{"id":6896,"date":"2024-08-19T15:05:47","date_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/ship-gag-crowned-the-funniest-joke-from-the-edinburgh-fringe\/"},"modified":"2024-08-19T15:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-19T15:05:47","slug":"ship-gag-crowned-the-funniest-joke-from-the-edinburgh-fringe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/08\/19\/ship-gag-crowned-the-funniest-joke-from-the-edinburgh-fringe\/","title":{"rendered":"Ship gag crowned the funniest joke from the Edinburgh Fringe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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

Gags that made the top 10:<\/h2>\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

This post appeared first on cnn.com<\/div>\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A witty pun about a sailing trip has been crowned the funniest joke told at…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6897,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}