A pun about pasta has received the award for the funniest joke of this yr’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Comic Masai Graham was voted the winner with the joke: “I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get pasta.”
The Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe award, which was voted for by members of the general public, returned for the primary time since 2019.
Graham additionally received the accolade in 2016 with the joke: “My dad suggested I register for a donor card – he’s a man after my own heart.”
The comic stated: “It’s nice to see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival again up and working once more, it is my religious house.
“I was so delighted to find out I’d won the Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe award for a second time – I thought: ‘This is getting pasta joke’.”
Comedy critics attended a whole lot of exhibits throughout the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to create a shortlist which was voted on by 2,000 members of the general public, who weren’t advised the names of the comedians within the working.
Previous winners of the award embrace Ken Chang, Olaf Falafel, Tim Vine, Rob Auton, Stewart Francis, Zoe Lyons and Nick Helm.
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Dave channel director Cherie Cunningham stated: “What a pleasure to be back in Edinburgh. This is Dave’s first Joke of the Fringe in three years and the quality of submissions has been incredibly strong.
“It’s a unbelievable prime 10 stuffed with newcomers and comedy veterans, and it is a delight to crown Masai Graham as winner as soon as extra.”
The prime 10 jokes
1. Masai Graham: I attempted to steal spaghetti from the store, however the feminine guard noticed me and I could not get pasta.
2. Mark Simmons: Did , in the event you get pregnant within the Amazon, it is next-day supply.
3. Olaf Falafel: My makes an attempt to mix nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing inventory.
4. Hannah Fairweather: By my age, my dad and mom had a home and a household, and to be honest to me, so do I – however it’s the identical home and it’s the identical household.
5. Will Mars: I hate funerals – I’m not a mourning particular person.
6. Olaf Falafel: I spent the entire morning constructing a time machine, in order that’s 4 hours of my life that I’m undoubtedly getting again.
7. Richard Pulsford: I despatched a meals parcel to my first spouse. FedEx.
8. Tim Vine: I used to stay hand to mouth. Do what modified my life? Cutlery.
9. Sophie Duker: Don’t knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the roles you hate.
10. Will Duggan: I am unable to even be bothered to be apathetic nowadays.
Source: information.sky.com”