Unfinished Jokes

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LOUIS PICKS HIS FAVOURITE UNFINISHED JOKES FROM YOUR ENTRIES

Most of these are just puns! (I know I should talk) but my favourite three are:

In Roman/biblical times, a chariot is being driven quickly, despite wet weather. Something about Antioch braking.

Adrian Stovold, adrian_stovold@yahoo.co.uk

Something about the Equestrian events in the paralympics, to do with three-legged horses, or perhaps some in huge wheelchairs (is this too tasteless?)

Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

something about having a really bad curry and having ‘Nan flashbacks’
Matthew DeAbaitua

Keep em coming,

Louis

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YOUR UNFINISHED JOKES:

Something about pigs being treated for burns by being given skin grafts made of streaky bacon.
Or,
A joke where Star Wars, Radio 3 and a porn web site specialising in primates all pool their resources to produce a new movie, featuring a hero known only as Oboe Wank Bonobo.
Anon

Something about giving military colouring books to children who are upset, so they’ve got a soldier to crayon. Or possibly not.
Adam Bowman

Something about the Japanese world cup squad playing a “5-7-5″ haiku formation.
Gregor

The evil Machiavellian criminal mastermind is foiled in his attempt to bring the internet to its knees. ‘Cursors, cursors’
Karen Morden

Something about John Wayne (or should it be Glen Campbell?) smoking too much grass on a boat trip in Germany, and being a Rhine Stoned Cowboy.
Ben Paxton

Something about an astute carpenter who hits the nail on the head. If he didn’t like Jimmy Nail, that would be pretty extraordinary too.
Richard Dance

Something about a helicopter gunship attack on an ancient Greek ruin in Athens called Acropolis Now.
Or,
Something about the quality of aviation safety standards in Biblical times, featuring a character called Conscious Pilot.
Or,
A film concerning the fauna surrounding a man made lake called Reservoir Logs (Mr Beech, Mr Larch, Mr Oak, etc.)
Finally,
A vexing question: do Islamic teddy boys celebrate Ramadamadingdong?
Rob Westlake

One about a short butcher who won’t gamble because the steaks are too high.
Simon Heaney

Something about a documentary about losing religion during childbirth. Children called Faith, Hope and Brenda?
W G MullHolland

Something about the A-Team having their own cookery show with the punchline “I love it when a flan comes together”.
Or,
Something about the A-Team running out of red-necks to fight and going on the dole. BA and Murdoch have to get jobs with the council working on the sewers with the punchline “I ain’t going down no drain fool”.
James Bendle

Something about my dad trying to pass on to me the family ‘All on one site’ golf course and hotel development.”It’s like my parents are trying to give me a complex or something…”
Andrew Sames

Something along the lines of a musical being written about September 11th – called Osama Time Blues. Perhaps one of the key protagonists could take his problem to the United Nations.
Chas Newkey-Burden

Something about a sleepy and vaguely oval-shaped drug enforcement officer who suffers from narc-ellipsy.
James Shaw

Something about seeing a man drowning in a river and throwing him a bottle of Rescue Remedy. This joke would work best when told at a meeting for the chronically nervous.
Robert Paul

Something about a chain of sex shops investing in the London Underground, they’ll be renaming it the Pick-a-dildo Line.
Dominic Forbes

Something about having T R U T H tattoed on your knuckles and then going around punching various people.
Sarah Janes

Something about a porn film involving a threesome between a rodent secret agent, his assistant Penfold and his arch-nemesis Baron Greenback, called ‘Dangermouse Liaisons.’
Rob Walker

Something about being in denial being better then being in de Thames.. or
maybe not…
Steve Denby

Something about a man who truly believes he owns everything he sees and when questioned, constantly states: “Perception is nine tenths of the law,” in a really annoying voice.
Ben Atherton

An exhausted housewife is relieved to hear about ‘the end of irony’.
Lisa Goldstein

Perhaps a gag about a new tv show in which thousands of lazy fathers compete in front of has-been judges for the mantle of Pop Idle.
Chas Newkey-Burden

These need a little work: Alanis Morisette goes into a bar. The barman says “we named this pub after you.” She says “What, Alanis Morisette?”
Or
A white horse goes into a bar. The barman says “Why has Alanis Morisette got such a long face?” The horse says “I don’t know Derek, pint of Staropramen please”
… or something
Marcus O’Neill

Something about having a really bad curry and having ‘Nan flashbacks
Matthew De Abaitua

A remake of Jerry Maguire, with Tom Cruise as an errant art dealer: “show me the Monet” etc. etc. On second thoughts…..
Pat Long

Something about a really apathetic scientist who makes lots of stuff to do with things and works in Generic Engineering.
Ben Atherton

Following on from the Cheeses of Nazareth gag – the best place to get a drink in Israel is the wall of Cherry Coke, arf arf.
Richard Dance

Something about President Clinton coming between two Bushes (President George & President George W)
James Daley

Something about the Equestrian events in the paralympics, to do with three-legged horses, or perhaps some in huge wheelchairs (is this too tasteless?)
or
Jackie Wilson is caught in a “Fatal Attraction” situation where he is being obsessively stalked, and the song is “Your love keeps lifting my ire”
Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

One about the disaffected Lemsip factory workers who plan to go on strike and give their bosses a taste of their own medicine
Chas Newkey-Burden
chas@newkey-burden.com

One about an incontinent old ladies fur wrap that is accidently mistaken for cake mix by an extra from a western so he ends up pissed-stole-whipped, (maybe needs work..)
Bob Harrison
b.harrison@flowstate.com

Something about confusion surrounding the phrase “working class”, meaning either being from a blue-collar background, or a hard working group of pupils in a school. Maybe not.
Jim Blackler
jim_blackler@hotmail.com

Something about a saxophone hire shop where a bloke goes in and says “Can I borrow a tenor?”…
Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

The militant plumber who wants to bring down the cistern
Adam Lay
adamjameslay@hotmail.com

It’s about a group of people that go around taunting areas of outstanding natural beauty and they’re called eco-worriers
OR They might be Irish soldiers with a fear of mice and they’re called
EEK! O’warriors
OR they’re not Irish but they fight bacteria and they’re called Ecoli Warriors
There are probably equally piss-poor gags about Ecu-warriors and ecomdotwarriors, too.

Would the Fool of the Wild Frontier have been Davey Cock-up? And the Minstrel of the Wild Frontier was no doubt called Davey Crotchet and his catch phrase was ‘Back in a minim/minuet’

These are punchlines that need set-ups, if any other readers feel able to help:

‘My god, man, you weren’t supposed to eat it’
‘And she’s the pretty one’
‘Well the pig never complained’
‘It didn’t do that last time’
‘Funny, that’s what last chap said just before he died’ ‘Who said I was drilling for oil?’
‘That’s what the brick is for’
‘Yes, but normally we ask permission’
Kev
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK

Something about a remake of that Patrick Swayze film for the rave generation, Dirty Trancing.
Matthew De Abaitua

Remakes of popular films with one significant difference to the original: the protagonist decides against the life changing decision required to kickstart the storyline. In the remake of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker decides that farming isn’t all that bad; the film turning into a two hour documentary on the difficulties of farming on a planet which appears to be devoid of vegetation (this also makes the rest of the series redundant). Can’t think of any others at the moment.
Richard Smith
Richard.Smith@astrazeneca.com

In Roman/biblical times, a chariot is being driven quickly, despite wet weather. Something about Antioch braking.
Adrian Stovold
adrian_stovold@yahoo.co.uk

Something beginning with: ‘I say, my dogs got no owner’ Perhaps continuing with ‘How does it smell?’ ‘How does what smell?’ Perhaps not.
Miller
matmiller@matmiller.freeserve.co.uk

Chat Show scenarios
1. A chat show host has very bad conversational skills. Guest comes on, they exchange pleasantries, then there’s a long uncomfortable silence. Then they talk about the weather or something. Another uncomfortable silence. With hilarious consequences.
2. Similar thing but chat show host is really shy and daren’t pluck up the courage to ask anything, goes bright red. Possibly star struck, and mouths ‘That’s Tom Cruise!’ (or whoever guest is) to cameraman. Quiz show Standard quiz show begins, but the host is a Del Boy type character who winks and says ‘No questions arsked’, nudge nudge and all that. The contestants find it difficult to proceed.
Craig
cheesyknees@yahoo.com

Something about a chap who worked in a sports equipment making factory, specialising in Tennis equipment, being made redundant and buying the rather noisy machinery to make tennis equipment and continuing the business in his garage, until one of his neighbours got fed up and went round and said ‘Stop making that racket’
Matthew Wintle
matthew.wintle@uk.royalsun.com

A hilarious situation involving someone requiring cacti & receiving bad neck-wear (“cack tie”)? Perhaps not…..
Harley Fidgeon
Harley.Fidgeon@schwab-europe.com

Something about Jeffrey Archer going down… but this time not with a woman. Jenny Tidman
starfightingpolarbear@yahoo.com

A shrimp becomes a troubled and overweight forensic psychologist – obviously a prawn Cracker
Ben Woodcock
marauder_ben@hotmail.com

Where does Emile Zola go to relax?
A J’acuzzi

What do you say if a poet and late show presenter offers you a waterproof sheet?
Ta paulin
Martin Beckford
Martin.Beckford@cabalcomm.com

Something about a model maker who makes models of mountain ranges and tells everyone he scales the highest peaks.

Something about a consumer watchdog champion who is also a naturist, he goes around pointing at his scrotum telling everyone, “Warning! These may contain nuts”…
Alan
alan_e_smith@hotmail.com

A spin on ‘Carol Vordermans Better Homes’ entitled ‘Carol Vordermans Bitter Homos’, where homosexual men discuss relationships gone awry….
atholl.campbell@btinternet.com

Something about cricket from Lourdes
Rachel Johnston
rachyj@altavista.com

Two punchlines:
“And suddenly, his whole wife flashed before his eyes” and
“Sorry love, but I’m not paying a penny for another sixty eight of those.”
Simon Forrester
hairy@gamecampaign.com

This would have been good in 1994 (when morrissey came out with “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get). The more I see of him, the _______er I get… or perhaps put it on ice until that Manchester movie–24 hour party people or whatever comes out? Has it come out? Or has…?
Grace Kline
GKline@randomhouse.com

Something about St Francis backing away from fights because he’s Asissi
or
Something about Gorillas eating fish and chimps
Jonnie Daniels
Jonny.Daniels@netnames.com

What about: -
Suggestion for TV Program: Changeling Rooms. People have two days to decorate each others accommodation on the Habitat Ring. If they don’t like it at the end they can just bring the old stuff back because the walls/fixtures/fittings were only Odo and his mates.
Ta, Dave Smith
d.smith@bradytrinity.com

A game show about the popular pastime of nictation – Sleekest Wink? Something about the BBC trying to raise its standards by having the cast of Eastenders speak in blank verse slang.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK

Why did the medium cross the road? To get to the other side/reach the other side or something. But you need to make sure the listener realises you mean a spiritual medium and not just, I don’t know a medium sized garment.
Accordion King Dick Contino
9734047@sms.ed.ac.uk

Inspired by Pete’s one about Monsieur Mange-Tout: Something about Sport Billy (he of the magic tardis-esque bag) flirting with a girl, only it turns out he really *does* have a canoe in his pocket.
cheers Ben
PS. Sorry about the stupid disclaimer.
Ben.Paxton-Crick@ubsw.com

Picasso and Kadinsky in a pub, shots are heard, they rush to the door and Kadinsky asks – “is that Matisse killing doves?”, Picasso retorts “no it’s Klee pigeon shooting”
James Robinson
jamesr@exemplas.com

Young guy goes into freud’s liquor store. the man behind the counter asks to see his id.
or
Middle-eastern dairy products shop: cheeses of Nazareth.
or
Othello done as a comedy, retitled ‘the moor the merrier.’
or
Laundrette for hippies called ‘ethnic cleansing.’
or
Moses fails to part the red sea: you just can’t get the staff these days.
or
Idea for a film: das boot – the musical.
teharrison12@hotmail.com

Theme is ‘Lord of the…’

I think it must be possible to make up something funny about the J.R.R Tolkien Foundation sponsoring proctology awards.
Or
William Golding sponsoring awards for new trouser zip designs
Or
It’s about a scientist who has found some really big and ancient straight lines marked off at regular intervals in a desert somewhere and he tells everyone that it’s evidence of when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Kev Tansley

This one should be a drawing but I can’t be arsed so I’ll describe it and you can imagine it in your head. Basically there’s a bunch of hookers playing with a model race track, but instead of cars they’re racing little figures of men who used to be clients and we can see the box cover for the track and it’s called – ‘To Scale Ex-tricks’
Or
I’m sure there could be a comedy sketch about a doctor whose sole form of treatment is to say to patients ‘You’re looking well today’ and it’s because he’s using complimentary medicine.
Or the commercial failure of a deja vu pill because people think they’ve already taken it.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LE

Something about a documentary following the search for a hairy half human, half mountain lion, beast living in Tibet. With the whole adventure triggered by the discovery of irregular faeces – Catmando
Or
Something about the current search with a huge electronic net for Nessie �� Gridloch
Or
A new product designed to stop office workers suffering from the trots -Ringbinder
fotheringtonwayne@hotmail.com

There was a joke in the 70′s involving a plane exploding mid air whilst carrying a cargo of spares for Japanese cars , it ended “its rainning Datsun cogs”. It was very funny by the standard of other jokes of the era.
Laurence Wilson
advice@brixton167.freeserve.net

Somethimg about a Swiss admiral and a baby. The baby sucks, sucks, sucks and never fails but I am too tired to figure out the connection with the Swiss admiral.
tivadar@erols.com

A sort of TV detective update of Anna Karenina, but this time it’s Anna Karenina , Coroner.
Tom Bailey.
tomjbailey@hotmail.com

Something about condoms being ribbed for her pleasure and wearing them inside out
millennium_trophy_fans@teeing-off.co.uk

A new magazine comes out that is packed full of stuff you simply must NOT do. The Big Eschew?
Or maybe it is for people who are proboscularly(?) well endowed or suffer from potentially life-threatening onanism: The Big Tissue – this could be more of a constructed-reality game show.

Inspired by Madeleine’s Anne Robinson one: Familiar type of game show where the contestants are made up of Yetis (?), Big Foots, Kate Thorntons… “You are the missing link, goodbye”.
This could also be a series of amusing 48-sheet posters along the M4.

Don’t really know but maybe something to do with female soldiers funded to get breast implants… Women Soldiers who suffer from terrible thrush could maybe get an honourable discharge. Is this tasteless?

PAUL SPRATLEY
p_spratley@hotmail.com

There’s an anaemic man who’s talking to a poacher, or it might be a vet, anyway he ends up putting polecats down his trousers to treat his low ferritin levels.
Or
It’s a film, really and it’s a sci-fi version of the Sound Of Music where the Von Trapps explore the solar ti doh system. Sigourney Weaver to reprise Julie Andrews role and the posters to have the tagline ‘In space no-one can hear you sing’.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LE

A TV detective series starring David Jason as a curmudgeonly DI who always leaves it a bit too long before going to the toilet for a number two. Title “A touch of Cloth”
Sav
saveloy@another.com

Concerning the American liking for drive-thru things being taken to its logical conclusion with a drive-thru car park
Jamie Milne
james26@hotmail.com

Something ending in “But is it Nietzche or nurture?” (Would it be funnier if it was a Glasweigan saying it?).
Christian Lloyd
3cll7@qlink.queensu.ca

This joke has a punchline, but the rest needs work. Rolf Harris goes for a job interview with a publisher, doing editing or something like that, and when asked what attracted him to this position, says that he likes to “summarise early in the morning…”
Neil Sowerby
neil.sowerby@let-it-be-thus.com

One about a thief in a garden centre, and the line -”hands up, this is some shrubbery”?
tallan@ccgxm.com

Something about a disillusioned proctocologist who was browned-off about his job.
John Millard
john@millard40.fsnet.co.uk

Someone gets a stupid present from Dracula and says “it’s the count that thoughts”
Pipster
pip_walsh@hotmail.com

Something about the Casket Wholesale Centre in my neighbourhood placing an advertisement in The Genocide Quarterly with the tagline, “When a Mass Grave Just Won’t Do.”
Kristina
blachere@pacabell.net

Perhaps not so much an unfinished joke as an unfinished film: someone stranded in the jungle beats the odds and saves himself from deadly mosquitoes by fashioning a net out of a surfeit of dental floss which had mistakenly arrived with his last supply drop and is the only posession he has apart from what he is wearing after a catastrophic mishap… there could also be something about mental nourishment through knitting and such
Mat Wrigley
mat@wrigley.cx

More generation game (inspired by MDA’s contribution)
How about ‘The Next Generation Game’ – where members of the public have to battle to death with the Klingons?
Or the CSA Generation Game where an absconding father has to try and pick out his own child from a selection going past on the conveyor belt?
Kev Tansley
pscklt@west-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk

Perhaps you need to say this one out loud:
Bloke arriving at a dinner party with a bottle of wine: “Hello darlings! I’ve got a lovely semillon for you all!”
Antony
antony@courseofaction.net

How about all the mice in the Underground tunnels being black because they’ve got “soot and mouse diease”?
Rich
richfitz@btclick.com

Something about hotdogs being merely vehicles for ketchup and mustard.
Minkin Brian
stinkinminkin@yahoo.com

There’s a bloke in a pub and his dog does tricks.
The punchline is “Give him a crisp and he’ll let you”
Sid Snake
city@pickles.demon.nl

Something about this year’s Mercury Music award winner being born 10 weeks prematurely, finishing on “badly born boy”.
Two lilliputians set up a film distribution company called 20 centimetre fox.
jandcuk@aol.com

Just wondering aloud here, but what is it that they debate on the smorgasbo(a)rd?
my evil twin
myeviltwin@lineone.net

Something silly about Phil Oakey’s favourite artist: ‘Here come the Miro Man.’ This also works to hilarious effect with ‘I’ll be your Mirror’ by the Velvet Underground.
A game show in which Anne Robinson attaempts to make monkeys assert themselves and stand up for their rights. The monkey who performs most poorly in this task is ‘the meekest chimp’.
Madeleine
mmcneil79@hotmail.com

Similar to Louis Theroux’s suggestion, how about a show featuring the glories of an ancient jewish wind instrument, “shofar so good”
Something like a TV show in which three girls are given different amounts of cash to spend on drugs: the first girl gets a tenner to spend on dope, the second gets a fifty to spend on coke and the third gets a ton to spend on heroin. Provisional title, “She’s Gotta Habit”.
Henry Anderton
henry.anderton@talkback.co.uk

A dinner party game, where everyone drinks a bottle of whisky, and then someone leaves the room and you have to guess who it was.
Andrew
Andrew.shillito@geocapital.com

A not very good idea about having the first non-caucasian James Bond and the theme song being “Secret Asian Man”.
R. Baez
baez_richard@hotmail.com

An all-monkey version of the Beatles that gets split up by Benobo Ono
A scheme that allows people who have commited public acts of stupidity to adopt a new personna – the Witless Protection Programme
A team of singing pachyderms called the Acapellaphants
Sav
saveloy@another.com

One of those TV programmes which show company directors taking on the role of lowly employees for a week. Except, in my version, it’s not for a week, it’s forever. And there are no TV cameras to film their anguished realisation that it’s not just a quick lark for TV…
Brian Dean
briandean@mcmail.com

Something about a sloane version of the generation game. They have to remember all the names of guests who came to their party, who go by on a conveyor belt.
Matthew De Abaitua
xxf89@dial.pipex.com

Perhaps fodder for a one-off sitcom, a programme about bald men entering a quiz show called ‘Who wants to have a million hairs?’
Iain Harrison
iainharrison@lineone.net

Something along the lines of lepers on ice… like the disney on ice extravaganzas of my youth, but starring all your favourite lepers.
Duncan Craig
duncancraig@worldmailer.com

Something about the English cricket team, constipation and not being able to get the runs.
Jon
JonRegw@aol.com

Inspired by the acapellaphants joke:
A Pachydermatologist:
Either a medical specialist in the field of elephantisis, or someone employed to make huge sticky plasters and giant tubes of skin cream.
Phil Hackett
phil.hackett@ntlworld.com

Something about the remake of Gerry Maguire set in the Midlands where Tom Cruise visits an exhibition of French impressionist painters.
John Millard
john.millard@port.ac.uk

Something about sex being the only thing at which I come first.
Nick Reynolds
reynolds@clientfocus.com

A peer of the realm refusing valet parking because he thinks its varlet parking… and… unh… tries to kill the valet. Yeah.
A man who slices the heads and legs off of sheep to make more clouds because he hates sunny days.
Tim T.
denizmuftuoglu@earthlink.net

1. Toy Story 3 made under the rules of Dogme film-making. 2 hours of a pile of real toys not moving. In poor lighting.
2. Richard Gere to star in Being Madeleine Albright. Richard finds a portal into her mind and uses it to try to influence policy and sort out Tibet and that sort of thing. But he only gets 15 minutes at a time. Cue much policy toing and froing. Hilarity possibly ensues.
jfidler@cyberway.com.sg

Q: “What’s the difference between Ann Widdecome and a Little Chef?”
A: [something to do with grassy verges, or the archaic attitudes, dunno].
mattie.alston@kcl.ac.uk

something about a dog with leukemia needing a marrowbone transplant”
rpearson@xpansif.co.uk

you know when you see police vans that say ‘dog section’ on the side? well they are driven by specially trained canines that are dispatched to deal with ‘dog crimes’.
If you look, you can see their heads leaning out of the windows with their tongues out as they drive.
love, danny.xxx
wildfoot@kung-fu.co.uk

Something about a little orphan boy in a stranger’s bathtub in a stranger’s house. The door is opened by the owner of the house, some stodgy old codge. The boy says, while scrubbing his back: Hello, Guvnor! Would you please close the door? Jean_Kang@ama-assn.org

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

I saw a solar powered torch the other day at the Energy Centre in Leicester, so someone has bothered on your behalf, also there was mention of a serial monogamist on the Mid Week programme on Radio 4 this week with Peter Stringfellow as a guest and the next presenter used your Cereal Monogamist joke as the link into his programme… Your influences go further than you imagine! Love, Phil Hackett
phil.hackett@ntlworld.com

LOUIS’ PREVIOUS FAVOURITES

1. Something to do with mathematicians doing too many subtractions and causing a sudden shortage in numbers. The government issues an emergency statement to the effect that ’92′ must be added to the front of all numbers (so instead of counting 1, 2, 3 etc you’ll have to say 92-1, 92-2, 92-3). Certain numbers are especially rare and a captive breeding programme is set up – where numbers are multiplied together! Arf!

Also, how about numbers being recycled, so you can only use a number that you’ve cut out of an old bank statement or computer print-out. Maths text books become like gold dust.

One about Monsieur Mange-Tout (the bloke who eats everything from glass to aeroplanes) being really frightened and literally shitting a brick.
Pete
Pete.diaper@port.ac.uk

1. If Regicide is when you kill a king, what’s it called when you kill someone called Reggie

2. If you don’t leave me alone I’ll call the NepaleseAnything there?

3. I ain’t never gonna be bespectacled Advert for contact lenses, maybe?

4. Doctor in a hurry writes email to patient: V.bad news! U have cancer of the …

AN UNFINISHED ANSWER

Q: If Regicide is when you kill a king, what’s it caslled when you kill someone called Reggie?

A: East End gang warfare
Jason Owen
j.r.owen@livjm.ac.uk

LOUIS’ PREVIOUS FAVOURITE:

Yo yo yo, this issue’s winner is Paul Hamilton’s one about Gene Wilder, excellent.

LT

Gene Wilder, son of Gene Wilde, father of Gene Wildest

Paul Hamilton

SUBMIT YOUR OWN UNFINISHED JOKES!

And win an Idler t-shirt! Below are a few of Louis’s Unfinished Jokes. Every so often we’ll print a selection of readers’ entries. Louis picks the winner.

LOUIS PICKS HIS FAVOURITE UNFINISHED JOKES FROM YOUR ENTRIES

Most of these are just puns! (I know I should talk) but my favourite three are:

In Roman/biblical times, a chariot is being driven quickly, despite wet weather. Something about Antioch braking.

Adrian Stovold, adrian_stovold@yahoo.co.uk

Something about the Equestrian events in the paralympics, to do with three-legged horses, or perhaps some in huge wheelchairs (is this too tasteless?)

Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

something about having a really bad curry and having ‘Nan flashbacks’
Matthew DeAbaitua

Keep em coming,

Louis

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YOUR UNFINISHED JOKES:

Something about pigs being treated for burns by being given skin grafts made of streaky bacon.
Or,
A joke where Star Wars, Radio 3 and a porn web site specialising in primates all pool their resources to produce a new movie, featuring a hero known only as Oboe Wank Bonobo.
Anon

Something about giving military colouring books to children who are upset, so they’ve got a soldier to crayon. Or possibly not.
Adam Bowman

Something about the Japanese world cup squad playing a “5-7-5″ haiku formation.
Gregor

The evil Machiavellian criminal mastermind is foiled in his attempt to bring the internet to its knees. ‘Cursors, cursors’
Karen Morden

Something about John Wayne (or should it be Glen Campbell?) smoking too much grass on a boat trip in Germany, and being a Rhine Stoned Cowboy.
Ben Paxton

Something about an astute carpenter who hits the nail on the head. If he didn’t like Jimmy Nail, that would be pretty extraordinary too.
Richard Dance

Something about a helicopter gunship attack on an ancient Greek ruin in Athens called Acropolis Now.
Or,
Something about the quality of aviation safety standards in Biblical times, featuring a character called Conscious Pilot.
Or,
A film concerning the fauna surrounding a man made lake called Reservoir Logs (Mr Beech, Mr Larch, Mr Oak, etc.)
Finally,
A vexing question: do Islamic teddy boys celebrate Ramadamadingdong?
Rob Westlake

One about a short butcher who won’t gamble because the steaks are too high.
Simon Heaney

Something about a documentary about losing religion during childbirth. Children called Faith, Hope and Brenda?
W G MullHolland

Something about the A-Team having their own cookery show with the punchline “I love it when a flan comes together”.
Or,
Something about the A-Team running out of red-necks to fight and going on the dole. BA and Murdoch have to get jobs with the council working on the sewers with the punchline “I ain’t going down no drain fool”.
James Bendle

Something about my dad trying to pass on to me the family ‘All on one site’ golf course and hotel development.”It’s like my parents are trying to give me a complex or something…”
Andrew Sames

Something along the lines of a musical being written about September 11th – called Osama Time Blues. Perhaps one of the key protagonists could take his problem to the United Nations.
Chas Newkey-Burden

Something about a sleepy and vaguely oval-shaped drug enforcement officer who suffers from narc-ellipsy.
James Shaw

Something about seeing a man drowning in a river and throwing him a bottle of Rescue Remedy. This joke would work best when told at a meeting for the chronically nervous.
Robert Paul

Something about a chain of sex shops investing in the London Underground, they’ll be renaming it the Pick-a-dildo Line.
Dominic Forbes

Something about having T R U T H tattoed on your knuckles and then going around punching various people.
Sarah Janes

Something about a porn film involving a threesome between a rodent secret agent, his assistant Penfold and his arch-nemesis Baron Greenback, called ‘Dangermouse Liaisons.’
Rob Walker

Something about being in denial being better then being in de Thames.. or
maybe not…
Steve Denby

Something about a man who truly believes he owns everything he sees and when questioned, constantly states: “Perception is nine tenths of the law,” in a really annoying voice.
Ben Atherton

An exhausted housewife is relieved to hear about ‘the end of irony’.
Lisa Goldstein

Perhaps a gag about a new tv show in which thousands of lazy fathers compete in front of has-been judges for the mantle of Pop Idle.
Chas Newkey-Burden

These need a little work: Alanis Morisette goes into a bar. The barman says “we named this pub after you.” She says “What, Alanis Morisette?”
Or
A white horse goes into a bar. The barman says “Why has Alanis Morisette got such a long face?” The horse says “I don’t know Derek, pint of Staropramen please”
… or something
Marcus O’Neill

Something about having a really bad curry and having ‘Nan flashbacks
Matthew De Abaitua

A remake of Jerry Maguire, with Tom Cruise as an errant art dealer: “show me the Monet” etc. etc. On second thoughts…..
Pat Long

Something about a really apathetic scientist who makes lots of stuff to do with things and works in Generic Engineering.
Ben Atherton

Following on from the Cheeses of Nazareth gag – the best place to get a drink in Israel is the wall of Cherry Coke, arf arf.
Richard Dance

Something about President Clinton coming between two Bushes (President George & President George W)
James Daley

Something about the Equestrian events in the paralympics, to do with three-legged horses, or perhaps some in huge wheelchairs (is this too tasteless?)
or
Jackie Wilson is caught in a “Fatal Attraction” situation where he is being obsessively stalked, and the song is “Your love keeps lifting my ire”
Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

One about the disaffected Lemsip factory workers who plan to go on strike and give their bosses a taste of their own medicine
Chas Newkey-Burden
chas@newkey-burden.com

One about an incontinent old ladies fur wrap that is accidently mistaken for cake mix by an extra from a western so he ends up pissed-stole-whipped, (maybe needs work..)
Bob Harrison
b.harrison@flowstate.com

Something about confusion surrounding the phrase “working class”, meaning either being from a blue-collar background, or a hard working group of pupils in a school. Maybe not.
Jim Blackler
jim_blackler@hotmail.com

Something about a saxophone hire shop where a bloke goes in and says “Can I borrow a tenor?”…
Stanleybabe1967@aol.com

The militant plumber who wants to bring down the cistern
Adam Lay
adamjameslay@hotmail.com

It’s about a group of people that go around taunting areas of outstanding natural beauty and they’re called eco-worriers
OR They might be Irish soldiers with a fear of mice and they’re called
EEK! O’warriors
OR they’re not Irish but they fight bacteria and they’re called Ecoli Warriors
There are probably equally piss-poor gags about Ecu-warriors and ecomdotwarriors, too.

Would the Fool of the Wild Frontier have been Davey Cock-up? And the Minstrel of the Wild Frontier was no doubt called Davey Crotchet and his catch phrase was ‘Back in a minim/minuet’

These are punchlines that need set-ups, if any other readers feel able to help:

‘My god, man, you weren’t supposed to eat it’
‘And she’s the pretty one’
‘Well the pig never complained’
‘It didn’t do that last time’
‘Funny, that’s what last chap said just before he died’ ‘Who said I was drilling for oil?’
‘That’s what the brick is for’
‘Yes, but normally we ask permission’
Kev
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK

Something about a remake of that Patrick Swayze film for the rave generation, Dirty Trancing.
Matthew De Abaitua

Remakes of popular films with one significant difference to the original: the protagonist decides against the life changing decision required to kickstart the storyline. In the remake of Star Wars, Luke Skywalker decides that farming isn’t all that bad; the film turning into a two hour documentary on the difficulties of farming on a planet which appears to be devoid of vegetation (this also makes the rest of the series redundant). Can’t think of any others at the moment.
Richard Smith
Richard.Smith@astrazeneca.com

In Roman/biblical times, a chariot is being driven quickly, despite wet weather. Something about Antioch braking.
Adrian Stovold
adrian_stovold@yahoo.co.uk

Something beginning with: ‘I say, my dogs got no owner’ Perhaps continuing with ‘How does it smell?’ ‘How does what smell?’ Perhaps not.
Miller
matmiller@matmiller.freeserve.co.uk

Chat Show scenarios
1. A chat show host has very bad conversational skills. Guest comes on, they exchange pleasantries, then there’s a long uncomfortable silence. Then they talk about the weather or something. Another uncomfortable silence. With hilarious consequences.
2. Similar thing but chat show host is really shy and daren’t pluck up the courage to ask anything, goes bright red. Possibly star struck, and mouths ‘That’s Tom Cruise!’ (or whoever guest is) to cameraman. Quiz show Standard quiz show begins, but the host is a Del Boy type character who winks and says ‘No questions arsked’, nudge nudge and all that. The contestants find it difficult to proceed.
Craig
cheesyknees@yahoo.com

Something about a chap who worked in a sports equipment making factory, specialising in Tennis equipment, being made redundant and buying the rather noisy machinery to make tennis equipment and continuing the business in his garage, until one of his neighbours got fed up and went round and said ‘Stop making that racket’
Matthew Wintle
matthew.wintle@uk.royalsun.com

A hilarious situation involving someone requiring cacti & receiving bad neck-wear (“cack tie”)? Perhaps not…..
Harley Fidgeon
Harley.Fidgeon@schwab-europe.com

Something about Jeffrey Archer going down… but this time not with a woman. Jenny Tidman
starfightingpolarbear@yahoo.com

A shrimp becomes a troubled and overweight forensic psychologist – obviously a prawn Cracker
Ben Woodcock
marauder_ben@hotmail.com

Where does Emile Zola go to relax?
A J’acuzzi

What do you say if a poet and late show presenter offers you a waterproof sheet?
Ta paulin
Martin Beckford
Martin.Beckford@cabalcomm.com

Something about a model maker who makes models of mountain ranges and tells everyone he scales the highest peaks.

Something about a consumer watchdog champion who is also a naturist, he goes around pointing at his scrotum telling everyone, “Warning! These may contain nuts”…
Alan
alan_e_smith@hotmail.com

A spin on ‘Carol Vordermans Better Homes’ entitled ‘Carol Vordermans Bitter Homos’, where homosexual men discuss relationships gone awry….
atholl.campbell@btinternet.com

Something about cricket from Lourdes
Rachel Johnston
rachyj@altavista.com

Two punchlines:
“And suddenly, his whole wife flashed before his eyes” and
“Sorry love, but I’m not paying a penny for another sixty eight of those.”
Simon Forrester
hairy@gamecampaign.com

This would have been good in 1994 (when morrissey came out with “The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get). The more I see of him, the _______er I get… or perhaps put it on ice until that Manchester movie–24 hour party people or whatever comes out? Has it come out? Or has…?
Grace Kline
GKline@randomhouse.com

Something about St Francis backing away from fights because he’s Asissi
or
Something about Gorillas eating fish and chimps
Jonnie Daniels
Jonny.Daniels@netnames.com

What about: -
Suggestion for TV Program: Changeling Rooms. People have two days to decorate each others accommodation on the Habitat Ring. If they don’t like it at the end they can just bring the old stuff back because the walls/fixtures/fittings were only Odo and his mates.
Ta, Dave Smith
d.smith@bradytrinity.com

A game show about the popular pastime of nictation – Sleekest Wink? Something about the BBC trying to raise its standards by having the cast of Eastenders speak in blank verse slang.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LEEDS.AC.UK

Why did the medium cross the road? To get to the other side/reach the other side or something. But you need to make sure the listener realises you mean a spiritual medium and not just, I don’t know a medium sized garment.
Accordion King Dick Contino
9734047@sms.ed.ac.uk

Inspired by Pete’s one about Monsieur Mange-Tout: Something about Sport Billy (he of the magic tardis-esque bag) flirting with a girl, only it turns out he really *does* have a canoe in his pocket.
cheers Ben
PS. Sorry about the stupid disclaimer.
Ben.Paxton-Crick@ubsw.com

Picasso and Kadinsky in a pub, shots are heard, they rush to the door and Kadinsky asks – “is that Matisse killing doves?”, Picasso retorts “no it’s Klee pigeon shooting”
James Robinson
jamesr@exemplas.com

Young guy goes into freud’s liquor store. the man behind the counter asks to see his id.
or
Middle-eastern dairy products shop: cheeses of Nazareth.
or
Othello done as a comedy, retitled ‘the moor the merrier.’
or
Laundrette for hippies called ‘ethnic cleansing.’
or
Moses fails to part the red sea: you just can’t get the staff these days.
or
Idea for a film: das boot – the musical.
teharrison12@hotmail.com

Theme is ‘Lord of the…’

I think it must be possible to make up something funny about the J.R.R Tolkien Foundation sponsoring proctology awards.
Or
William Golding sponsoring awards for new trouser zip designs
Or
It’s about a scientist who has found some really big and ancient straight lines marked off at regular intervals in a desert somewhere and he tells everyone that it’s evidence of when dinosaurs ruled the earth.
Kev Tansley

This one should be a drawing but I can’t be arsed so I’ll describe it and you can imagine it in your head. Basically there’s a bunch of hookers playing with a model race track, but instead of cars they’re racing little figures of men who used to be clients and we can see the box cover for the track and it’s called – ‘To Scale Ex-tricks’
Or
I’m sure there could be a comedy sketch about a doctor whose sole form of treatment is to say to patients ‘You’re looking well today’ and it’s because he’s using complimentary medicine.
Or the commercial failure of a deja vu pill because people think they’ve already taken it.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LE

Something about a documentary following the search for a hairy half human, half mountain lion, beast living in Tibet. With the whole adventure triggered by the discovery of irregular faeces – Catmando
Or
Something about the current search with a huge electronic net for Nessie �� Gridloch
Or
A new product designed to stop office workers suffering from the trots -Ringbinder
fotheringtonwayne@hotmail.com

There was a joke in the 70′s involving a plane exploding mid air whilst carrying a cargo of spares for Japanese cars , it ended “its rainning Datsun cogs”. It was very funny by the standard of other jokes of the era.
Laurence Wilson
advice@brixton167.freeserve.net

Somethimg about a Swiss admiral and a baby. The baby sucks, sucks, sucks and never fails but I am too tired to figure out the connection with the Swiss admiral.
tivadar@erols.com

A sort of TV detective update of Anna Karenina, but this time it’s Anna Karenina , Coroner.
Tom Bailey.
tomjbailey@hotmail.com

Something about condoms being ribbed for her pleasure and wearing them inside out
millennium_trophy_fans@teeing-off.co.uk

A new magazine comes out that is packed full of stuff you simply must NOT do. The Big Eschew?
Or maybe it is for people who are proboscularly(?) well endowed or suffer from potentially life-threatening onanism: The Big Tissue – this could be more of a constructed-reality game show.

Inspired by Madeleine’s Anne Robinson one: Familiar type of game show where the contestants are made up of Yetis (?), Big Foots, Kate Thorntons… “You are the missing link, goodbye”.
This could also be a series of amusing 48-sheet posters along the M4.

Don’t really know but maybe something to do with female soldiers funded to get breast implants… Women Soldiers who suffer from terrible thrush could maybe get an honourable discharge. Is this tasteless?

PAUL SPRATLEY
p_spratley@hotmail.com

There’s an anaemic man who’s talking to a poacher, or it might be a vet, anyway he ends up putting polecats down his trousers to treat his low ferritin levels.
Or
It’s a film, really and it’s a sci-fi version of the Sound Of Music where the Von Trapps explore the solar ti doh system. Sigourney Weaver to reprise Julie Andrews role and the posters to have the tagline ‘In space no-one can hear you sing’.
Kev Tansley
pscklt@WEST-01.NOVELL.LE

A TV detective series starring David Jason as a curmudgeonly DI who always leaves it a bit too long before going to the toilet for a number two. Title “A touch of Cloth”
Sav
saveloy@another.com

Concerning the American liking for drive-thru things being taken to its logical conclusion with a drive-thru car park
Jamie Milne
james26@hotmail.com

Something ending in “But is it Nietzche or nurture?” (Would it be funnier if it was a Glasweigan saying it?).
Christian Lloyd
3cll7@qlink.queensu.ca

This joke has a punchline, but the rest needs work. Rolf Harris goes for a job interview with a publisher, doing editing or something like that, and when asked what attracted him to this position, says that he likes to “summarise early in the morning…”
Neil Sowerby
neil.sowerby@let-it-be-thus.com

One about a thief in a garden centre, and the line -”hands up, this is some shrubbery”?
tallan@ccgxm.com

Something about a disillusioned proctocologist who was browned-off about his job.
John Millard
john@millard40.fsnet.co.uk

Someone gets a stupid present from Dracula and says “it’s the count that thoughts”
Pipster
pip_walsh@hotmail.com

Something about the Casket Wholesale Centre in my neighbourhood placing an advertisement in The Genocide Quarterly with the tagline, “When a Mass Grave Just Won’t Do.”
Kristina
blachere@pacabell.net

Perhaps not so much an unfinished joke as an unfinished film: someone stranded in the jungle beats the odds and saves himself from deadly mosquitoes by fashioning a net out of a surfeit of dental floss which had mistakenly arrived with his last supply drop and is the only posession he has apart from what he is wearing after a catastrophic mishap… there could also be something about mental nourishment through knitting and such
Mat Wrigley
mat@wrigley.cx

More generation game (inspired by MDA’s contribution)
How about ‘The Next Generation Game’ – where members of the public have to battle to death with the Klingons?
Or the CSA Generation Game where an absconding father has to try and pick out his own child from a selection going past on the conveyor belt?
Kev Tansley
pscklt@west-01.novell.leeds.ac.uk

Perhaps you need to say this one out loud:
Bloke arriving at a dinner party with a bottle of wine: “Hello darlings! I’ve got a lovely semillon for you all!”
Antony
antony@courseofaction.net

How about all the mice in the Underground tunnels being black because they’ve got “soot and mouse diease”?
Rich
richfitz@btclick.com

Something about hotdogs being merely vehicles for ketchup and mustard.
Minkin Brian
stinkinminkin@yahoo.com

There’s a bloke in a pub and his dog does tricks.
The punchline is “Give him a crisp and he’ll let you”
Sid Snake
city@pickles.demon.nl

Something about this year’s Mercury Music award winner being born 10 weeks prematurely, finishing on “badly born boy”.
Two lilliputians set up a film distribution company called 20 centimetre fox.
jandcuk@aol.com

Just wondering aloud here, but what is it that they debate on the smorgasbo(a)rd?
my evil twin
myeviltwin@lineone.net

Something silly about Phil Oakey’s favourite artist: ‘Here come the Miro Man.’ This also works to hilarious effect with ‘I’ll be your Mirror’ by the Velvet Underground.
A game show in which Anne Robinson attaempts to make monkeys assert themselves and stand up for their rights. The monkey who performs most poorly in this task is ‘the meekest chimp’.
Madeleine
mmcneil79@hotmail.com

Similar to Louis Theroux’s suggestion, how about a show featuring the glories of an ancient jewish wind instrument, “shofar so good”
Something like a TV show in which three girls are given different amounts of cash to spend on drugs: the first girl gets a tenner to spend on dope, the second gets a fifty to spend on coke and the third gets a ton to spend on heroin. Provisional title, “She’s Gotta Habit”.
Henry Anderton
henry.anderton@talkback.co.uk

A dinner party game, where everyone drinks a bottle of whisky, and then someone leaves the room and you have to guess who it was.
Andrew
Andrew.shillito@geocapital.com

A not very good idea about having the first non-caucasian James Bond and the theme song being “Secret Asian Man”.
R. Baez
baez_richard@hotmail.com

An all-monkey version of the Beatles that gets split up by Benobo Ono
A scheme that allows people who have commited public acts of stupidity to adopt a new personna – the Witless Protection Programme
A team of singing pachyderms called the Acapellaphants
Sav
saveloy@another.com

One of those TV programmes which show company directors taking on the role of lowly employees for a week. Except, in my version, it’s not for a week, it’s forever. And there are no TV cameras to film their anguished realisation that it’s not just a quick lark for TV…
Brian Dean
briandean@mcmail.com

Something about a sloane version of the generation game. They have to remember all the names of guests who came to their party, who go by on a conveyor belt.
Matthew De Abaitua
xxf89@dial.pipex.com

Perhaps fodder for a one-off sitcom, a programme about bald men entering a quiz show called ‘Who wants to have a million hairs?’
Iain Harrison
iainharrison@lineone.net

Something along the lines of lepers on ice… like the disney on ice extravaganzas of my youth, but starring all your favourite lepers.
Duncan Craig
duncancraig@worldmailer.com

Something about the English cricket team, constipation and not being able to get the runs.
Jon
JonRegw@aol.com

Inspired by the acapellaphants joke:
A Pachydermatologist:
Either a medical specialist in the field of elephantisis, or someone employed to make huge sticky plasters and giant tubes of skin cream.
Phil Hackett
phil.hackett@ntlworld.com

Something about the remake of Gerry Maguire set in the Midlands where Tom Cruise visits an exhibition of French impressionist painters.
John Millard
john.millard@port.ac.uk

Something about sex being the only thing at which I come first.
Nick Reynolds
reynolds@clientfocus.com

A peer of the realm refusing valet parking because he thinks its varlet parking… and… unh… tries to kill the valet. Yeah.
A man who slices the heads and legs off of sheep to make more clouds because he hates sunny days.
Tim T.
denizmuftuoglu@earthlink.net

1. Toy Story 3 made under the rules of Dogme film-making. 2 hours of a pile of real toys not moving. In poor lighting.
2. Richard Gere to star in Being Madeleine Albright. Richard finds a portal into her mind and uses it to try to influence policy and sort out Tibet and that sort of thing. But he only gets 15 minutes at a time. Cue much policy toing and froing. Hilarity possibly ensues.
jfidler@cyberway.com.sg

Q: “What’s the difference between Ann Widdecome and a Little Chef?”
A: [something to do with grassy verges, or the archaic attitudes, dunno].
mattie.alston@kcl.ac.uk

something about a dog with leukemia needing a marrowbone transplant”
rpearson@xpansif.co.uk

you know when you see police vans that say ‘dog section’ on the side? well they are driven by specially trained canines that are dispatched to deal with ‘dog crimes’.
If you look, you can see their heads leaning out of the windows with their tongues out as they drive.
love, danny.xxx
wildfoot@kung-fu.co.uk

Something about a little orphan boy in a stranger’s bathtub in a stranger’s house. The door is opened by the owner of the house, some stodgy old codge. The boy says, while scrubbing his back: Hello, Guvnor! Would you please close the door? Jean_Kang@ama-assn.org

UNFINISHED BUSINESS

I saw a solar powered torch the other day at the Energy Centre in Leicester, so someone has bothered on your behalf, also there was mention of a serial monogamist on the Mid Week programme on Radio 4 this week with Peter Stringfellow as a guest and the next presenter used your Cereal Monogamist joke as the link into his programme… Your influences go further than you imagine! Love, Phil Hackett
phil.hackett@ntlworld.com

LOUIS’ PREVIOUS FAVOURITES

1. Something to do with mathematicians doing too many subtractions and causing a sudden shortage in numbers. The government issues an emergency statement to the effect that ’92′ must be added to the front of all numbers (so instead of counting 1, 2, 3 etc you’ll have to say 92-1, 92-2, 92-3). Certain numbers are especially rare and a captive breeding programme is set up – where numbers are multiplied together! Arf!

Also, how about numbers being recycled, so you can only use a number that you’ve cut out of an old bank statement or computer print-out. Maths text books become like gold dust.

One about Monsieur Mange-Tout (the bloke who eats everything from glass to aeroplanes) being really frightened and literally shitting a brick.
Pete
Pete.diaper@port.ac.uk

1. If Regicide is when you kill a king, what’s it called when you kill someone called Reggie

2. If you don’t leave me alone I’ll call the NepaleseAnything there?

3. I ain’t never gonna be bespectacled Advert for contact lenses, maybe?

4. Doctor in a hurry writes email to patient: V.bad news! U have cancer of the …

AN UNFINISHED ANSWER

Q: If Regicide is when you kill a king, what’s it caslled when you kill someone called Reggie?

A: East End gang warfare
Jason Owen
j.r.owen@livjm.ac.uk

LOUIS’ PREVIOUS FAVOURITE:

Yo yo yo, this issue’s winner is Paul Hamilton’s one about Gene Wilder, excellent.

LT

Gene Wilder, son of Gene Wilde, father of Gene Wildest

Paul Hamilton

 

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