Edinburgh Fringe - Best Joke Award

[bmt]

Haha I said this exact same thing to my girlfriend this morning. It's shit and doesn't make sense.

 

8 my favourite but I also like 2, 3 and 9.

[Sampson]

If they’d said “I dated a cougar” instead of a zookeeper the joke would make a lot more sense.

 

It’s not even a pun if it’s a zookeeper.

[SouthStandUpperTier]

Jesus wept. You'd find better jokes in a box of budget Christmas crackers.

[Daggers]

Corporate bollocks.

 

No self respecting comedian should be seen anywhere near that event these days.

[Nalis]

Some lists have a handful of decent ones. This year's list is generally awful, not even in a so bad its good kind of way either.

[RonnieTodger]

I’m genuinely offended by how shit these are

[Kopfkino]

No idea why this remains a thing. It makes no sense to try to extract one liners from hour shows that aren’t written and performed with one-liners in mind. Unless you’re a one-liner comedian, sheering all context away makes any line look crap.

 

Lorna Treen’s show is just daft character comedy and in context it is meant to be stupid

[Nalis]

7 hours ago, Kopfkino said:

No idea why this remains a thing. It makes no sense to try to extract one liners from hour shows that aren’t written and performed with one-liners in mind. Unless you’re a one-liner comedian, sheering all context away makes any line look crap.

 

Lorna Treen’s show is just daft character comedy and in context it is meant to be stupid

Is that really how its done? I didnt realise, explains why most are crap.

[Beliall]

19 hours ago, Izzy said:

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

you have 24% of the vibrators?

[Lako42]

23 hours ago, Trav Le Bleu said:

Voted for by the public, so...

 

 

So was Brexshit

[Parafox]

21 hours ago, Kopfkino said:

No idea why this remains a thing. It makes no sense to try to extract one liners from hour shows that aren’t written and performed with one-liners in mind. Unless you’re a one-liner comedian, sheering all context away makes any line look crap.

 

Lorna Treen’s show is just daft character comedy and in context it is meant to be stupid

 

Maybe you need to think again?

 

inews.co.uk:

 

Treen has won numerous awards for her one liners 

 

Edited 23 August 2023 by Parafox

[Mike Oxlong]

I actually cried reading this year’s entries …. as I slid down the bannisters with a razor blade between my bollocks 

[Guest]

25 minutes ago, Parafox said:

 

Maybe you need to think again?

 

inews.co.uk:

 

Treen has won numerous awards for her one liners 

 

Her show is described everywhere as oddball character comedy rather than a succession of one liners so perhaps you ought to have a rethink yourself

[Zear0]

Naan on the moon gag in the tech thread walks over all these. 

[boots60]

It is impossible to be both a comedian & politically correct.

[Kopfkino]

2 hours ago, Parafox said:

 

Maybe you need to think again?

 

inews.co.uk:

 

Treen has won numerous awards for her one liners 

 

I’ve seen the show, I know full well what it is and who she is. She’s won plenty of awards but not specifically for one liners.
 

There is a clear difference between genuine one liner comedians like Tim Vine, Milton Jones, Stewart Francis, Mitch Hedberg, even someone like Jimmy Carr and taking lines out of shows of other comedy types.

 

The joke is terrible but it’s meant to be for the character that delivers it. Because the character is meant to be the funny bit (i didn’t personally particularly enjoy it but that’s different) not the joke.

[The Quick Brown Fox]

9 raised a smile. The others, Wow, my kids joke book have better. 

[Collymore]

I spent the day with my pet owl, we had a hoot. 

 

I literally just made that up and it could have made that list!

[fazzyfox]

8 and 9 but otherwise