Siblings, seamen, and taking the piss: the surprising history of Liverpudlian humour

Siblings, seamen, and taking the piss: the surprising history of Liverpudlian humour

You don’t need to be familiar with the long history of professional comics from Merseyside – Ken Dodd, Jimmy Tarbuck, Kenny Everett, Alexei Sayle, Paul O’Grady, John Bishop, Chris McCausland, the list goes on – to know that here in Liverpool, we have an unusually high concentration of prize wits. Pick a Liverpool pub on any given day and you can meet people even funnier.Of course, humour is subjective. A lot of people in Liverpool think they’re …