Harry Hill joins the Beano on the hunt for the funniest class in Britain

Beano is on a nationwide search to find Britain’s funniest class, and now comedian and author Harry Hill is to join as a special guest judge. Teachers have until Friday 10th May to nominate their class’ more hilarious jokes to be in with a chance of being crowned the winner.

The top ten gags will appear on beano.com for children themselves to vote on.

The winner and two runners-up will each receive a bundle of Beano annuals comic subscriptions and a special VIP Beano visit, including a joke workshop.

Harry Hill said: “This competition is an incredible opportunity for British kids to release their inner-comedian and let loose their imaginations.

It’s a great way for kids to show they know best when it comes to telling rib-tickling jokes and show the adults how it’s done.”

Mike Stirling, Editorial Director at Beano Studios said: “At Beano we’ve been giggling with kids for 80 years and we are on a mission to spread their much needed humour across the UK.

Jokes are meant to be silly, naughty and imaginative; they are also the perfect way of injecting some much needed LOLZ into the classroom whilst encouraging kids to develop their literacy skills.

We’ve had some fantastic entries so far and we are looking forward to reading more of the best jokes from across the country.”