jokes

The joke’s on us

26 August 2023 9:00 am

The award for the funniest joke at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe was won by Lorna Rose Treen, with this: ‘I…

Where’s the joy gone?

2 January 2016 9:00 am

Britain seems to be suffering from a dearth of lightheartedness

Woody Allen and Diane Keaton in Manhattan

Love, loneliness and all that jazz

26 September 2015 8:00 am

Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg), the prolific, Oscar-winning auteur, New Orleans-style jazz clarinettist, doyen of New York delicatessen society,…

Jokes? Prayers? Fables?

12 April 2014 9:00 am

One of these is by Lydia Davis, acclaimed American writer. One is not. They are whole pieces, by the way,…