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Britain's Oscar for wit goes to... Irishmen! OSCAR WILDE.

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From: The Daily Mail (London, England)
Date: 20071015
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Byline: Dan Newling

AS A nation we've known all along that we have the wittiestraconteurs... now our neighbours across the water are getting the message too.

When the British decided to conductasurveyintothe country'sgreatestwitstwo undoubted humorists hit the top spots - the only trouble was, they wereboth Irish.

Oscar Wilde beat a host of his adopted Englishmen to headthe chart, while another proud Irishman, Spike Milligan, beat the rest.

Wilde was delivering barbs even on his deathbed when he quipped: 'Either thosecurtains go, or I do'.

But the Irishman ...

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