Brexit sprout gag is nation's favourite cracker joke

By The Newsroom
Published 13th Dec 2016, 15:35 BST
Updated 14th Dec 2016, 13:37 BST
A Brexit-themed joke about Brussels sprouts beat similar puns targeting Jeremy Corbyn, Roy Hodgson and Sports Direct to the title of best modern festive cracker joke.

The poll by TV comedy channel Gold challenged amateur comics to come up with their own gags, which then went to a public vote.

The winner was from Laura Don, who received a £1,500 holiday voucher for this:

How will Christmas dinner be different after Brexit?

No Brussels.

The best of the rest:

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What do workers at Sports Direct get for Christmas dinner? About 5 minutes.

How do you recognise a Christmas tree from BHS? All the branches have gone.

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.

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Why has Hillary Clinton asked Santa for a 23-letter alphabet? Because she is sick of F.B.I.

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.

Philip looks out of the window on Christmas Eve: ‘That’s some reindeer’ he says. The Queen replies: ‘63 years. Yes, that is a lot.’