How will Christmas dinner be different after Brexit? No Brussels.
That joke about post-Brexit Christmas dinners lacking Brussels sprouts was chosen as the funniest in a competition to write the best modern festive cracker gag.
Amateur comedians were challenged by TV channel 'Gold' to submit Christmas cracker classics, which were put to an anonymous public vote.
The winner was submitted by Laura McDon and polled 20 percent of the vote.
Critic Bruce Dessau, who headed the judging panel, said: "One thing the British will always be good at is finding the funny side to almost any situation, and it's no surprise that Brexit featured as one of the dominant topics of this year's jokes.
"But it wasn't all about the EU - there were lots of cracking gags, with this year's news about Sports Direct, BHS and Bake Off also featured in winning one-liners - all of which will hopefully get the Great British public laughing their socks off."
Entries were submitted via Twitter and shortlisted by a panel of judges before being put to a public vote of 2,000 British adults.
The top six jokes were included in boxes of crackers, which were presented to this year's winners. The jokes were as follows...
- I bought my mum Mary Berry's cookbook for Christmas, I tried to get Paul Hollywood's but he'd sold out
- What's David Cameron's favourite Christmas song? All I Want For Christmas is EU
- Why has Hillary Clinton asked Santa for a 23-letter alphabet? Because she is sick of F.B.I.
- What's the difference between the clementine in your Christmas stocking and Donald Trump? Nothing, they're both a little orange
- Why didn't Roy Hodgson go to visit Santa at the North Pole? He couldn't get past Iceland
- Why are Jeremy Corbyn's Christmas cards on the floor? His cabinet collapsed
All of those jokes are terrible and way too political for the Christmas dinner table. At the end of the day, the last thing I want is to debate Hillary Clinton's email scandal, or the problems the Labour Party faces under Corbyn's leadership, whilst I'm scoffing turkey and all the trimmings.
What do they sing at a snowman's birthday party? Freeze a jolly good fellow
That's more like it.
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