Jokers in the Pack - TIME Jokers in the Pack Russell Brand joins the Royal College of Nursing during the Britain Needs a Pay Rise March. Britain Needs a Pay Rise - organized by the TUC in central London. The TUC holds 'mass demonstration' in protest at what it calls 'the biggest squeeze on incomes since Victorian times'. Andrew Parsons - Images/Polaris Anti-Establishment funnymen are making political inroads in Europe - and that's no laughing matter The humorist Will Rogers campaigned in the 1928 U.S. presidential election with a simple pledge: to resign if he won. He lost. Jokers these days make no such promises. Saturday Night Live alumnus Al Franken has held a seat in the U.S. Senate since 2009. And across the Atlantic, politics has taken a funnier turn still.