Product Details
- Publisher: Puffin (2022-03-29)
- Language: English
- Paperback: 288 pages
- ISBN-13: 9780241540046
- Item Weight: 204.12 grams
- Dimensions: 7.75 x 5.07 x 0.67 cm
Laugh yourself silly in this fantastic collection of jokes and riddles - the perfect gift for Christmas!
WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND RED ALL OVER?
An embarrassed Penguin
A sunburnt elephant
A newspaper!
Did those jokes make you laugh? Make you groan? Maybe a bit of both? There's a lot more where they came from.
Collected here by jokesmith Gyles Brandreth are some of the best and worst jokes ever (plus a few riddles to keep you on your toes).
From 'Knock, knock' to 'Waiter waiter', with some funny elephants and giraffes thrown in for good measure, there's also a bit of expert joke advice, so you can show others just how funny you can be!
'Very funny, and often outright silly' Guardian on Have You Eaten Grandma by Gyles Brandreth
About the Author
Gyles Brandreth is a writer, broadcaster, veteran of Just A Minute, QI and The One Show, former MP and Government Whip, now Chancellor of the University of Chester and founder of the 'Poetry Together' project bringing schoolchildren and older people together to learn poetry by heart. His many books include the best-selling poetry anthology, Dancing by the Light of the Moon, and the international best-seller about spelling and punctuation, Have You Eaten Grandma? With Susie Dent, the lexicographer from Countdown, he co-hosts the award-winning podcast, Something Rhymes With Purple. With Dame Sheila Hancock he presents Great Canal Journeys on Channel 4. With Dame Maureen Lipman he is a regular on Celebrity Gogglebox.
Gyles is married to writer and publisher Michèle Brown and has three children, seven grandchildren, and lives in London with his wife, his jumpers, and Nala, the neighbour's cat.