Read "Irish Wit" by Seán McCann, published by the O'Brien Press in 1968. Some brilliantly funny Irish witticisms in there.

When the henpecked husband died and went below, he immediatelt started throwing his weight around and giving orders to everyone. "Say, fellow," roared Satan, "you're acting as though you owned this place."

"I do," says your man, "me wife gave it to me while I was on earth."