The Incomplete Framley Examiner

by The Editors of the Framley Examiner

In 2001, fans of the internet were introduced to scanned pages from spoof local newspaper The Framley Examiner. Packed with humdrum and preposterous news stories, classified ads, local business features and headlines that seemed to have been typed while asleep, it skewered the banal madness of small-town existence, perfectly encapsulating the British national character.

Framley’s strange yet familiar community – stuffed with its own cast, insane geography and rich local history – struck a chord with those who recognised their own home towns in its reflection. The website was loved and shared by an eager public as well as famous fans from Little Britain, The Simpsons and the Cambridge Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (Professor Stephen Hawking was a Framley enthusiast).

Marking the twentieth anniversary of the website's first appearance The Incomplete Framley Examiner combines the pages of the original book, published in 2002, with all the pages published online in the years since and brand new material for a bigger, more luxurious, toilet-proof compendium for the annals of history.

Genres: Humor

227 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 14, 2021

Reviews

[Dan · Rating 4 out of 5]

If I ever have grandchildren and they want to know what it was like in the autumn of small-town print journalism, I'll hand them this book. Also, the classifieds are the funniest things in the entire history of fake newspapers.

[Adam Thomas · Rating 5 out of 5]

“The more we thought about it, the more we realised the secret ingredient was going to be density. Not a joke. Not a page of jokes. A whole newspaper. All of it. And every bit of it - even the weather and the price banner and the planning permission reports - was going to be stupid.”

Such was the vision for the Framley Examiner, here collected in its completely ridiculous surreality.