Austin Mitchell’s Grand book of Yorkshire Humour

Foreword by Ian McMillan

Hundreds of 'guaranteed fully organic' Yorkshire jokes and sayings have been brought together in these pages by Austin Mitchell, media personality and politician, as a consolation for the demise of Old Labour and flat 'ats.

Austin comments: 'No other county, country or even continent has so much wit and wisdom as is contained in traditional Yorkshire humour. The county's jokes come out of Yorkshire's native heath and hill, mine and mill, evolved not made. They revolve round the absolute basics of death, disease, defeats at cricket, diarrhoea, debt, depression and the dole.'

Here is a rib-tickling selection of the very best of Yorkshire humour. The foreword is by Ian McMillan, 'Yorkshire Poet Laureate', and the outstanding illustrations are by Bradford artist Stephen Abbey.

WARNING: This book contains material which may be offensive, sexist, racist, ageist, carboniferous, and very Yorkshire. Outside the Broad Acres it should be displayed only on the top shelf.

PUBLICATION JULY 2009

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"A Yorkshire born and bred, Austin Mitchell knows more than a thing or two about the county's particular brand of humour...Austin Mitchell is a renowned raconteur and wit"
Yorkshire Post, Oct 12th 2009
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“The Yorkshire dialect rolls off Austin Mitchell’s tongue with ease. [He] has compiled a selection of jokes and sayings that shaped Yorkshire’s past and present. The result is his Grand Book Of Yorkshire Humour.”
Telegraph and Argus (Bradford), Oct 5th 2009
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"Austin Mitchell’s latest book – The Grand Book of Yorkshire Humour... Mitchell gives readers an insight into what he believes is the unique humour of Yorkshire folk"
Ilkley Gazette, 1st Oct 2009

“a light-hearted collection of anecdotes and jokes in Yorkshire dialect”
Huddersfield Examiner, 2nd October, 2009
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"Nevertheless, even the dourest Yorkshireman will struggle not to let out at least a chuckle or two when they read the MP's new book: Austin Mitchell's Grand Book Of Yorkshire Humour. It is stuffed full, from beginning to end, of classic Yorkshire humour and Yorkshire jokes…There are hundreds of 'guaranteed fully organic' jokes in this pocket-sized, 160-page book. Some of them are just a couple of lines long. Others are much longer, and build wonderfully in the telling."
The Press (York), Saturday 25th July
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"Austin Mitchell: comic genius. I think you'll agree when you've read this book."
Ian McMillan