Best jokes edinburgh festival

The surrealist Swedish comedian Olaf Falafel has won the Dave funniest joke of the fringe award for This is the 12th year the TV channel Dave has awarded a funniest joke of the fringe prize. A shortlist was compiled by a panel of 10 comedy critics who each submitted their favourite six jokes, without naming the comic, with the gags then put to a vote by 2, members of the public. There is just one joke about Brexit in the top Most of the jokes steer clear of current affairs and have a timeless quality. I think I might have Florets.

Every year television channel Dave name the best gag of the Festival — and there have been some crackers down the years. How many jokes do we reckon are performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe each year? Quite possibly. Across the city hundreds comedians and acts are giving audiences their all — performing the routines they've spent so long perfecting and finely-tuning. Some probably even reckon they've come up with the perfect joke, and are itching to share it with their captivated audience. However each year just one gag is chosen by television channel Dave and named the 'funniest joke' of the Fringe. It tends to be a pun or one-liner, rather than long routine, so it's not necessarily a judge of the best comedy performance.

If laughter is the best medicine, Edinburgh is set to be in rude health for the rest of August: the Fringe is bringing the lols for another year. The great and the good have upped sticks to north of the border for the month, hoping to make audiences laugh at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The action-packed arts jamboree is in full swing, with reviews landing left, right and centre - and a new Edinburgh Comedy Award winner set to be crowned before it comes to an end.

Please refresh the page and retry. The comic said that the annual event was painful "like pregnancy", but he nevertheless returned for a seventh year and delivered what has been judged the best gag. Swedish comedian Falafel has previously come close to clinching the winning joke, but this year's effort sealed victory. His winning joke is: "I keep randomly shouting out 'broccoli' and 'cauliflower' - I think I might have florets. The vegetable pun was deemed the best gag by voting members of the public, after being shortlisted by an expert panel.