Clement freud funniest joke

Here he is in a clip from , showing just why he was so brilliant - and brilliantly funny - on the year-old programme, talking about the "last resort". Freud, it seemed, never could get enough of lists. Here he is in an edition of Just a Minute recorded in Edinburgh in Much as I enjoy the likes of Ross Noble on the programme today, modern lineups might struggle to match the pedigree of this quartet from , featuring Freud, Kenneth Williams, Peter Cook and Barry Took. I first came across Freud - it was a long time ago - when he cropped up in dictionary corner in Channel 4's Countdown.

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Sir Clement Raphael Freud 24 April — 15 April [1] [2] [3] was a British broadcaster, writer, politician and chef. The grandson of Sigmund Freud and brother of Lucian Freud , he moved to the United Kingdom from Germany as a child and later worked as a prominent chef and food writer before becoming known to a wider audience as a television and radio personality. He was elected as a Liberal Member of Parliament in , retaining his seat until , when he received a knighthood. In , seven years after his death, three women made public allegations of child sexual abuse and rape by Freud, which led to police investigations. He was the grandson of psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud and the brother of artist Lucian Freud.

On one occasion instead of discussing the upcoming Brazil versus France quarter final Sir Clement instead told the above joke. It provoked such gales of laughter at the time that it got us thinking - was this the funniest joke ever told? Of course, there are many elements that have to come together to make a joke truly funny - a risky subject matter and an unexpected punchline help no end - and personal taste plays as big a part as anything else, but we think there is something special about the combination of a slightly rude joke coming out of the mouth of an year-old gentleman. We wouldn't be so bold as to suggest that this is definitely the funniest joke ever told but we humbly submit it for contention.