REVEALED: The top 10 jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe

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By crowboro_lee | Thursday, August 25, 2011, 15:29

Stand-up comedian Nick Helm has had one of his gags named as the best joke of the Edinburgh Fringe.

He won the award, created by TV channel Dave, for the joke: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

A panel of 10 comedy critics scoured the city's venues to find the best gags and their top 30 were then put to a vote of 3,000 comedy fans.

Veteran entertainer Paul Daniels, who won the wooden spoon for the worst joke of the festival.

He won the dubious honour for his gag: "I said to a fella 'Is there a B&Q in Henley?' He said 'No, there's an H, an E, an N an L and a Y'."

The top ten jokes from this year's Edinburgh Fringe...

1. Nick Helm: "I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves."

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."

Which one is your favourite or have you heard one better? (Keep it clean please)

      

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    Whats red and bad for your teeth.

    A housebrick.

    By CaptnSwing at 16:09 on 27/08/11

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    My mate is in love with two schoolbags. He's bisatchel.

    Quoting one is plagiarism. Quoting many is research


    Badoom Toosh!!!

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