Times Online - Comment Central - Top Ten Communist Jokes

Congratulations Comment Central readers. The results of our Communist joke competition are in and you did us proud.

A copy of Hammer and Tickle will shortly be winging its way to Tom Freeman for the following offering:

1) Three workers find themselves locked up, and they ask each other what they’re in for. The first man says: “I was always ten minutes late to work, so I was accused of sabotage.” The second man says: “I was always ten minutes early to work, so I was accused of espionage.” The third man says: “I always got to work on time, so I was accused of having a Western watch.”

And here are the nine runners-up:

Read the whole thing! They’re hilarious!

But how hilarious is it that The Times sponsored a Best Communism Joke competition? And how hilarious is it that Ben Lewis wrote a book of Communist jokes called Hammer and Tickle? It’s all hilarious!

Except for Communism which is no laughing matter.