These are the UK's top jokes so far ... A man goes to the doctor and says: 'Doctor, there's a piece of lettuce sticking out of my bottom.' The doctor asks him to drop his trousers and examines him.

Bob Monkhouse was famed for his quick-fire quips, encyclopaedic memory of jokes and effortless ability to improvise. For years, he jotted down his ideas in ring-bound, maroon books, but was ...

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