British authors are rather famous for their puns and play-on-words - Terry Pratchett and Douglas Adams come to mind.
Currently, on the digital radio station BBC Radio 7, you can listen to a show called Another Case of Milton Jones, in which most of the dialog does come in the form of puns.
This entertainment is not for everyone. It's British, and a lot of the jokes and references might not make any sense if you're not familiar with the British and the British sense of humor, as well as British landmarks, attitude toward the French, etc.
I confess I didn't like the show as much as I thought I would, but some of the puns were clever.
(The Bolivian president is getting kind of stroppy (angry) so Milton Jones opens a door and pushes him into a vast section of wet cement. "I hope I haven't set a precedent" he says. Concrete "sets" when it dries.)
There's a new episode once a week, on Wednesday, and the preceding episode is available to listen to for the entire week.
Check it out at:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0076tqb
(You'll need to visit it via your computer, as you can't hear the audio on a Kindle. Just click on the red "Listen now" text - it doesn't matter what time of day you try to listen to it, it's always there!)
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