I seem to recall that no mummers' play I've seen would be complete without the following joke. Everyone enters with the line "In come[s] I, [name] ...", and several add "... I have been travelling in Italy and Spain" in the "real" version; substitute a local place for "Italy". Eventually someone actually says "Italy", whereupon (s)he is asked "have you ever been to local place?" - "Yes, but it was closed!".

It's generally believed that W C Fields got his version of the joke from England when he toured here as a juggler in 1898. Not many people know that ...

Steve