So the top joke at this year's festival appears to be all over the news as if there isn't better things to report on. If this is the best joke there then tbh I:m glad I've never been BBC article here https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-66569215 shows the top 10. Top 10 jokes of the 2023 Fringe I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah - Lorna Rose Treen The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said 'Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise.' - Liz Guterbock Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now - Amos Gill When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast - Sikisa I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag - Frank Lavender 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 I entered the 'How not to surrender' competition and I won hands down - Bennett Arron Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch - William Stone My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films - Daniel Foxx imho 2 & 3 were better. Time for a poll.
None of them come close to Tim Vine's level of humour. "Albinos, can't say fairer than that." being one of my favourties.
Fringe has had its time. That is evidenced by the second successive year of a ‘comedian’ going on social media to complain about no one turning up to their show (complete with tear soaked selfie). Only for them to describe it as ‘part of their bit’ when challenged over their authenticity. The days of a comedian like Limmy turning up with something amazingly original and stealing the show are long gone.
Voted none of them because none are sufficiently Vine-esque. If push came to shove I would vote for 9.
I liked them in a gentle way. They made me smile. Thank you. I voted for 9, possibly because we all want a number 9!
I also voted 9, and before I read these comments. I saw the story on the BBC this morning and couldn't understand why the zookeeper joke won, it's pretty lame in a Christmas cracker way
And another... “He said ‘I’m going to chop off the bottom of one of your trouser legs and put it in a library’. I thought ‘That’s a turn-up for the books.'”
As excellent a gift from his parents to the general public as Tim Vine is, we have to also account for the fact that they gave us his brother Jeremy as well.
