The Five Best Puns from U.K. Pun Champion Attila the Pun

It’s not at all surprising that England of all countries would have a national pun competition. That kind of humor is so ingrained in English culture that even Shakespeare once wrote a story entirely about puns — it was a play on words.

Comedian Lee Brace goes by the stage name of “Attila the Pun” when he competes in the yearly U.K. Pun Championships, and the conquering king of wordplay took home the gold in this year’s competition at the Leicester Comedy Festival last week. The one-liner wonder said of his love for the game, “I like how simple puns are, and I just like the wordplay really. I like the fact they can get a groan from the audience.”

We set a few of Attila the Pun’s prize-winning groaners to free-to-use photographs because, unlike the English, we don’t care for royalties.

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