25 Sep Yours Irreverently – August 2024

Top gags from the Fringe

Edinburgh’s annual Fringe is the biggest arts festival in the world and takes place every August – for 2024 it comprised 3 317 productions across 262 venues and 51 446 performances! Here are some of this year’s top-rated one-liners from stand-up comedians....

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – May 2024

Add a single word, ruin a song

This columnist is fan of BBC Radio 4’s wonderful comedy show, I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue, which sometimes includes this game: ‘Ruin/improve a film/TV series/song title by adding one word’. Enjoy these chuckles...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – March 2024

Profoundly irreverent takes on life

The ladies of Twitter (now X) serve some brilliant and succinct wit. Some latest samples from the Huffington Post’s regular tweet columns:

gen @genmxn: ‘I’m an American married to an Aussie. Can confirm their insults are creative. My husband once told me I was bitchier than a vegan crocodile.’
Marly @VerbsRProudest: ‘February is like our junk drawer. Got an extra “r” you really don’t need? Throw it in there. An extra day? Toss it into February. Whatever.’

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – July 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! After the honeymoon… Proof that marriage is hilarious, frustrating and wonderful all at once… You call it OCD. I call it, ‘Put the...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – October 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! Old words, new meanings #2 Following on from last month’s column, some more word fun from the wonderful BBC comedy panel show,...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – January 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! Flying flips #1 Apparently a true story… A crowded United Airlines flight at JFK gets cancelled. A single agent is re-booking a long...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – February 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! The other night I overheard three women talking… Their accent appeared to be Scottish, so I approached them and asked: ‘Hello, are...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – March 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! More female laughs in 280 characters The women of Twitter (X) continue to dole out wonderful humour...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – April 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! More realistic collective nouns An overcharge of plumbersA clique of photographersA whine of teenagersA cacophony of DJsA barf of bulimicsA surfeit of...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – May 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! Two stories for the 2023’s Friend 1: I asked ChatGPT to write a profile for me for Tinder...

25 Sep Yours Irreverently – June 2023

This humour column is compiled by your FOODStuff SA editor, Brenda Neall, for PPM Magazine - some light-hearted stuff that we hope you will enjoy! Flying stories Shortly after a BA flight had reached its cruising altitude, the captain announced: ‘This is your captain. Welcome to Flight...