Toby Park and Aitor Basauri in the oldest surviving comic drama in the repertoire.
photo: manuel harlan
In an entertaining recent BBC Radio 4 series, Ian Hislop’s Oldest Jokes, the editor of Private Eye collected some of history’s most superannuated humour, starting with the sixth-century Vatican rib-tickler in which Pope Gregory punned in Latin that the English were “not Angles but Angels”.
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