Fawlty Towers, Monty Python, Blackadder - Britain may consider itself as a bastion of comedy, and the global headquarters of the sense of humour.
The sense of humour behind the uncanny impressions of fellow players and the karaoke performances on YouTube must have annoyed as many of his contemporaries as they amused.
The MP's office said the wording of the Early Day Motion stated that the "the College authorities seem to have suffered a severe sense of humour loss and as a result penalised at least some of the students involved... worse, the College librarian has been sacked as a result of this incident for which the librarian bears no responsibility".
The good news is that those with a sense of humour are winning the war (see below).
Presenter Bruce Forsyth was drawn into the row after he said people should have a "sense of humour" about the incident.
At each of my encounters with the Archbishop, I had the same sense of wonder at his sense of humour and mirth even when dealing with tough problems such as human rights violations.
In general, the less democratic the government, the less developed its leaders' sense of humour.
Polls conducted by his team of researchers suggest that, despite suspicions to the contrary, many different cultures do share a common sense of humour.
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He was popular with the pupils, he was also popular with the staff, he had a wonderful sense of humour.
However, the DoJ, whose lack of a sense of humour is generally comsidered a feature rather than a bug, may prove a tougher foe than 15 million Xbox antagonists.
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From her first incarnation as head of statistics (she had read maths at the University of London) through her time as finance editor and then mastermind of the newsletter Financial Report, she showed grit, feistiness, a disarming sense of humour and an affection for bone-dry La Ina sherry.
Her character leapt off the page: impetuous, pugnacious, fiercely intelligent and irreverent, with an indomitable sense of humour, moral passion and integrity that would never desert her throughout the ordeal that awaited her.
In addition to their buildings, the people of Odessa have also preserved a sense of humour that goes back at least to Babel's day.
One might think that those droll little witticisms that Siri sometimes comes up with a the result of a machine intelligence gaining a sense of humour.
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Should he care to try, Mr Lamy will need all the finesse he can muster if he is to pull off the political trick of delivering radical reform without the appearance of it and more than a dash of Mr Prodi's sense of humour.
As long as you prove you are competent at the job and you've got a reasonable sense of humour, you will fit in.
On the outside, you see affability and a good sense of humour.
Captain Douglas Brain, who was with Sapper Smith at the time of the incident, paid tribute to "a man who truly lived life to the full, with an unrivalled wit and a wicked sense of humour".
His chronicle of the Anglo-American campaign in North Africa, which lasted for just seven months of 1942 from the first inauspicious landings in French Morocco to the Axis defeat in Tunisia married together official accounts, private diaries, letters and statistics with narrative flair, humour and a deep sense of the epic.
David Blunkett, the pensions secretary, has eulogised England's landscape, sense of humour and radical traditions.
To help finance its ambitious expansion, the airline could still do with a wealthy partner (with a good sense of humour).
M. had a sense of humour, even if he was capable of telling the same anecdote three times in 15 minutes.
With her artist's eye, her self-deprecating humour, her talent for spotting the absurd and her palpable sense of outrage, Humbert was an irresistible companion, who offered a riveting day-by-day account of the genesis of the Resistance.
Mr Danto, a jolly, bearded man with a self-deflating sense of humour and an old-fashioned taste in clothes, is the last sort of person you would think of as an authority-figure in the world of contemporary art.
The name seemed to suit his engaging personality, his love of life and his rough sense of humour.
Constantine, who will be a guest at the royal wedding, described William as "straightforward, honest, hardworking and never losing his sense of humour".
With a total population of about 650, the small, three-valley community of Solcavsko is well-known in Slovenia for its characters and its particular sense of humour.
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