Tommy Cooper wrote 13 of the 50 best British jokes of all time

Oh, really ... Tommy Cooper wrote 13 of the 50 best British jokes of all time

Who?

These don't seem like great jokes to me, but for the record, here's a sampling of the top 50:

The bus driver says: “Ugh, that’s the ugliest baby I’ve ever seen!” The woman walks to the rear of the bus and sits down, fuming. She says to a man next to her: “The driver just insulted me!” The man says: “You go up there and tell him off. Go on, I’ll hold your monkey for you.”

I went to the doctors the other day and I said, 'Have you got anything for wind?' So he gave me a kite.

I rang up British Telecom, I said, "I want to report a nuisance caller", he said "Not you again".

I was having dinner with chess champ Garry Kasparov and there was a checked tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt.

Slept like a log last night. Woke up in the fireplace.