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23 Things That Actually Happened In 2016

2016, the year that made Brass Eye look like the real news.

1. That morning in June when weeks of Brexit campaigning finally caught up with Britain.

This really, really, really, really happened.

2. Police entered a sandcastle competition with a sculpture of a murdered woman (with a spade in her back).

3. Lindsay Lohan apologised to the English town of Kettering for breaking a promise to turn on its Christmas lights.

Kettering wish I could be with you today sending all my ❤️. Happy holidays!!

But on the plus side, she did find out where Kettering is.

4. Nigel Farage said, hours after the referendum result, that he could not guarantee that £350 million a week would be spent on the NHS instead of the EU.

WATCH: @Nigel_Farage tells @susannareid100 it was a 'mistake' for Leave to claim there'd be £350M a week for NHS https://t.co/JNkl5k8IlK

5. Millionaire UKIP backer Arron Banks argued with noted historian Mary Beard about the ~real~ reason the Roman empire collapsed (he said it was immigration).

6. Along similar lines, UKIP's only MP also took on scientists who said the the moon causes tides (it does), saying they are actually caused by the sun (they aren't).

@Nightingale_P @DuncanWeldon actually it's the gravitational pull of the sun. The moon's gravity does Spring / neap tides

Take back control!

7. An Englishman found himself embroiled in the most quintessentially English story of modern times possible.

8. Justice secretary Liz Truss said barking dogs were stopping drones from flying drugs into prisons.

9. Princess Beatrice cut open Ed Sheeran's face with a sword while pretending to knight James Blunt at a party in her dad's home in Windsor.

10. Ken Livingstone hid from journalists in a disabled toilet after saying Adolf Hitler supported Zionism.

Ken Livingstone is in a toilet and the British news media are camped outside the door asking if he agrees with Hitler.

11. Kanye West met president-elect Donald Trump at Trump Tower to discuss life.

dude in the back looks like he came from the future to try and save Kanye but was too late

Quite.

12. Donald Trump said he didn't need to receive daily intelligence briefings, because he's already "like, a smart person".

13. A Tory MP said the BBC should bring back playing the national anthem at the end of every day, to honour Brexit.

14. The wife of an adviser to Vladimir Putin dressed up in a concentration camp uniform to perform a Holocaust-"inspired" routine on what is basically Russia's version of Strictly Come Dancing.

15. Former deputy prime minister Lord Heseltine was forced to deny he'd killed his mum's dog.

Possibly greatest BBC Copy headline of all time #heseltine

16. Nigel Farage and Donald Trump hung out together in a gold lift.

17. Chris Grayling, the secretary of state for transport, knocked a cyclist off his bike with the door of his ministerial car.

18. Wonder Woman was made an honorary UN ambassador for empowering women and girls.

19. The Daily Mail published an immigration scare story next to a tribute to a very famous immigrant.

ANDREW SACHS WAS LITERALLY A MIGRANT WHO CAME TO THE UK

20. Sky News' Martin Brunt walked into a church and then... Well, this happened.

This is actual sky news and not a spoof

21. A man who voted for Brexit told the BBC hours after Leave won the EU referendum that he was "shocked" the country had voted for Brexit.

22. A woman told ITV News the day after the referendum she was "disappointed" with the result, despite, um, also voting Leave.

23. And finally, this happened. Whatever the hell it is:

I can't believe I've just watched this exchange which apparently went out on national television. https://t.co/HdGbMd5F1x