"Hello 911; I'm in the woods hunting with my friend and he looks awfully sick. I think he's dead"

"You think he's dead? Can you make sure"
::: BANG! BANG! BANG! ::::

"yeah he's dead"

This was voted the funniest joke ever in a poll and could be traced back to Spike Milligan who wrote it. The newspaper article headline was 'Did you hear the one about the writer whose joke was voted the funniest ever and he'd died the previous year?'

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