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Last Ten Best Jokes From The Edinburgh Fringe

Updated: Aug 20

With this year's Fringe still going on, it's too early to compile the best one-liners for 2024. So, here are the best from the last decade.


The event is the world's largest performance arts festival and features various different awards, with the Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award grabbing headlines each year. Here are some of the best blasts of the past...


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2023: Lorna Rose - 'I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.'


2022: Masai Graham - 'I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta.'


2019: Olaf Falafel – 'I keep randomly shouting out 'broccoli' and 'cauliflower' - I think I might have florets.'


2018 - Alan Rowe - 'Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job - knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day.'


2017: Ken Cheng - 'I'm not a fan of the new pound coin, but then again, I hate all change.'


2016: Masai Graham - 'My dad suggested I register for a donor card, he is a man after my own heart.'


2015: Darren Walsh - 'I just deleted all the German names off my phone. It's Hans free.'


2014: Tim Vine - 'I decided to sell my Hoover... well it was just collecting dust.'


2013: Rob Auton - 'I heard a rumour Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa.'


2012: Stewart Francis - 'You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks.'


2011: Nick Helm - 'I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.'


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