Anyway, yeah these are mostly OK
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:10 (six years ago) link
their choices of jokes by female comedians are execrable, almost like they want to perpetuate the myth
― imago, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
The edfringe joke is kinda useless, like it could have been from anytime the past forty years..
― Mark G, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:12 (six years ago) link
These are just the Guardian's pick of the best jokes they've heard so far, not the official "best joke of the Fringe" award.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
man i really shit the bed here huh
― for sale: clown shoes, never worn (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:42 (six years ago) link
Something something shit the bed something something relaxative. (wins 'best joke of the Fringe' award)
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:48 (six years ago) link
'Three more sleeps'? Who says that? The eye test one is an old joke, I'm sure.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:52 (six years ago) link
On any given day, I probably read 5-10 funnier things on ILX that someone pulled out of their ass while compiling a spreadsheet than I have among all of the past and present 'best joke of the Fringe' nominees combined.
― Say, I Heard You Had a Quarrel With Your Best Girl (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 12:53 (six years ago) link
'X more sleeps' is something you say to your kids when they want to know how long they're going to have to wait for something.
― heaven parker (anagram), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 13:09 (six years ago) link
Between glasses, vagina and village ppl I think
glasses doesn't even start to work as a joke.
Vagina is a non effort.
Village ppl is an unfunny question.
Glasses is the worst.
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 14:10 (six years ago) link
Agreed that the general standard is better
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 14:11 (six years ago) link
The glasses one. There are a couple here that are okay
― Shat Parp (dog latin), Wednesday, 16 August 2017 14:52 (six years ago) link
Fringe bubble/North Korea one is worst.
― Daniel_Rf, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:29 (six years ago) link
It will probably surprise no-one that the glasses, vagina and village people jokes are the only ones I'd consider passable.
― Andrew Farrell, Wednesday, 16 August 2017 15:39 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.
― System, Saturday, 19 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
We're going to EdFrinj on Sunday, Alice's school drama group are doing a weeks stretch of performances and so Dawn* and I are booked in a hotel, never been up before but always fancied it.
(* = first mention on ILX btw, not bad for 22 yrs of Marriage)
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 August 2017 09:04 (six years ago) link
What's the show called? "The Emperors Fool", thanks for asking ta.....
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 August 2017 09:12 (six years ago) link
North Korea one is worst. One of those in jokes that isn't even an in joke.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:22 (six years ago) link
It could be the name of a wacky comedy routine/troupe, quite clear imo
― jk rowling obituary thread (darraghmac), Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:24 (six years ago) link
quite clearly AWFUL!!!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:27 (six years ago) link
The first three and the Village People joke are passable. The worst joke is the guy who named himself "Olaf Falafel"
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:28 (six years ago) link
There will certainly be "0 laffs" at that show!
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:31 (six years ago) link
All these jokes have the same pentameter.
Ba-dum ba-dum-ba something quotidian. Ba-dum ba-dum-ba mild turnaround.
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:32 (six years ago) link
The North Korea one is like, you just shat out the hackiest "you hum it, I'll play it" joke in the nakedly cynical hope that cunts will be like "haw haw, the fringe - that's where I am, right now!"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:41 (six years ago) link
That too, yes.
― Mark G, Saturday, 19 August 2017 10:43 (six years ago) link
I never can tell with this thread, we're voting for the worst?
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Saturday, 19 August 2017 11:36 (six years ago) link
Best not to vote at all, it only encourages them.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 August 2017 11:37 (six years ago) link
"Most useless"
― blog haus aka the scene raver (wins), Saturday, 19 August 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
I don't know which I've got most contempt for. These appalling hacks that make it their life's work to turn humour into a form of article 3 prohibited torture. Or the simpering fuckwits that pay to watch this kind of material, and supply the undeserved laughter in numbers.
― calzino, Saturday, 19 August 2017 12:02 (six years ago) link
The 'North Korea/what venue?' one was worst, imo. It flat-lined in terms of humor and showcases the worst aspects of pandering to your audience and overstrained topicality. I thought the Wales/vagina was in a dead heat with the suit/sex fantasy one for second worst. The suit one was just dismal while the Wales was borderline incoherent.
But the overall quality was slightly up from the past ones polled here.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:21 (six years ago) link
calz otm
― Neves Say Neves Again (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:24 (six years ago) link
Voted Vagina/Wales.
― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Saturday, 19 August 2017 17:26 (six years ago) link
Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.
― System, Sunday, 20 August 2017 00:01 (six years ago) link
Correct
― Mark G, Sunday, 20 August 2017 08:45 (six years ago) link
it's that time of the year again - brace yourselves people:
https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2018/aug/13/edinburgh-festival-2018-the-10-best-jokes
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:49 (five years ago) link
These are *a bit* better, but half of them obviously have a element of delivery which cannot come across when written down, so surely not suitable for the article? Maybe this is why we had all the lame dad jokes before, they at least made sense.
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 13 August 2018 13:56 (five years ago) link
first one is good but it's all downhill from there imo
― I'd Rather Kecak (NickB), Monday, 13 August 2018 14:04 (five years ago) link
Constructing a joke around a punchline is a good way to construct a shitty joke.
― Funkface LLC (Old Lunch), Monday, 13 August 2018 14:09 (five years ago) link
Winner:
Adam Rowe won the 11th annual award for Dave's Funniest Joke Of The Fringe with the line: "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."
― Mark G, Monday, 20 August 2018 09:47 (five years ago) link