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Funny story: London restaurant reduces table-time to six minutes

London restaurant reduces table-time to six minutes

A well-known restaurant in London has announced that the maximum time any customer could occupy a table in their establishment would be limited to six minutes from tomorrow, a huge three minutes shorter than the previous limit. The manager of the...

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Funny story: London auction house sold my £3 umbrella for £75.000

London auction house sold my £3 umbrella for £75.000

A man from Bristol claimed that a famous auction house listed his £3 umbrella as part of its Contemporary British Art auction and managed to sell it to a telephone bidder for £75.000. Mr Porter-Bury visited the auctioneers yesterday morning and at...

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Funny story: Barack Obama to push Pakistan to invade Afaganistan

Barack Obama to push Pakistan to invade Afaganistan

President Barack Obama has unveiled his solution to the Afgan problem during an interview with the CNN. Asked whether the USA can ever be successful in its mission in Afganistan, Mr Obama said that the breaking point would come when Pakistan woul...

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Funny story: Secret email from the Archbishop to Gordon Brown

Secret email from the Archbishop to Gordon Brown

Sources close to the Church of England have admitted today that a secret email has indeed been sent by the Archbishop to Mr Brown. Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury emailed Gordon Brown asking the Prime Minister to consider taxing the C...

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Funny story: NASA to catch diet cheaters

NASA to catch diet cheaters

NASA is making its technology available to catch the slimming diet cheaters. Eight out of ten dieting couples are cheating on their partners by eating secretly and ruining the morale at home because they get fatter however strict would appear thei...

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Funny story: World's first Opium Exchange to open in Kabul

World's first Opium Exchange to open in Kabul

President Hamid Karzai of Afganistan held a press conference yesterday to announce the world's first Opium Exchange to open in Kabul later this year. President Karzai said that regulating the market would be the best way of ending corruption in A...

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Funny story: Afghanistan top exporter of Corruption

Afghanistan top exporter of Corruption

Corruption has become a major export item for Afghanistan. Sources close to the UN have confirmed during a private dinner party at London's Dorchester Hotel that it is hard to resist corruption from Afghanistan as the product is so generously package...

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Funny story: Obama asked to resign

Obama asked to resign

The Association for Black Continuity (ABC) asked President Obama to step down immediately to secure the chances of future black candidates to be elected. ABC Vice-President Leroy Washington said that Barak Obama was an android created in a labora...

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Funny story: Couple forced to divorce at the airport

Couple forced to divorce at the airport

A couple who had booked cheap seats with Cheap-n-air to Berlin for their wedding anniversary were asked to pay a surcharge of £150 by the airline company at Luton Airport this morning. The wife was in tears as she was looking forward to this trip...

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Funny story: Half Price Tickets for Train Passengers

Half Price Tickets for Train Passengers

Wikid-Innit Trains have offered a new deal to passengers with a low budget. Those passengers will be able to travel at half price if they agree to turn up at their station one hour earlier than their train is due, and participate in the station clean...

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Funny story: Oxford English Dictionary has now 111 words

Oxford English Dictionary has now 111 words

We had reported earlier this week that Oxford English Dictionary had been rewritten and redesigned offering an up to date and real language database. The latest edition published this morning is again only 15 pages thick but contains one new word...

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Funny story: Woody Allen walked out of the Church of Scientology

Woody Allen walked out of the Church of Scientology

Woody Allen walked out of the Church of Scientology. He has officially denied any association with the church saying that he has nothing to do with church or science and that he had walked in the building mistaking it for a new brothel. Allen exp...

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Funny story: Farting reaches danger levels in the EU

Farting reaches danger levels in the EU

The European Commission is proposing new levels of total allowable fart (TAF) for each member state of the Union. The proposal is based on scientific advice from the Carbon Control Group CCG about the level of farting in the EU reaching dangerous lev...

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Funny story: Windows 7 is a virus

Windows 7 is a virus

Microsoft has released its new operating system Windows 7. Here are a few tips on what to look out for. Step 1: Can you upgrade? For starters, you need to check with your GP whether you are fit to cope with a system upgrade stress which proved rather worrying last time you upgraded from XP to Vista. Your GP may advise you to stay put instead of risking a permanent damage to your brain for th...

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Funny story: Tory woman's affair with a tree

Tory woman's affair with a tree

A Conservative parliamentary candidate faces deselection over an affair she had with a tree more than four years ago. South West Norfolk Conservative Association members are angry Elizabeth Truss did not let them know about the affair. Party lead...

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Funny story: Pilots not on the plane

Pilots not on the plane

The pilots of a commercial passenger jet that overshot its destination by 150 miles have claimed that they were not on the plane. They were having a drink at the airport bar and lost track of time. Air traffic controllers attempted to contact the...

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