Here are the funniest jokes of the Fringe

Dave has revealed the funniest jokes of the Fringe Festival.

Every year the TV channel lists their top ten punchlines, and crown an ultimate winner.

To seek out the best one-liners and wisecracks for the first Joke of the Fringe award in three years following the Festival’s Covid hiatus, Dave recruited an expert panel of acclaimed judges made up of some of the leading comedy critics in the UK.

These panellists attended hundreds of shows across the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, listening out for those jokes which tickled them the most, then submitted their six favourites.

This shortlist was then submitted anonymously - without the name of the comic involved - to a public vote of 2,000 Brits, after which the funniest was revealed.

The winner - Masai Graham, winning the prize for the second time.

Masai took the crown for this 'punny' effort..

“I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get Pasta”.

Speaking about his joke claiming the top spot, Masai Graham said: “It's great to see the Edinburgh Fringe Festival back up and running again, it's my spiritual home. 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.”

Dave’s Top 10 Funniest Jokes of the Fringe Festival 2022:

1. I tried to steal spaghetti from the shop, but the female guard saw me and I couldn’t get Pasta

Masai Graham – 52%

2. Did you know, if you get pregnant in the Amazon, it’s next day delivery

Mark Simmons – 37%

3. My attempts to combine nitrous oxide and Oxo cubes made me a laughing stock

Olaf Falafel – 36%

4. 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

Hannah Fairweather – 35%

5. I hate funerals – I’m not a mourning person

Will Mars – 34%

6. I spent the whole morning building a time machine, so that’s four hours of my life that I’m definitely getting back

Olaf Falafel – 33%

7. I sent a food parcel to my first wife. FedEx

Richard Pulsford – 29%

8. I used to live hand to mouth. Do you know what changed my life? Cutlery

Tim Vine – 28%

9. Don’t knock threesomes. Having a threesome is like hiring an intern to do all the jobs you hate

Sophie Duker – 27%

10. I can’t even be bothered to be apathetic these days

Will Duggan – 25%

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