A witty pun about a sailing trip has been crowned the funniest joke told at this year\u2019s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. <\/p>\n
Thousands of performers flock to Scotland\u2019s capital each year to entertain and delight crowds at the Fringe. <\/p>\n
British entertainment channel U&Dave, owned by British broadcaster UKTV, has handed out the \u201cFunniest Joke of the Fringe Award\u201d for the last 15 years, according to a UKTV news release on Monday. <\/p>\n
Despite vast competition, comedian Mark Simmons won with his gag: \u201cI was going to sail around the globe in the world\u2019s smallest ship but I bottled it.\u201d <\/p>\n
A panel that included leading UK comedy critics and comedians attended hundreds of shows across the festival and submitted their 10 top gags. <\/p>\n
A shortlist of jokes that were anonymized was then presented to 2,000 members of the British public to vote on the one that evoked the most laughter. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m really chuffed to win U&Dave\u2019s Funniest Joke of the Fringe,\u201d Simmons said in the release. \u201cI needed some good news as I was just fired from my job marking exam papers, can\u2019t understand it, I always gave 110%.\u201d <\/p>\n
Simmons became a comedian after his friend convinced him to do an open-mic night, and he began performing solo at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2014, according to the release. <\/p>\n
This is the first time he has won the top joke prize, with his humorous one-liner being taken from his PHB\u2019s Free Fringe show at Liquid Room Annexe. <\/p>\n
The runner-up was this joke by comedian Alec Snook: \u201cI\u2019ve been taking salsa lessons for months, but I just don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m progressing. It\u2019s just one step forward\u2026 two steps back.\u201d <\/p>\n
Hosted in Scotland\u2019s capital annually, the Fringe is the world\u2019s largest arts festival. <\/p>\n
1.<\/strong> \u201cI was going to sail around the globe in the world\u2019s smallest ship but I bottled it.\u201d Mark Simmons <\/p>\n 2.<\/strong> \u201cI\u2019ve been taking salsa lessons for months, but I just don\u2019t feel like I\u2019m progressing. It\u2019s just one step forward\u2026 two steps back.\u201d Alec Snook <\/p>\n 3<\/strong>. \u201cAte horse at a restaurant once – wasn\u2019t great. Starter was all right but the mane was dreadful.\u201d Alex Kitson <\/p>\n 4<\/strong>. \u201cI sailed through my driving test. That\u2019s why I failed it.\u201d Arthur Smith <\/p>\n 5<\/strong>. \u201cI love the Olympics. My friend and I invented a new type of relay baton: well, he came up with the idea, I ran with it.\u201d Mark Simmons <\/p>\n 6<\/strong>. \u201cMy dad used to say to me \u2018Pints, gallons, liters\u2019 \u2013 which, I think, speaks volumes.\u201d Olaf Falafel <\/p>\n 7. <\/strong>\u201cBritish etiquette is confusing. Why is it highbrow to look at boobs in an art gallery but lowbrow when I get them out in Spoons?\u201d Chelsea Birkby <\/p>\n 8<\/strong>. \u201cI wanted to know which came first the chicken or the egg so I bought a chicken and then I bought an egg and I think I\u2019ve cracked it.\u201d Masai Graham <\/p>\n 9. <\/strong>\u201cMy partner told me that she\u2019d never seen the film Gaslight. I told her that she definitely had.\u201d Zo\u00eb Coombs Marr <\/p>\n 10. <\/strong>\u201cThe conspiracy theory about the moon being made of cheese was started by the hallouminati.\u201d Olaf Falafel <\/p>\n<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A witty pun about a sailing trip has been crowned the funniest joke told at this year\u2019s Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Thousands of performers flock to Scotland\u2019s capital each year to entertain and delight crowds at the Fringe. British entertainment channel U&Dave, owned by British broadcaster UKTV, has handed out the \u201cFunniest Joke of the Fringe <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6632,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6631","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/digitaltradecenter.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}