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The marvelous thing about a joke with a double meaning is that it can only mean one thing.

~Ronnie Barker

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Next week we'll be investigating rumours that the president of the dairy council has become a Mason, and goes around giving his colleagues the 'secret milkshake.'

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The toilets at a local police station have been stolen. Police say they have nothing to go on.

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But first, the news: The House of Commons was sealed off today after police chased an escaped lunatic through the front door during Prime Minister's question time. A spokesman at Scotland Yard said it was like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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Many old music hall fans were present at the funeral today of Fred 'Chuckles' Jenkins, Britain's oldest and unfunniest comedian. In tribute, the vicar read out one of Fred's jokes, and the congregation had two minutes silence.

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To get a job where the only thing you have to do in your career is to make people laugh-well, it's the best job in the world.

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I suppose I would like to be remembered as one of the funniest men that people have seen on television.

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It's better to make people laugh than cry.

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Don't just crit their siticising.

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There was a strange happening during a performance of Elgar's 'Sea Pictures' at a concert hall in Bermuda tonight, when the man playing the triangle disappeared.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Comedian

Born: September 25th, 1929

Died: October 3rd, 2005

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