Jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe

 Last year's annual poll for the best joke of the festival was Lorna Rose Treen's one-liner:

"I started  dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."

In 2019 Olaf Falafel, not his real name, won with:

"I keep randomly shouting out 'broccoli' and 'cauliflower' - I think I might have florets."

(Day one: joy and acclaim. Day two: outrage from Tourette syndrome charities.)

A Capital Joke
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Photo Credit: Preston Park Museum & Grounds [CC BY-NC-ND]

In 2017 he was nominated for the 'Funniest Joke of the Fringe with:

"I wasn't particularly close to my dad before he died - which was lucky, because he trod on a landmine." Boom Boom!

In 2023:

"Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules ankle."

Some other jokes:

'I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don't pay it back, I'm going to get repossessed.'

'My dad used to say to me, "Pints, gallons, litres" which I think speaks volumes.'

'If you're being chased by a pack of taxidermists, do not play dead.'

'I spent the morning building a time machine - that's four hours of my life I'm definitely getting back.'

The 2024 winner.

'I was going to sail around the globe in the world's smallest ship but I bottled it.'

(Brian Logan, The Guardian, 2024)