Fred Basset by Alex Graham for December 22, 2011
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Transcript:
Well? I don't get it! Ha ha! Ha- I'll take it to work with me! Cracker jokes are an acquired taste!
You guys don’t have Christmas Crackers? Boy is someone missing a marketing opportunity.
Apart from the hat (always too big for kids and too small for adults) and a small novelty item, there is The Joke. By tradition they are (a) totally clean – fit for mixed family gathering but (b) groaningly awful. There is something wrong with one that elicits a laugh rather than a groan.
key – quite so! Have you never seen the headgear of soldiers Trooping the Colour outside Buckingham Palace? Come to that have you never seen the Queen’s hats….