Here are a couple of our favourite funnies to get the ball rolling...

BBC: Bristol - Share your joke with Comic Relief

The first two were called Folklore and Fairytale Funnies, published in 2000, Strange Stories for Strange Kids, released the following year.

NPR: 'It Was a Dark and Silly Night...'

The spirited folks at Andrews McMeel have a thing for the funnies.

NPR: The Big Pictures: Best Gift Books 2008

Or did they just read the funnies and do the crossword.

FORBES: Storytelling and Quantum Entanglement: Forbes Staffers, Contributors and Marketers

If you grew up in the 1950s and 1960s, chances are you've seen his work in comics such as Famous Funnies, Buck Rogers, L'il Abner (which he ghosted for Al Capp) and Johnny Comet.

FORBES: Schwarzenegger's Sargent

All this week BBC Radio Bristol has been out and about collecting jokes from listeners across the patch, and the local newspaper, Bristol Evening Post, has been helping too by asking readers to send in their funnies.

BBC: Bristol - Share your joke with Comic Relief