BBC Scotland A pasta pun has been named the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe as the award returned for the first time since the Covid pandemic. Masai Graham was voted the winner with his gag: "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta." The Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe accolade is voted for by members of the public. It was last awarded in 2019 when a gag about vegetables took the title. Graham also won the trophy in 2016 with his joke: "My dad suggested I register for a donor card - he's a man after my own heart." Reacting to his second win, the West Bromwich-born comedian said: "It's great to see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival back up and running again, it's my spiritual home. "I was so delighted to find out I'd won the Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe award for a second time - I thought: This is getting pasta joke." Comedy critics attended hundreds of shows across the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to create a shortlist of jokes which was voted on by 2,000 members of the public, who were not told the names of the comedians in the running. Now in its 13th year, previous winners of the award include Ken Cheng, Olaf Falafel, Tim Vine, Rob Auton, Stewart Francis (a Canuck), Zoe Lyons and Nick Helm. Dave channel director Cherie Cunningham said: "What a pleasure to be back in Edinburgh. This is Dave's first Joke of the Fringe in three years and the quality of submissions has been incredibly strong. "It's a fantastic top 10 full of newcomers and comedy veterans, and it's a delight to crown Masai Graham as winner once more." Best of the rest: Ten jokes made the 2022 shortlist: 1. "I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta" - Masai Graham 2. "Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it's next-day delivery" - Mark Simmons 3. "My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock" - Olaf Falafel 4. "By my age, my parents had a house and a family, and to be fair to me, so do I - but it is the same house and it is the same family" - Hannah Fairweather 5. "I hate funerals - I'm not a mourning person" - Will Mars 6. "I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that's four hours of my life that I'm definitely getting back" - Olaf Falafel 7. "I sent a food parcel to my first wife. FedEx" - Richard Pulsford 8. "I used to live hand to mouth. Do you know what changed my life? Cutlery" - Tim Vine 9. "Don't knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the jobs you hate" - Sophie Duker 10. "I can't even be bothered to be apathetic these days" - Will Duggan 2019 Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won Dave's "Funniest Joke of The Fringe" award with the niche culinary pun. He took the title with the gag: "I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have florets". It is from Falafel's show It's One Giant Leek For Mankind at the Pear Tree.
2018 Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe - now in its 11th year - has been won by Liverpool comedian Adam Rowe. The joke came from his show Undeniable. Supported by 41% of the public who voted for the award was: "Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job - knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day." The other jokes making the top ten were:
2017 The top 15 funniest jokes from the Fringe 1. "I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change" - Ken Cheng 2. "Trump's nothing like Hitler. There's no way he could write a book" - Frankie Boyle 3. "I've given up asking rhetorical questions. What's the point?" - Alexei Sayle 4. "I'm looking for the girl next door type. I'm just gonna keep moving house till I find her" - Lew Fitz 5. "I like to imagine the guy who invented the umbrella was going to call it the 'brella'. But he hesitated" - Andy Field 6. "Combine Harvesters. And you'll have a really big restaurant" - Mark Simmons 7. "I'm rubbish with names. It's not my fault, it's a condition. There's a name for it..." - Jimeoin 8. "I have two boys, 5 and 6. We're no good at naming things in our house" - Ed Byrne 9. "I wasn't particularly close to my dad before he died... which was lucky, because he trod on a land mine" - Olaf Falafel 10. "Whenever someone says, 'I don't believe in coincidences.' I say, 'Oh my God, me neither!"' - Alasdair Beckett-King 11. "A friend tricked me into going to Wimbledon by telling me it was a men's singles event" - Angela Barnes 12. "As a vegan, I think people who sell meat are disgusting; but apparently people who sell fruit and veg are grocer" - Adele Cliff 13. "For me dying is a lot like going camping. I don't want to do it" - Phil Wang 14. "I wonder how many chameleons snuck onto the Ark" - Adam Hess 15. "I went to a Pretenders gig. It was a tribute act" - Tim Vine 2016 The top 15 funniest jokes from the Fringe
2015 The top 10 funniest jokes of the Fringe
The judges also released a list of jokes which just missed out on the shortlist.
2014 A joke by comedian Tim Vine about a vacuum cleaner has been voted the funniest at this year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival. He won with the one-liner: "I decided to sell my Hoover... well it was just collecting dust." Vine, 47, saw his joke scoop almost a fifth of the votes in the competition run by comedy television channel, Dave. It is the first time the award has been presented to a previous winner. Vine also won in 2010 with the joke: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again." Some of the finalists for funniest joke of the Fringe Festival 2014
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2011 1) Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves." 2) Tim Vine: "Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels." 3) Hannibal Buress: "People say 'I'm taking it one day at a time'. You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works." 4) Tim Key: "Drive-Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've hired the car..." 5) Matt Kirshen: "I was playing chess with my friend and he said, 'Let's make this interesting'. So we stopped playing chess." 6) Sarah Millican: "My mother told me, you don't have to put anything in your mouth you don't want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards." 7) Alan Sharp: "I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure." 8) Mark Watson: "Someone asked me recently - what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I'm not falling for that one again, wife." 9) Andrew Lawrence: "I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can't even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails." 10) DeAnne Smith: "My friend died doing what he loved ... Heroin." 2010 1) Tim Vine "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again." 2) David Gibson "I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone." 3) Emo Philips "I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them." 4) Jack Whitehall "I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought', I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid." 5) Gary Delaney "As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog." 6) John Bishop "Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day." 7) Bo Burnham "What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names." 8) Gary Delaney "Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it's what he would have wanted." 9) Robert White "For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: Empty." 10) Gareth Richards "Wooden spoons are great. You can either use them to prepare food. Or, if you can't be bothered with that, just write a number on one and walk into a pub…" Judges also selected some of the worst jokes of this year's Fringe, which included: Sara Pascoe "Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side." Sean Hughes "You know city-centre beat officers... Well are they police who rap?" John Luke Roberts "I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge." Emo Phillips "I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them." Bec Hill "Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn't have the energy to climb up the stairs." Dan Antopolski "How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan." Antopolski's inclusion in the "worst joke" list comes just a year after he won the Dave trophy. 2009
• 1) Dan Antopolski - "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?" • 2) Paddy Lennox - "I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: 'This could be interesting'." • 3) Sarah Millican - "I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they're up where they belong." • 4) Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West." • 5) Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending." • 6) Adam Hills - "Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you're going to get it, but it's going to be rough." • 7) Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!" • 8) Rhod Gilbert - "A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble." • 9) Dan Antopolski - "I've been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I've seen it six times and there isn't." • 10) Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson) - "I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn't finish a lot of them." The judges also listed some of the worst jokes at this year's Fringe. • Carey Marx - "I'm not doing any Michael Jackson jokes, because they always involve puns about his songs. And that's bad." • Frank Woodley - "I phoned the swine flu hotline and all I got was crackling." • Alex Maple - "Michael Jackson only invented the moonwalk so he could sneak up on children." • Phil Nichol - "She's got a face like a rare Chinese vase - minging." • Alistair McGowan - "I've just split up from my girlfriend, which is a shame, because it was a long-standing arrangement. Perhaps if we'd sat down a bit more..."
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