The UK Pun Championship happened and DiS didnāt win!
Also, the winner wrote them all ahead of time and none of these are:
a) original
b) actually puns
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Hi [Scout]
Please see the below release for the winner of the UK Pun Championships. Lee is available for interviewā¦
For immediate release
The UK Pun Championships 2023 Winner Announced: Lee Brace
The UK Pun Championships returned on Monday 13th February 2023 at De Montfort Hall in Leicester. Celebrating the great British pun with contestants from all across the UK where Lee Brace, aka āAttila the Punā, was crowned winner!
Joining him in the ring were: Ben Emmett, Cosmic Kat, Daniel Edison, Geoff Alderman, Kat Molinari, Pauline Eyre and Stevie Vegas. The event was hosted by Jason Byrne.
Award-winning actor and comedian Lee Brace was delighted with the win and said āI canāt quite believe I did it! Itās been a lot of fun writing so many puns (over 200 in total!) but getting to perform them in front of a sell-out crowd, at De Montfort Hall, in a full-size wrestling ring was something else! Magical!ā
Lee is now looking forward to performing his brand new character comedy show, āA Night with Ross Feratu and Friendsā this May at Brighton Fringe. Go to www.brightonfringe.org for tickets and you can follow him on Twitter for updates and more punny stuff! @bracealmighty
Some of the puns that helped Lee take the crown were:
I took my Spanish friend for a picnic at the weekend. He said āGracias!ā I said, āYeah, I should have bought a blanket!ā
When I was a kid, my Mum used to run a dating site for chickens. She did whatever she could to make hens meet.
Iāve just applied for a job as a waiter. Well, someone has to put food on the table.
Whenever thereās an eclipse, my Dad starts shaking and twitching. Lunar-tick!
For Christmas, I bought my girlfriend a book about Hypochondria. Well, what do you buy the woman who has everything?
The audience voted for their preferred pun by wooping and cheering and the favourite then went through to the next round. Ultimately, the two finalists, Daniel Edison and Lee Brace battled it out until the overall winner was crowned.
The UK Pun Championship also spawned the social media phenomenon which is #UKPunDay; a day that champions Britainās love of puns and wordplay, and which now takes place every year on the second Monday of February.
manās face and jokes fill me with unbridled rage
I took my Spanish friend for a picnic at the weekend. He said āGracias!ā I said, āYeah, I should have bought a blanket!ā
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When I was a kid, my Mum used to run a dating site for chickens. She did whatever she could to make hens meet.
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Iāve just applied for a job as a waiter. Well, someone has to put food on the table.
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Whenever thereās an eclipse, my Dad starts shaking and twitching. Lunar-tick!
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For Christmas, I bought my girlfriend a book about Hypochondria. Well, what do you buy the woman who has everything?
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This one has many of its foundations in a pun so i rule yes but begrudgingly
Bad dad jokes all of them. Even i wouldnāt stoop to those depths.
Bāb-bāb-
BRACE IN THE PLACE PUNS WON!
blood rave kicks in
I can guarantee he voted lib dem because he thought corbyn couldnt be trusted with the nuclear button
Gonna post that picture every time the football thread puns get out of hand.
Are you interviewing him today?
Iāve known of this wacky cuntās existence for less than 5 minutes and I already donāt think Iāve ever despised anyone more.
This travesty of justice brings the good name of north Northamptonshire into disrepute.
Tim Vine has a lot to answer for
Tim Vine is actually good though.
Not a pun, given the etymology of lunatic is people going mad because of the full moon.
Like, maybe ātic/tickā is half a pun.
The waiter one is okay, and if I thought of it while talking to someone Iād be quite pleased, tbf.
