What's black and white and red all over? Ask Gyles

I say, I say, I say What’s Black and White and Red All Over? Well if you answered ‘an embarrassed penguin’ or ‘a newspaper’ you wouldn’t be wrong.
But it’s also the title of Gyles Brandreth’s latest book - a fun-packed compendium of some of the best and worst jokes known to man.
The irrepressible Gyles - actor, writer, wit and raconteur - has compiled a dizzying collection of rib-ticklers designed to get readers young and old howling with laughter or  groaning in disbelief in equal measure. There are also a few riddles lobbed in for good measure plus a spot of joke advice to show the best ways of delivering the laughs.
Frankly the advice couldn’t come from a better practitioner. They don’t call Gyles ‘the Master of Funny’ for nothing.
Mind you even he occasionally finds it difficult to navigate the humour by-passes that increasingly seem in evidence in contemporary Britain. Promoting his book on the This Morning TV programme last week he came under fire for a very innocuous and actually extremely funny joke.
The quip: "I'd love to tell you my favourite coronavirus joke. But it'll take you two weeks to see if you get it.” had his hosts both laughing and applauding.
But a few sad souls on social media pitched in saying the joke was both disrespectful and in poor taste. Cue the reactive and trouble-stirring end of the media gleefully following up and you had the makings of a storm in a very, very small teacup.
They all need to lighten up. Maybe buying a copy of What’s Black and White and Red All Over? would help.