David Pleat stunt, merely one of many

This won’t take long, indeed, it’s so depressing we will be glad to get through it and move on. Like many men of my vintage, I have a limited selection of jokes, yet despite that, they are all proven winners. Most are based on me being cheap. For example, ‘Have you got a pen?’ is greeted with, ‘I can sell you a pen’, ‘Come and sit in the garden, the cha…