I like to organise dinner parties where we copy the premise of "Would I Lie to You?" If you're not familiar with this programme, each person reads out a story supposedly from their recent or distant past. The story they read out may or may not be true, and the other guests get to cross-examine the story teller and decide whether or not they believe them. The crucial thing is these stories are a mixture of funny and embarrassing.
Of course I tweak the format a little to suit a DP - we cannot do the "This is My..." round for instance, and spouses cannot interrogate, or vote, on their partner's stories.
Guests send me their true story a couple of days ahead, and I invent an equally ridiculous lie that is both entertaining and plausible. Then both truth and lie go into an envelope which the story-teller draws from: so 50-50 it's a lie. Some of the funniest details of a story come out in the cross-examining - if the story is a lie, the teller has to make up whatever details he can to make it seem plausible. As a teller you get points for passing truths off as lies, and for passing lies off as truths. The others get points for sniffing out the lies and endorsing the truths.
Since I've done this a few times, I'm running out of hilarious lies, since not everything can be recycled. For new lies, I like to draw on weird true stories from friends and relatives. One of my favourites, as an example, was when a friend was forced to run out into the street in her nightie at 8.30 am to retrieve her lacy knickers that were travelling quite fast past the neighbours' houses. The detail is that they had got caught on the back of a hedgehog who then continued on his usual early-morning foraging route. They landed on the hedgehog after she had shaken her counterpane out of the window after a very very late party, not realising there was underwear on there... the knickers wafted down to the flowerbed below where the hedgehog like to browse.
So this is where I need your help: new, hilarious stories. Things that may have happened to you, or to someone you know. Goodness knows we all need the odd amusing distraction these days.