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Via Dead-Frog comes word of a new website which aims to promote tourism in Merry Olde England(e) by emphasizing its rich comedic history. Comedy England is your guide to a wide variety of locations sure to be of interest to the anglohumo(u)rophile, including such tourist traps as the setting for The Titfield Thunderbolt, the Brighton statue of Max Miller (known as the 'Cheeky Chappie'), and Camber Sands, which of course was the backdrop for Carry On Follow That Camel.

I know–honey, cancel that trip to Hawaii!

Anyway, if you'd like some comedy landmarks to go with your bangers and mash, be sure and take the tour, which is rumored to include such further highlights as:

  • The Guys Who Are Reminiscent of (But Cheaper Than) John Cleese Retirement Home
  • Prince Charles' favorite whoopie cushion
  • The Wee School o' Exaggerated Scottish Accents
  • Eddie Izzard's girdle-mender
  • The Center for Research into Sped-up Benny Hill Pursuit Disorder (a disease that disproportionately strikes young women in their underwear)
  • Stratford-on-Avon, where Shakespeare wrote many of his beloved comedies, although it turns out that in Shakespeare's time "comedy" meant "not funny"
  • The exact spot where Rowan Atkinson made that face for so long that it stuck that way
  • The set for the failed Fawlty Towers spinoff, ¬°Manuel!
  • Evelyn Waugh's secret box of porn
  • The Larch
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