Edinburgh Fringe - Best Joke Award

[The Bear]

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%

[Kinowe Soorie]

11. Brendan Rodgers.

[RoboFox]

AI has written most of those.

 

Awful.

[bovril]

Number 1 is like something a 12 year old would think up

[NAKC20]

Think i will stick to reading the comments from some people on this forum

[ClaphamFox]

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.

[Lionator]

Did @Izzy finish 11th?

[StanSP]

It's not that great. 

 

Number 8 and 6 are better. Or 4 for the 'edginess'. 

[Guest Bilo]

Pffft.

 

I prefer the What's the Sickest Joke You Know thread from here a few years ago.

[dsr-burnley]

I'd say 2, 8 and 9 are the only ones eligible to enter a "joke competition", and 2 is more of an ascerbic (but true!) comment than a joke.

 

Number 1 was presumably meant to be about dating a zoo animal, not a zookeeper.

[ozleicester]

Only one... "Inflation" ...was worth stealing

[Dunge]

9’s the winner for me.

8 passable, 2 I can imagine being funny as part of a set.

 

The others range from mediocre to don’t even work as a joke.

[Stuntman_Mike]

That's not the best promotion of the festival 

[Guest Sideshow Faes]

Number 9 appeals to me a little.

The rest are woeful.

[kingcarr21]

The whole list of jokes are terrible

 

Did the Titanic break the ice? Surely it was the other way around. So in my mind it doesn't work

 

 

 

[Guest Lako42]

Absolute garbage 

 

I write funnier jokes in my sleep, shame I can't remember any of them. 

[Unabomber]

If this is the top ten then imagine all the other jokes 

[Blarmy]

Bloody hell. 

[Zear0]

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? 

[Izzy]

4 hours ago, Lionator said:

Did @Izzy finish 11th?

11. Recent studies have shown that 67% of women have used vibrators. The other 33% have brand new ones. Izzy 24%

[urban.spaceman]

4 hours ago, RoboFox said:

AI has written most of those.

 

Awful.

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!

[Finnaldo]

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.

[RoboFox]

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. 

[Finnegan]

Every year these are utterly abysmal. 

[Trav Le Bleu]

Voted for by the public, so...

 

Are there just terrible comedians?

 

Or

 

Has the great British public got no sense of humour and all the good jokes never got any votes?