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Sarcasm and Irony

April 13, 2012
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THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN sarcasm and irony is lost on most people. The odds are that most people will think that they are the same. Well, in a way they would be right, except that sarcasm is a more nasty form of irony, used primarily to score points or to hurt. It would be ironic...

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Some Good Old Fashioned Jokes

February 17, 2012
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WITH LIVE COMEDY on TV every night and almost all town centres having their own comedy club it’s easy to find yourself some stand-up at short notice. The question is, do they make it like they used to? Are today’s offerings are patch on comedy legends of old? Get Me In looks at some...

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Tim Vine talks to Mark Kelly on Chattoon!

January 17, 2012
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Ha! Book Review: 364 Days of Tedium

October 19, 2011
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364DaysofTedium

WHAT A BRILLIANT idea! What does the man who only works on December 24th get up to for the rest of the year? Advertising agency copywriter (and gifted cartoonist) Dave Cornmell has let his fevered imagination run around this topic and come up with a bizarre selection of episodes from Santa's life. Apparently, because...

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Eat more and exercise less, says government

October 13, 2011
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BrianBox

THAT'S WHAT fat people do according to government health spokesperson Brian Box, pictured left. "Studies have shown that people who eat more are fatter than people who eat less," Mr Box said at a taxpayer-subsidised conference on Fat People and What They Should Do. "Also, people who get up out of their armchairs once...

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Good game, good game . . .

October 13, 2011
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Sir-Bruce-Forsyth being knighted by the Queen

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Survivalist faces his toughest challenge yet

October 13, 2011
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DerelictHospital

CRAG THUNDER, the world-famous survivalist and the man who once called Bear Grylls 'a girl', is facing the toughest challenge of his career. Having climbed Mount Everest single-handed TWICE and swum the length of the Amazon while dressed as Biffo the Bear, Crag came to international prominence when he jumped off the Eiffel Tower,...

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More than two flankers in the England rugby team

October 11, 2011
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Cartoon of England-Rugby-Team by Tim Leatherbarrow

Cartoons by Tim Leatherbarrow

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Politician caught telling truth sensation

October 9, 2011
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pinocchio

THE HOUSE OF COMMONS was rocked by allegations about a politician who is suspected of telling the truth on at least one occasion. "A disgrace to our noble vocation" – Tony Blair "I hope he didn't inhale" – Bill Clinton "You couldn't make it up" – Jeffrey Archer "I'm turning in my grave"- Richard...

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Britain’s Cash Hits the Fan

October 9, 2011
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caricature of Reg and Ronnie Kray Twins by Simon Ellinas

IN AN ACT of defiance following his recent Court appearances, the Guv of the Bank of England, Ronnie King together with his twin brother Reg have thrown caution to the wind, along with £75 billion of other people's money. Speaking at a news conference at the Blind Beggar venue in London's fashionable Whitechapel, a...

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Ross Kemp: the unedited memoirs, Part 3

October 9, 2011
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RossKemp

1978, Aged 16, Walthamstow college   SIXTEEN YEARS young and fresh out of school. God it felt good to be alive. Pimple they called me. Das college was a bustling affair with many distractions. But to be honest the worst thing I ever tried was a Snickers Bar. No, my real passion happened one...

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How the UK economy is managed:

October 7, 2011
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MervynKingFeatured

Cartoons by Simon Ellinas

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Charity begins at Home Secretary

October 4, 2011
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OUR CONFERENCE CORRESPONDENT WRITES: IN A BLISTERING attack on the rest of the World, the Home Secretary, Theresa May, told the Tory Party Conference today that nobody other than thoroughbred British people have any right to a family life in a free society. "How can anyone who is not completely British possibly merit a...

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Knox Guilty!

October 4, 2011
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SORRY, THE DAILY MAIL misheard. That should read NOT GUILTY!

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Lord Prescott and Eric Pickles go to Tesco

October 2, 2011
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PrezzaPicklesFeatured

ON THE HOTTEST October day since records began Tesco predicted it would sell 3.5million sausages, 550,000 burgers and 500,000 tubs of ice cream over the weekend. And that's just in Lord Prescott and Eric Pickles' neighbourhood.

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How love blossomed for Carla Bruni and Nicolas Sarkozy

September 29, 2011
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CarlaSarkoFeatured

NICOLAS BENT TO pick a buttercup and handed it to Carla. Carla's heart fluttered as his fingertips touched hers. "These, my dear," said Nicoals Sarkozy, pointing to some shrubbery, "are roses tremières and those are ornithogala pyramidales." Carla's legs turned to jelly. "Blimey!" she thought in her native cockney accent which she so cunningly...

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Why did they change Jif to Cif?

September 29, 2011
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Comedy singer songwriter Elliot Mason

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New TV comedy, this week only: Are Two Eds Better Than One?

September 26, 2011
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twoEdsFeatured

THE LATEST COMEDY double act to hit the screens has taken the nation by storm with "Two Eds Are Better Than One" blowing away audiences in Liverpool. Playing to rapturous applause from an admittedly partisan audience, Ed Miliband, the tall, ahem, good looking one without glasses joshes and banters with his straight man, the...

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Ha! Saturday Morning at the Movies presents . . .

September 24, 2011
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Apocalypse Now movie poster caricature

Caricatures and cartoons by George Williams

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Fifty glorious years for the established scourge of the establishment

September 21, 2011
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HislopFeatured

IT SEEMS LIKE yesterday that four spotty, ink stained schoolboys were giggling over an old Banda Machine in Shrewsbury School. Richard Ingrams, Willie Rushton, Christopher Booker and Paul Foot produced the Salopian in the mid Fifties. Once it had achieved some backing and the benefit of offset litho printing, and once the suggested name...

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