Puns

The humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasizeor suggest its different meanings or applications, or the useof words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but differentin meaning; a play on words. http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/pun

The Sun newspaper often uses puns for their stories, like the photo on the left is taking the 'mick' as you would say out of Micheal jackson. As he has gone out in his pyjamas they have named the story 'BANANAS IN PYJAMAS' which is saying that he is 'BANANAS', which means crazy, for going out in public with his pyjamas on.

This story is about Elton John and his husband who are known in the media to be gay. The Sun have made the headline of the story 'ELTON TAKES DAVID UP THE AISLE' this is a crude and sexual pun based on slang language. As they have got married they are turning the words into a rude sense.

As me and Issy want to create a tabloid local newspaper I researched Puns as they are mainly used in tabloid papers as you would not see puns in broadsheets as they are more formal. We would like to use Puns in our paper as it is a jokey way of connecting with our audience.