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Top 10 Christmas Cracker Jokes 2025 Featuring Celebrity Traitors and Oasis
Ben Smith from Essex won the 2025 UK Christmas cracker joke contest with a royal-themed joke voted best by 2,000 adults in a national competition.
- This year, Ben Smith of Chelmsford, Essex won the U and Gold top cracker joke contest with `Why is Prince Andrew not writing any Christmas books?`, a joke linked to royal controversy.
- King Charles III removed titles in late October after allegations in Virginia Giuffre's memoir; Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor faces ongoing questions about Jeffrey Epstein while denying wrongdoing.
- U and Gold's contest, run for 13 years, shortlisted entries by a panel before a public vote of 2,000 British adults awarded the winner a £1,500 prize, a hamper, and bespoke crackers.
- Two entries about Andrew made the top ten, while the shortlist also mocked Nigel Farage and TV stars, with Gerald Casey of UKTV saying it's "another fantastic year of hilarious entries".
- This year the seasonal top-10 list was released ahead of Christmas as pulling a cracker remains a decades-old ritual that brings families and households across the UK together, with the slip of paper inside crackers adding to the fun.
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor quip crowned best Christmas cracker joke
Not only has former Prince Andrew had a pretty bad year but he’s also the punchline for the year’s most popular Christmas cracker joke, to top things off. Having been stripped of his title and privileges, he now tops the list of the best Christmas cracker joke. The British public voted in the annual competition which is commissioned by the comedy channel U&Gold. “Why is Prince Andrew not writing any Christmas books? He hasn’t got any titles!”, i…
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