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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Jim Waterson

Truss, Holly and Phil and MPs inspire UK’s best Christmas cracker jokes

Christmas Cracker in a pile on a white background
Cracker manufacturers rarely update jokes and keep the same ones for decades – only removing those judged to be offensive. Photograph: stuartbur/Getty Images/iStockphoto

Jokes about Phil Schofield, Liz Truss, and the cost of living crisis are among the best contemporary Christmas cracker jokes selected by the British public in an annual poll.

The vote asked members of the public to vote on a shortlist of 10 modern jokes considered as being worthy of inclusion in a cracker. In keeping with festive tradition, the jokes are more likely to elicit deep groans of despair at their attempted wordplay rather than a sincere cackle.

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