
Taken from Best Upper Crust Jokes by Edward Phillips (1974)
Don’t see much of Chauncy de Pugh these days, old boy .’
‘ No—he’s become a tremendous snob since he succeeded to the title.’
‘What’s that go to do with it ?’
‘ Well, he refuses to travel in the same car with his chauffeur’.
Noticing that his friend had a very handsome-looking red setter with him, the first nobleman said, ‘ I say, old chap , you’ve got a new dog!’
Yes, relied the second, ‘ I got him for the wife, actually.’
‘By jove, said his friend. ‘ That was a damned good swop.’
Did you hear the one about the very rich aristocrat who bought his son a slum?
He wanted him to have the things he’d missed when he was a child.
A prospective Tory candidate for Parliament was addressing a constituency meeting and was being continually interrupted by a Socialist heckler.
‘ Let me ask you a question’, shouted the heckler.’ Have you ever earned a penny by the sweat of your brow?’
‘Certainly not, answered the nobleman. ‘Our family never perspire ‘.
Remind you of a certain member of the Royal Family ?
Did you hear the one about the neighbourhood that’s so high-class, when the children write rude words on garden walls, they’re in Latin ?
Remind you of a certain former Tory MP ?
An old lady was explaining her duties to the new maid.
‘ Now from time to time’, she said, ‘ you will have to help the butler upstairs’.
‘ Oh, that all tight, ma’am, said the maid’. ‘I like a drink myself occasionally’.
An English nobleman registered at an hotel in Mexico. The receptionist, looking at the register, said pleasantly in English, ‘Ah—-you are a foreigner.’
‘Certainly not’, said the nobleman. ‘I’m English !’
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