It doesn’t take much to bring out the northern men’s working club comic in us. This story was just the trigger.

“I haven’t spoken to my mother-in-law for 18 months.

Ken Dodd

“The wife’s mother said, ‘How would you like to have a chat with me?’.
“I said, ‘Through a medium.’”
Les Dawson

“A man will never be happy while his mother-in-law lives”
Juvenal (First recorded mother-in-law gag – written in the late 1st century A.D.)

“The mother-in-law said she’d dance on my grave.
“Fine by me -I’m getting buried at sea.”
Bernard Manning

“I saw six men kicking and punching the mother-in-law. My neighbour said ‘Are you going to help?’
“I said ‘No, six should be enough.’
Peter Kay