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Competition rules

Ok these are simple as we are simple folk. Our decision is final, after all its our competition. To enter you must send something that is (to the best of your knowledge) accurate and true (or at least seem like it could be!). To win the competition what you send must make us laugh more than any other competition entry. Simply fill out our competition entry form here!

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Did you hear the one about….?

Some people tell a joke and everybody laughs. Other jokes go flat or even make people mad. How do you decide which jokes are OK and which might offend someone?

Know your audience. A joke may be funny to some people but not to others. The kind of joke a guy tells his guy friends might not go over well in a group that includes both guys and girls.

Don’t tell jokes that make fun of another person’s physical or mental characteristics. Even smart people may not like being called “the brain.”

"They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. They're not laughing now."

Bob Monkhouse

This Monkhouse gag is funny but, of course, it's much better heard than read. On paper, a joke is a pale and inadequate one-dimensional version of itself. In fact, a joke scarcely exists until someone has told it and someone else has laughed.

The who, where, when, what and why of a joke's telling can be more significant that its topic, and no single theory - from Freud's notion of the joke as a release of suppressed sexual neurosis to Schopenhauer's definition of humour as a reaction to incongruity - can explain how jokes work.