Bye Bye Boris: A Farewell To Boris Johnson, London's Funniest Mayor

All of BoJo's best bits, all in one place.

With a new mayor incoming, Londoners are sadly saying goodbye to a scruffy-haired source of regular laughter who kept us giggling with his clumsiness, grandiloquence and exuberance.

Boris Johnson has given us some truly excellent chuckles over the years, so here's a farewell reminder of some of his best moments.

"Wiff Waff is coming home!"

Speaking at the Beijing Olympics, Boris gave a rather impassioned speech about ping pong and it had the entire world rolling around with laughter.

When he got stuck on a zipline

At an event for the Olympics at Victoria Park, our graceful mayor ended up stuck on a zipwire brandishing two plastic flags, adorned with a silly helmet and a particularly unflattering harness hoisting up his crotch.

When he tackled a small child

BoJo was in Japan trying to drum up some positive interest in London when he decided it would be a good idea to thump a small child while his full body weight. Not quite as vicious as his spear tackle during the celebrity England-Germany football match, but that was before his time as mayor.

When he tripped a small child during a friendly game of footie

Not the most sportsmanlike chap, is he?

When he got flipped off by a cyclist

While opening a new cycle superhighway, one of his fellow cyclists wasn't exactly thrilled to see the mayor riding the other way.

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When he totally failed at playing guitar

It was all about promoting London's buskers, but nobody had briefed him on how a capo works.

His dancing at the London Olympics

Typical dad at a disco.

The brick speech

It certainly livened up the Tory conference that year...

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