John O'Farrell presents over two hundred almost-true news stories from Britain's leading satirical site, including Charity Launches Guide Dogs for the Late and Teenagers on Work Experience Banned from Air Traffic Control.
Remember where you were when you heard that the fifty-year rule was abolished fifty years ago? Or the news that dolphins stop smiling the moment our backs are turned? It's all in this handy book-shaped collection which brings together Britain's most exciting new comedy writers and the talents behind such shows as Have I Got News For You, Spitting Image and Lead Balloon.
From Sainsbury's Launch New Gullible Range to Ryanair to Charge for Emotional Baggage, this hilarious journey through the year represents the very best in topical comedy from the website that the New York Times declared was Britain's answer to The Onion.
'The funniest book of the year from Britain's funniest website,' says TV's Robert Mugabe
'If this book doesn't win the Booker Prize I will personally nut Melvyn Bragg or whichever ponce is in charge this year,' says former soccer hard man Vinnie Jones.
- ISBN10 0385615353
- ISBN13 9780385615358
- Publish Date 6 November 2008
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 11 August 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
- Imprint Doubleday
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English