Top jokes at the Edinburgh Fringe 2018
Adam Rowe has won the award for Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe 2018.
Here's the top 10:
#1. Adam Rowe:
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.
#2. Leo Kearse:
I had a job drilling holes for water - it was well boring.
#3. Olaf Falafel:
I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don't pay it back, I'm going to get repossessed.
#4. Daniel Audritt:
In my last relationship, I hated being treated like a piece of meat. She was a vegan and refused to touch me.
#5. Flo & Joan:
What do colour blind people do when they are told to eat their greens?
#6. Darren Walsh:
I've got a new job collecting all the jumpers left in the park at the weekends, but it's not easy. They keep moving the goalposts.
#7. Justin Moorhouse:
Trump said he'd build a wall but he hasn't even picked up a brick. He's just another middle-aged man failing on a DIY project.
=#8. Adele Cliff:
I lost a friend after we had an argument about the Tardis. I thought it was a little thing, but it seemed much bigger once we got into it.
=#8. Alex Edelman:
Why are they calling it Brexit and not The Great British Break Off?
#10. Laura Lexx:
I think love is like central heating. You turn it on before guests arrive and pretend it's like this all the time.
Adam Rowe is currently performing a show at the Edinburgh Festival titled Undeniable. He first got on stage to do stand-up comedy in 2010 and, a little over a year later, was named Liverpool Comedian of the Year. At this point he quit his bar job to pursue a comedy career.
On his joke claiming the top spot, he says: "I'm absolutely over the moon and quite blown away by this! It's my favourite joke in the show, as it ends the bit I'm most passionate about; trying to dispel a few myths of what it's like to be brought up on benefits. It's such a huge honour, I really never expected to be in with a shout of winning things like this, so it's just a massive but lovely surprise. Thank you very much!"
Jokes were collected up by a panel of comedy critics, which were then presented to a panel involving 2000 members of the public. Speaking about how the award is organised, the channel explains: "The Dave award, which is open to both established and up-and-coming comedians, pays homage to the wealth of talent on offer at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and shines a spotlight on the skill of writing a cracking one-liner. To ensure that there is no bias towards well-known or favourite comedians during the public vote, the jokes are listed with no reference to the comedian that wrote and performed them - meaning it is purely judged on the humour of the jokes themselves."
Luke Hales, Dave channel director, says: "This year, the news agenda and every day British idiosyncrasies have provided some wonderful opportunities for comedians to use their creative and comic genius in giving us all a giggle. As ever, we have enjoyed some quite brilliant one-liners and are delighted to crown Adam Rowe as the recipient of this year's Dave's Funniest Joke of the Fringe Award!"
Previous years
This is the 11th year of the competition...