What was British comedian Barry Cryer's last joke?
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A man and his wife are out walking one day when they spot a bloke sitting alone in a bus shelter on the other side of the road
“That looks like the Archbishop of Canterbury over there,” says the woman.
“Go and ask him if he is.”
The husband crosses the road and asks the man if he is indeed the Archbishop of Canterbury.
“F*ck off,” says the man.
The husband crosses back to his wife who asks, “What did he say? Is he the Archbishop of Canterbury?”
“He told me to f*ck off,” says the husband.
“Oh no,” replies the wife, “now we’ll never know.”
The joke revolves around a play on expectations and a misunderstanding. The wife sends her husband to inquire if a man is the Archbishop of Canterbury. Given the Archbishop’s esteemed position, one would expect him to respond politely, even if the answer was negative. However, the man’s rude response of “F*ck off” is unexpected. When the husband relays the response to his wife, instead of deducing that such a reply likely means the man isn’t the Archbishop, she laments that they still don’t have a definitive answer. The humor lies in the wife’s naivety and the incongruity of the situation.