Now we are allowed to go on holiday, I’ve let my wife go with a friend as I have a few hospital appointments due to illness. Before she got on the plane she told me to take special care of our pet Siamese cat. As soon as she arrived she phoned home to ask about the cat. I said, "The cat just died! "
She burst into tears and started to read the riot act to me, “How can you be so blunt? Why couldn't you have broken the news gradually? Today you could have said that it was playing on the roof. Tomorrow you could have added that it fell off the roof and broke it's leg. Then on the third day you could have said that the poor thing had passed away peacefully in the night. You could have been more sensitive about the whole thing! By the way, how's my mother?
I said, "She's playing on the roof!"
A man was driving down a country lane, when a cockerel ran out of a farmyard gate. He couldn't stop and unfortunately he ran over it and killed it. Feeling really bad, he thought he'd better go to the farm. He knocked on the door and it was opened by the farmer's wife. " I'm really sorry" he said "I've just run over your cockerel and killed it. I'd like to replace it". "Well," said the farmer's wife "I suppose you can do as you please. But you'll find the hens in the shed round the back ..."
Shamelessly stolen from the the R4 tribute to Barry Cryer - who'd said it was his favourite joke.