 Along with reports of events, executions, ballads and verse, they also contained jokes.Only one of many broadsides archived in the Harvard library is described as "1706.Grinning made easy; or, Funny Dick's unrivalled collection of curious, comical, odd, droll, humorous, witty, whimsical, laughable, and eccentric jests, jokes, bulls, epigrams, &c. With many other descriptions of wit and humour."