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Side-splitting joke takes Ru to contest final
Stirling Observer
|June 11, 2025
A P1 pupil from Allan's Primary School in Stirling had MSPs in fits of laughter recently at the VoiceBox grand final - a national joke-telling competition.
Ru McCallum had taken part in the contest, organised by the Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists (RCSLT).
The final, which took place at Holyrood, featured 32 pupils from across Scotland, with a regional winner representing each local authority.
Every finalist performed their joke live before an audience of MSPs, families, and supporters. The final followed a nationwide call for entries that saw thousands of jokes submitted by pupils from hundreds of primary schools.
Ru's joke, which earned a place in the final, was: “Why did the banana go to the doctor? Because he wasn't peeling very well!”
This story is from the June 11, 2025 edition of Stirling Observer.
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