This week’s 25 funniest things

The Tory leadership race threw up a new internet game of working out where Rory Stewart will pop up next – and whether opium could explain his videos. Chocolate Digestives made it to number one on the UK’s biscuit chart and the whole “What’s a Jaffa Cake really, though?” row kicked off again.

Twitter kept us all entertained through all of that, offering up all manner of funny stuff, including these 25 things.

1.

I remeber my 1970’s Celebrities in a similar fashion to Henry VIII’s wives:

“Nonce, Racist, Died, Nonce, Racist, Alive”

— Bethany Black (@BeffernieBlack) May 30, 2019

2.

https://twitter.com/joshsternberg/status/1133393100288794631

3.

https://twitter.com/carlyken/status/1133052065264078849

4.

https://twitter.com/ThatEricAlper/status/1133606454391386118

5.

Imagine straining so hard you shat out the 1990s pic.twitter.com/CKxCDFGhmv

— James Felton (@JimMFelton) May 29, 2019

6.

Looks like the costume designer for Sir Roderick the Mod's upcoming tour did a trolley dash through Pat Wicks's wardrobe: pic.twitter.com/UxPE0Xn5zA

— Michael Moran (@TheMichaelMoran) May 29, 2019

7.

https://twitter.com/Home_Halfway/status/1133450337162014721

8.

https://twitter.com/abbycohenwl/status/1134150280050642945

9.

https://twitter.com/AJhasawebbrand/status/1133375500687167488

10.

Me, on my deathbed, telling my husband yet again how to properly feed the cats: pic.twitter.com/cVFDxFPrG9

— Kit (@Zombie_Kitv2) May 29, 2019

11.

Your amateur lion tamer name is your regular name prefixed by ‘the late’.

— paul bassett davies (@thewritertype) May 29, 2019

12.

Woman on the bus: He's got a funny sofa. A mangetout. No that's not it. A menagerie.
(pause)
Her friend: D'you mean a chaise-long?
Woman: Yes.

— Miranda Keeling (@MirandaKeeling) May 29, 2019