Fringe benefits

• 22.08.2022 11:37 UTC+02:00
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It's been three full years since we last laughed—or groaned, in the case of Tim Vine's efforts—at the joke voted by members of the public as the funniest to have been presented at the Edinburgh Fringe festival. But now the Dave Award has returned, and the winner is…not Tim Vine. TFFT!

Although, to be honest, Masai Graham's winning effort isn't any better: I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn't get pasta. [tumbleweed]

Of learning about his award, he doubled-down with: 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. This man clearly has no shame. (SMH)

More noteworthy, in my opinion at least, were these contenders:

• Hannah Fairweather: By my age, my parents had a house and a family, and to be fair to me, so do I - but it is the same house and it is the same family.
• Olaf Falafel: I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that's four hours of my life that I'm definitely getting back.
• Mark Simmons: Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it's next-day delivery.

And, I almost hate myself for admitting this:

• Tim Vine: I used to live hand to mouth. Do you know what changed my life? Cutlery.

Nice one, Tim! (thumbup)