Unusually this was read alone by my grumpy opinionated husband, which means that we had a couple of weeks listening to extracted particularly funny sections read aloud during any time we sat down together. This is very much his sort of thing, having fun at the expense of everyone else (although we laughed because we could see him in these pages ). Kept him relatively quiet for hours so worth the price of the book. Will be buying more of these books for his Christmas stocking.

I have followed The Daily Mash for years so I was very excited to read this. and I thought was a very funny read overall as it had many great one liners.

I laughed a lot as it makes fun of people from every social class, social sphere, and political leaning.
My favourite were the part about the Guardian blind date and the woman who want to be married to a plumber.
I agree with the plumber and read the Guardian.
It's smart, sarcastic, and it's as informative a sociology essay but more funny
Highly recommended.
Many thanks to the publisher for this ARC, all opinions are mine

I'm a long time fan of the Daily Mash, a comedy website that posts short satirical takes on the day's news, and it's related TV series, 'The Mash Report'. It's left leaning/liberal in perspective, British, and probably most relevant to the 'Millennial' generation in terms of the references,

This book is a collection of Mash articles related to the topic of the British class system - although that brief is fairly widely interpreted. As you'd expect the stories are funny - some funnier than others. Certainly it's more consistently funny than a lot of 'humour' books on the market. I'd compare it to the 'Private Eye' annual or one of the annual books of cartoons some newspapers publish.

If you are a subscriber to the Mash website, then you will have read a lot of these before (maybe all of them - my memory isn't good enough to be sure) which does reduce their impact. As such I wouldn't buy it as a gift for someone who already reads the website, but it would make a good Christmas present for someone who doesn't.

They seldom make comedy books about just one subject these days, on account of not many people being funny enough any more. Here, however, we have a perfectly one-note comedy book on the British class system, and we've probably not had the like since George Mikes first started out. Here is all the gamut of British class, from those who have it, to those who have it and regret that (the posh school inmates talking perfect wiggah), to those that thought they had it until it was proven that watching "films" was different to watching "film". Builders detect it in your voice and hoik the price up, a faux pas with the crochet toilet roll cover leads to suicide, people who pronounce 'pain au chocolat' the French get a permanent label as hoity-toity and even a lobster turns up to lament about being sold in Lidl.

For those out of the loop, The Daily Mash and the Mash Report is a generally lefty, none-more-dry fake news creation, and the script room is strong enough and intelligent enough to be able to rinse anyone in any number of ways. As a result this really shouldn't be found boring anybody – the topic is always class, as I say, but the ways it is attacked are numerous, all the posh names, social references and suchlike are spot on, and the whole never gets repetitive. I defy you to name many stand-ups who would know to refer to that one with the eyes in "Upstairs, Downstairs" as one of the posh bints that would still turn you down even when real.

And if you really are out on a loop, then yes, Britain has always, does, and probably always will, really care where you shop, what university you went to, where you sit on an airplane, and what your opinions about the country's biggest pub chain is. No class will thank you for boasting about owning this, but you will have to thank yourself for the purchase, for it's great fun. It is, essentially, sweary hyperbole, but classy with it. Now, you'll have to excuse me – I'm off to Waitrose...

A mildly funny, but repetitive pot shot at classes - perceived or otherwise.
Fairly annoying to read since the text omits all “fl” and “fi”: ofce for office, rufing for ruffling.

Six ways it's cool to be poor according to people who aren't. Scholarship children trotted out at Open Day to perform like dancing monkeys. Everyone in squat has trust fund.
If the prospect of an entire book filled with class-orientated comedy news stories with headlines like the above tickles you, then this collection from the Daily Mash comedy website could be for you. For me, it was mostly quite good but a whole book of it was a bit too much.

Thank you to NetGalley and Michael O'Mara Limited for this ARC.

I love the Mash Report and find it very funny so was certain I would enjoy this book.

It looks like The Daily Mash is not the same thing even though it shares writers. It goes on and on about just one topic: class, and while some observations are very astute and funny and all classes are equally roasted (which is a contradiction in terms), it suffers from repetition. Over 200 pages of this is just too much for me.

Astutely observed, takes no prisoners and is absolutely hilarious with plenty of laugh out loud moments. This delivers line after line and on varied topics. I probably identify as somewhere right down the middle so could make use of looking both up and down and chuckling at the full set because I’m including laughing at myself. This is absolutely packed with head nodding moments about growing up and living in Britain and there are so many tongue in cheek moments. I wouldn’t advise reading this if you’re easily offended or uncomfortable with your status in life but if you’re good at not taking yourself too seriously then this is right up your boulevard. My copy was slightly blighted by an unfortunate affliction whereby any ‘fi’ or ‘fl’ combinations within words were missing in action. This, however, was quite good fun to fill in the blanks (read ll in the blanks) and it was as though I was reading the whole thing in an elitist secret code. Shhh. A great read.

Had some funny bits (sentences or paragraphs, and at times, the whole idea), and does not spare its satire on any group or class of the society.

Mildly humorous, but doesn’t really make you laugh. It would make a good stocking filler gift but I wouldn’t actively choose to buy it for myself to read

Love this fun and cheeky guide to British social
Classes. I think it would make an excellent gift for those Anglophiles out there wanting to know a bit how British culture works .