We all love a good cracker joke - but when you've heard the same ones time and time again, they do tend to get a bit old. Luckily for you, there's some new material available - and it's stuff we can all relate to.
For the tenth year running, TV channel Gold challenged the nation to come up with the best topical Christmas cracker jokes, with Will Smith, Liz Truss and King Charles III among the subjects for 2022's funniest quip. Despite the dearth of material this year, the winner turned out to be a classic dad joke about Christmas dinner and members of parliament.
What type of peas ruin Christmas Dinner? MPs.
Other topical stories from the last year used as material were Holly and Phil's infamous queue-jumping, the rising cost of living and Will Smith 's slap at the Oscars.
Gold's top 10 funniest new Christmas cracker jokes for 2022, as voted by the public
- What type of peas ruin Christmas Dinner? MPs
- Why does Kate Bush need to turn the heating off? She's running up that bill
- How did King Charles III sign his Christmas cards to his family? The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
- What's the difference between Liz Truss and a shepherd? One U-turns and the other turns ewes
- Why are Will Smith and Chris Rock not having turkey this Christmas? Because they've got beef
- Why has Santa been banned from sooty chimneys? Carbon footprints
- What crisps do Phil and Holly serve at their Christmas party? Skips
- Why are the Government having problems with their own version of the Christmas Nativity? They can't find three wise men
- What do people heating their homes and wrapping paper have in common this Christmas? Both of them are getting ripped off
- How can you keep your home warm this Christmas? Tinsulation
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Gold challenged the public to send them their original festive gags on twitter which which were shortlisted by a panel of judges led by comedy critic Bruce Dessau. The list was then put to an anonymous public vote of 2,000 brits.
Dessau said: "After another year of ups and downs the British public has delivered the laughs, with this year's modern Christmas cracker jokes covering topics from the rising cost of living to queue-jumping presenters and politicians performing U-turns. Proving that once again we're a nation with an unrelenting sense of humour!"
The top six jokes are included within bespoke boxes of Gold's Christmas crackers, which were presented to this year's winners.
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