really funny.]

#22

The thing is, I think adding the Bottomhorse bit ruins it. It just makes it all too explicit.

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#23

11 and 15. mostly shit though

#24

That’s Indiana Jones’ favourite clothes shop too.

#25

I’ll let Michael Legge know of your objections. He will take them very well.

#26

This list isn’t it?

The jokes I mouthed off about were the Evelyn Mok one, the Grainne Macguire one and the Caroline Mabey one (that’s the one I didn’t get when pissed). Obviously I now think they are all works of genius.

#27

Hit and miss. Insomnia, Oregon and Eye Tests for me.

#28

The ones you mouthed off about were pretty weak… but how drunk were you not to get the glasses one?!

#30

Drunk enough to argue with a bunch of comedians about whether their friends’ jokes were funny. Even Keith from the Office disapproved of me (quite reasonably).

The thing that’s rather great about the eye test one is that it’s actually true, it really is the way that us speccies approach an eye test.

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