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Write a topical cracker joke and win £1500

James. Updated October 26th, 2016

Calling all pun slingers and Twitter wits!

You have until the 30th October to enter Gold’s competition to give the Christmas cracker joke a 21st Century makeover (and win £1,500 of holiday vouchers).

UKTV channel Gold has announced their annual national competition to find the best modern Christmas cracker jokes – as they challenge the British public to channel their festive funny about all the goings on of the year 2016.

Last year’s competition was the most popular yet, with political pun “Why does Ed Milliband like advent calendars? He gets to open the door to number 10” taking number one spot.

The year before, Jason Orange’s departure from popular boy band Take That was the winner with “What will be missing from Take That’s Christmas stocking this year? An Orange”.

The top 20 modern Christmas cracker jokes were revealed today as the winners of UKTV?s comedy channel Gold?s (which is officially renamed Christmas Gold for the whole of December 2015) competition to find the best new festive funnies. Christmas Gold?s ?25 Days of Christmas? is showing festive TV favourites every night throughout December from 7pm. Copyright: UKTV ? Christmas Gold / Michael Michaels.
 Britons will pull an astounding 300 million crackers on Christmas Day and Gold’s mission is to keep the comedy topical, fresh and fun with new super seasonal gags.

The competition invites the nation to submit their new, original and funny Christmas jokes via Twitter and is open now until 11:59pm on Sunday 30th October 2016.

The wordsmith crowned with first place will receive £1,500 holiday vouchers alongside a veritably Royal festive treat as their joke is including in their own personalised crackers ready to pull on Christmas Day!

 

HOW TO ENTER

Open to all UK residents aged 18 and over, to enter please:

• Tweet a Christmas-themed joke via your personal Twitter account including the hashtag #GoldCrackers

• Gold is looking for modern festive jokes that put a comedy twist on the current news agenda or pop culture phenomenon

• Must be your original content and suitable for a family audience

• The joke entry must not be more than 140 characters, including the hashtag #GoldCrackers • Multiple entries are allowed

• All entrants must follow @GoldTVChannel (so we can notify the winners) – but the @GoldTVChannel twitter handle does not need to be included in the joke entry

For further information on the terms and conditions, please click The best jokes will be shortlisted by a comedy panel and then put to a public vote – with the top ten winning jokes being announced in December.

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