Who doesn’t like a good joke? The top ten funniest jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival were selected by a panel of comedy critics and put out to 3000 voters. Nick Helm, a recent addition to the comedy circuit, came up trumps when his joke was voted the best.
His joke: ‘I needed a password eight characters long, so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.’
The other jokes were:
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.’
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