Taking its cue from Jerome K. Jerome’s report that from the critical response to New Humour one might have thought that the Empire was in danger, this chapter shows how the New Humour of Jerome, Israel Zangwill, Barry Pain and Robert Barr enacts forms of imperial parody, seeming to belittle its un-heroic protagonists, before using imperial tropes made low and domestic, or domestic tropes applied to incongruous imperial settings, to mock and reject popular ideals of imperial and adventurous manliness. Such manliness is re-cast as a pretence, and irrelevant to the lives of New Humour’s men. The men of Imperial adventure cannot and should not be taken entirely seriously.