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Some People With Jokes

UK television program

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ19650522 ↗
Source-derived summary

Some People With Jokes is a BBC Four comedy series where members of the public tell jokes, first broadcast in 2013 and 2014. The programme is billed with a different title for each episode. It is based on the format of the earlier BBC Four series Old Jews Telling Jokes,

Episodes

The episodes are:

Series 1: Some Vicars With Jokes (two episodes); Some Boffins With Jokes; Some Scousers With Jokes (two episodes).

Series 2: Some Football Managers With Jokes; Some Irish People With Jokes; Some Funeral Directors with Jokes; Some Dog Owners with Jokes.

Christmas Special: Some Santas With Jokes.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Some People With Jokes” is uK television program. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Some, People and Jokes, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2013-07-10. For this dossier, Some, People and Jokes is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “uK television program” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19650522. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013 and 2014.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Some People With Jokes”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Some People With Jokes primary sources, Some People With Jokes archive and Some research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Some People With Jokes”?
  2. Which edition, object, performance or recording is being described?
  3. Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Some People With Jokes” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.