Our 25 favourite funny tweets of the week

We wouldn’t blame you for feeling a little forlorn in the face of the pandemic and the humidity, and we also wouldn’t suggest for a minute that laughter is the best medicine. If it were, we’re pretty sure Boris Johnson would have claimed the British invented it.

What we do believe is that everybody deserves a break from time to time, and that reading our 25 favourite tweets of the week is a great way to spend yours. Maybe with a cup of tea and a biscuit or two.

1.

If you look around the table, and you can't work out who the idiot is, then the idiot is probably Dave from Accounts.

— Richard Osman (@richardosman) July 19, 2021

2.

inside you there are three women pic.twitter.com/6Ex3KwgX8q

— sarah m. albers ☠️ (@sarahmalbers) July 21, 2021

3.

My brain to the name of the person that just introduced themselves to me pic.twitter.com/dU803a6sc8

— ThickyRicky (@theeRicoTaquito) July 21, 2021

4.

At no point in this headline did I know what the next word was going to be pic.twitter.com/b2D6nEm119

— Jimmy—#SaveSilwan—Rothschild (@Pale_0ntologist) July 17, 2021

5.

Henry VII sitting at his computer thinking up some great tweets. pic.twitter.com/JxFXyXCiWj

— Sooz Kempner (@SoozUK) July 18, 2021

6.

18 years ago I dreamt that my eldest daughter graduated and I wasn’t there. It was the trigger that helped give up smoking. Now, she’s only gone and failed her degree, what a waste of my time.

— Martin Rossiter (@MartinRossiter) July 16, 2021

7.

in my experience the best way to quickly recover from a cold is to spend $47.59 in the cold/flu aisle of your local pharmacy then leave the bag in your car or unopened on the kitchen counter overnight

— Sweatpants Cher🔸 (@House_Feminist) July 22, 2021

8.

I’m in a really bad place at the moment. Not mentally, I just live in the UK.

— Tom Knight (@TJ_Knight) July 18, 2021

9.

JELLYFISH
99% Water
110% Bastard

— trouteyes (@trouteyes) July 21, 2021

10.

I have nothing in common with people who answer “how are you”, with “can’t complain.”

— Brokengirl (@SarcasticSadOne) July 20, 2021

11.

🎵 Ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth pic.twitter.com/MebUXAuHMs

— Friz Frizzle (@FrizFrizzle) July 22, 2021

12.

going back in time and giving this thing a hard slap on the nose with a rolled up news paper pic.twitter.com/J03CTktlri

— ko (@makjako) July 19, 2021