Bradford greeting card maker Hallmark Cards is celebrating Father’s Day by publishing the world’s first joke books made-up entirely of dubious “dad jokes”.

Over the past three weeks Hallmarks’ online personalised card service has been asking UK fathers to submit their ultimately bad “dad jokes” as part of its build up to Father’s Day on Sunday.

Thousands of dads, including celebrities Phil Tufnell and Chris Evans, have got involved via Hallmarks’ Twitter feed with their best, or worst, efforts.

Hallmark, which has its UK headquarters in Bingley Road, Heaton, has come up with the definitive 50 which will be published on its blog as well as turned into a special range of Father’s Day cards next year.

John Taylor, of Hallmarks Cards online, said: “Dads often get a rough ride from their friends, children and wives who poke fun at them for wearing terrible clothes, being generally uncool and most importantly, telling terrible jokes.

“But at Hallmark we think this is what makes our dads so special, and the joke book is all about celebrating this.

“We’ve had a lot of fun going through the entries which range from bad to absolutely terrible, with everything in between.”

The gag put forward by Phil Tufnell, England cricket’s former ace spinner turned TV presenter, was: “What do you call a woman setting fire to her credit card bill? Bernadette.”

While DJ and TV presenter Chris Evans offered: “What’s red and invisible? No tomatoes.”

Other jokes featured in the book include: l Two fish in a tank, one said to the other, ‘how do we drive this?’, and l What do you call a flying policeman? A helicopper.

Dads in Bradford city centre yesterday offered their own bad jokes.

Father-of-two Dale Wood, 26, of Canterbury, was in the city centre with his eight-year-old daughter Faith.

His joke was: “How come you can’t get drunk at a JLS party? Because you only get one shot.”

Meanwhile his pal, father-of-two Wayne Fowler, 26, of Wyke, Bradford, who was in town with his two-year-old son Logan Marshall, came up with: “How do monkeys cook sausages in the jungle? Under the gorilla.”