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Eye, eye, a blinking good Tim Vine joke

Tim Vine
Top that … award-winning comedian Tim Vine. Photograph: Sarah Lee for the Guardian

Tim Vine won joke of the year at the Lafta awards yesterday for his gag "Conjunctivitis.com – that's a site for sore eyes" (Daily Telegraph). No point attempting a pay-off line after that, but Vine did reveal that the word for a compulsive punner is "paronomasiac".

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