Mike Haskins is a professional joke writer who has written TV and radio material for just about everybody - Griff Rhys Jones and Mel Smith, Simon Pegg, Graeme Garden, Steve Coogan, Mitchell and Webb and Smack the Pony. His other publications include The Old Ones are the Best, Man Walks into a Bar and our very own When in Rome.

Stephen Arnott is a prolific journalist and writer whose previous books include Laugh, Cackle and Howl, Peculiar Proverbs and Now Wash Your Hands.