Edinburgh Fringe Festival Funniest Jokes – a sample from 2008-2013
- “My girlfriend said ‘did you know that hippopotamuses kill more people every year than guns?’. ‘Yes,’ I said, ‘but a gun is easier to conceal’.”
– Lloyd Langford
- “When I was a kid I asked my mum what a couple was and she said ‘oh, two or three’. And she wonders why her marriage didn’t work.”
– Josie Long
- “The Scots invented hypnosis, chloroform and the hypodermic syringe – wouldn’t it be easier just to talk to a woman?”
– Stephen Grant
- “I’m sure wherever my dad is he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.”
– Jack Whitehall
- “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”
– Dan Antopolski (winner, 2009)
- “I picked up a hitch hiker. You’ve got to when you hit them.”
– Emo Phillips
- “I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say ‘bought’, I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.”
– Jack Whitehall
- “Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it’s what he would have wanted.”
– Gary Delaney
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