CHORLEY Olympic cycling champion Sir Bradley Wiggins has landed yet another title — Britain’s greatest living wit.
More than 2,000 British adults were asked to choose from a shortlist of 25 celebrities, excluding professional comedians, to select the funniest person.
The Tour de France champion came top for quips such as the one he made to crowds by the Champs-Elysees, who came to see him become the race’s first British winner.
“We’re just going to draw the raffle numbers now,” he said.
Other jokes included saying after winning Sports Personality Of The Year: “Nan, the cheque is in the post, because you pressed redial God knows how many times.”
London Mayor Boris Johnson came second in the poll, carried out to mark the start of TV channel Dave’s Leicester Comedy Festival.
Crystal Palace manager Ian Holloway, who previously lived in East Lancashire, was third lines like: “Right now, everything is going wrong for me — if I fell in a barrel of boobs, I’d come out sucking my thumb!”
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