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The Magic Behind How Christmas Cracker Jokes Are Tested

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Gold Christmas crackers on orange background.

My particular brand of Christmas Cringe is that I love Christmas cracker jokes. They make me laugh out loud, I delight in the groans from my family as they’re read out and I even mentally store the best ones for retelling in the new year.

I just bloody love them.

Plus, honestly, if you don’t laugh at them, I just assume you’re playing it cool and are internally laughing as hard as I am.

How Christmas cracker jokes are tested

I will be honest here, I just assumed somebody was employed to make jokes for Christmas crackers, birthday cards, etc, all year round.

Apparently this is not the case which, uh, makes sense.

In fact, Stephen Menon and Laurence Cawley, two journalists at the BBC, went to do their own investigation........

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