Tim Worstall links to this Times article (which I’d already seen, I should add) and prints out the Top Joke in England – the one about the weasels. Which is funny – I mean, yes, the joke is quite funny I suppose, if you like that sort of thing, but I’m talking more funny peculiar here – because the one that does it for me is the Best British Joke:
A woman gets on a bus with her baby. The driver says: “That’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen. Ugh!” The woman sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You tell him off, I’ll hold your monkey.”
I don’t know why, but that makes me chuckle every time. I’m sure I’ve heard it before, but where? Is it Billy Connolly, and that’s why it’s British and not English? Off the top of my head I’d say Les Dawson.
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