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Edinburgh Fringe - Best Joke Award

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Good god this year's winner is rubbish, even more so than normal. It barely works as a joke as it doesn't really make any sense, and even then it's better written down than said out loud. No.8 is probably my favourite.

 

Top 10 jokes

  1. I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah. Lorna Rose Treen 44%
  2. The most British thing I’ve ever heard? A lady who said ‘Well I’m sorry, but I don’t apologise.’ Liz Guterbock 41%
  3. Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it’s hardly worth it now. Amos Gill 40%
  4. When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it’s called a podcast. Sikisa 34%
  5. I thought I’d start off with a joke about The Titanic – just to break the ice. Masai Graham 33%
  6. How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag. Frank Lavender 32%
  7. My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He’s Costa-phobic. Roger Swift 29%
  8. I entered the ‘How not to surrender’ competition and I won hands down. Bennett Arron 29%
  9. Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch. William Stone 28%
  10. My grandma describes herself as being in her ‘twilight years’ which I love because they’re great films. Daniel Foxx 26%
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14 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Good god this year's winner is rubbish, even more so than normal. It barely works as a joke as it doesn't really make any sense, and even then it's better written down than said out loud. No.8 is probably my favourite.

 

Top 10 jokes

  1. I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah. Lorna Rose Treen 44%
  2. The most British thing I’ve ever heard? A lady who said ‘Well I’m sorry, but I don’t apologise.’ Liz Guterbock 41%
  3. Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it’s hardly worth it now. Amos Gill 40%
  4. When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it’s called a podcast. Sikisa 34%
  5. I thought I’d start off with a joke about The Titanic – just to break the ice. Masai Graham 33%
  6. How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag. Frank Lavender 32%
  7. My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He’s Costa-phobic. Roger Swift 29%
  8. I entered the ‘How not to surrender’ competition and I won hands down. Bennett Arron 29%
  9. Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch. William Stone 28%
  10. My grandma describes herself as being in her ‘twilight years’ which I love because they’re great films. Daniel Foxx 26%

You're right. The winner is terrible and doesn't even make sense. How can a zookeeper be a cheetah? It doesn't even work as a pun.

 

I'd say the Amos Gill and William Stone ones are passable. The rest are awful.

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It's a festival designed for lawn green bowls fans to travel north of Rickmansworth once a year. Is it a surprise the best jokes are of a quality you'd feel short changed by if you saw them in your Christmas cracker? 

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5 hours ago, The Bear said:

Good god this year's winner is rubbish, even more so than normal. It barely works as a joke as it doesn't really make any sense, and even then it's better written down than said out loud. No.8 is probably my favourite.

 

Top 10 jokes

  1. I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah. Lorna Rose Treen 44%
  2. The most British thing I’ve ever heard? A lady who said ‘Well I’m sorry, but I don’t apologise.’ Liz Guterbock 41%
  3. Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it’s hardly worth it now. Amos Gill 40%
  4. When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it’s called a podcast. Sikisa 34%
  5. I thought I’d start off with a joke about The Titanic – just to break the ice. Masai Graham 33%
  6. How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag. Frank Lavender 32%
  7. My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He’s Costa-phobic. Roger Swift 29%
  8. I entered the ‘How not to surrender’ competition and I won hands down. Bennett Arron 29%
  9. Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch. William Stone 28%
  10. My grandma describes herself as being in her ‘twilight years’ which I love because they’re great films. Daniel Foxx 26%


Bargain bucket joke book levels this. Amos Gill the only half-decent one and that shouldn’t be anywhere near top ten.

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5 minutes ago, urban.spaceman said:

Asked ChatGPT to write a joke about it:

 

Why did the Edinburgh Fringe's Best Joke Award Top 10 feel like a game of limbo?

Because even the laughs couldn't seem to lower the bar any further!

Think that slips straight into the top five. 

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