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Edinburgh festival 2023
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Edinburgh festival 2023
Some snippets from the 2023 Edinburgh festival -
Olaf Falafel - Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules ankle.
Leila Navabi - I have an unconscious bias. I’m biased firmly towards being unconscious.
Sikisa - Cats are like strippers – they sit on your lap and make you think they love you.
Richard Stott - I have a suntanning addiction, so only go on holiday in winter. I went cold Turkey last year.
Ginny Hogan - Everyone says your 20s are all about finding yourself. If that’s true, your 30s are about wishing you’d found somebody else.
Kuan-Wen Huang - My relationship with my mum is like the evolution of payment technology – we went from physical contact to electronic only, then it was contactless.
Eric Rushton - There’s a lot of shame surrounding sex. After I have sex with someone, they often whisper “that’s a shame”.
Some snippets from the 2023 Edinburgh festival -
Olaf Falafel - Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules ankle.
Leila Navabi - I have an unconscious bias. I’m biased firmly towards being unconscious.
Sikisa - Cats are like strippers – they sit on your lap and make you think they love you.
Richard Stott - I have a suntanning addiction, so only go on holiday in winter. I went cold Turkey last year.
Ginny Hogan - Everyone says your 20s are all about finding yourself. If that’s true, your 30s are about wishing you’d found somebody else.
Kuan-Wen Huang - My relationship with my mum is like the evolution of payment technology – we went from physical contact to electronic only, then it was contactless.
Eric Rushton - There’s a lot of shame surrounding sex. After I have sex with someone, they often whisper “that’s a shame”.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
I guess it must be all be in the telling .
If not, I'm glad I didn't bother making the trip.
If not, I'm glad I didn't bother making the trip.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Laughton wrote:I guess it must be all be in the telling .
If not, I'm glad I didn't bother making the trip.
I think I must share IAAG's dry humour.
GS
P.S. Alt-x seems to log you out of the site. A surprising result when you meant Ctrl-x...
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- Lemon Half
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Whilst we're on Scottish humour...
10 cows in a field, which one's on holiday?
The one with the wee calf...
Whilst we're on Scottish humour...
10 cows in a field, which one's on holiday?
The one with the wee calf...
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Itsallaguess wrote:
Some snippets from the 2023 Edinburgh festival -
Olaf Falafel - Getting mythology wrong is my Hercules ankle.
Oops, I misread that as a theme and looked for how the other jokes related to the names!
Ginny Hogan - Everyone says your 20s are all about finding yourself. If that’s true, your 30s are about wishing you’d found somebody else.
That one genuinely made me laugh You're too funny for edinbug.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Sticking with the Scottish theme -
What do you call a man with one foot in his front door?
Hamish...
Sticking with the Scottish theme -
What do you call a man with one foot in his front door?
Hamish...
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
A joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."
Is this like the junior Fringe or something?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-66569215
Top 10 jokes of the 2023 Fringe
I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah - Lorna Rose Treen
The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said 'Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise.' - Liz Guterbock
Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now - Amos Gill
When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast - Sikisa
I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham
How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag - Frank Lavender
My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He's Costa-phobic - Roger Swift
I entered the 'How not to surrender' competition and I won hands down - Bennett Arron
Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch - William Stone
My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films - Daniel Foxx
Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."
Is this like the junior Fringe or something?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... e-66569215
Top 10 jokes of the 2023 Fringe
I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah - Lorna Rose Treen
The most British thing I've ever heard? A lady who said 'Well I'm sorry, but I don't apologise.' - Liz Guterbock
Last year I had a great joke about inflation. But it's hardly worth it now - Amos Gill
When women gossip we get called bitchy; but when men do it's called a podcast - Sikisa
I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham
How do coeliac Germans greet each other? Gluten tag - Frank Lavender
My friend got locked in a coffee place overnight. Now he only ever goes into Starbucks, not the rivals. He's Costa-phobic - Roger Swift
I entered the 'How not to surrender' competition and I won hands down - Bennett Arron
Nationwide must have looked pretty silly when they opened their first branch - William Stone
My grandma describes herself as being in her "twilight years" which I love because they're great films - Daniel Foxx
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Tedx wrote:
A joke about an unfaithful zookeeper has been named the funniest gag at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."
Is this like the junior Fringe or something?
An article covering the above story in the Telegraph actually has a much better zoo-related joke in it's user-comments -
"I dated a nice guy who worked at the aquarium, feeding frozen fish to the dolphins. It wasn't a glamorous job, but he felt he served a porpoise."
:O)
Cheers,
Itsallaguess
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
We had better zoo jokes back in the (Motley Fool) days...
I went to the zoo but they only had a small dog.
It was a Shih Tzu.
FO.
I went to the zoo but they only had a small dog.
It was a Shih Tzu.
FO.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
This is getting as bad as that time I was stung by a bee..
...20 quid for a jar of honey!
...20 quid for a jar of honey!
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah
I started dating a Zookeper, but it turned out she was a lion cu.......b
I started dating a Zookeper, but it turned out she was a lion cu.......b
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
I got a blind date with a Lioness, but she bit my head off and kicked me while I was down!
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham
I'm reminded of a caption of a cartoon in Punch magaine. The cartoon depicts a newstand about the Titantic sinking, some distraught people, and a man with a polar bear on a leash.
The caption reads "yes, but is there any news of the iceberg?".
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Laughton wrote:I guess it must be all be in the telling .
If not, I'm glad I didn't bother making the trip.
talking with a friend that loves humour, he thinks comedians nowadays aren't as funny as they used to be. having read the op, I'm inclined to agree. mind you it must be getting harder to come up with something original when so much more is considered disparaging.
o/b joke:
I've just got one of them Humpty Dumpty toys from Aldi for my granddaughter.
It's brilliant.
It comes with Aldi King's horses and Aldi King's men
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
brightncheerful wrote:Laughton wrote:I guess it must be all be in the telling .
If not, I'm glad I didn't bother making the trip.
talking with a friend that loves humour, he thinks comedians nowadays aren't as funny as they used to be. having read the op, I'm inclined to agree. mind you it must be getting harder to come up with something original when so much more is considered disparaging.
o/b joke:
I've just got one of them Humpty Dumpty toys from Aldi for my granddaughter.
It's brilliant.
It comes with Aldi King's horses and Aldi King's men
I love a good accent joke - chappeu!
There's a very risque one about a "dress as an emotion" fancy dress party.. I'll do what I can.. if it's pulled so be it
The hostess opens the door wearing a green body stocking with with two large golden letters on it (one N... one V) to find two naked men covering their crotches with props, namely a bowl of dessert and a large green fruit.
"Well chaps! You can see I'm "green with EN-VY" says the hostess gesticulating to the letters on her.
"Can I ask what you are?"
In a heavily accented dialecst she gets the replies "I'm deep in dis pear"... "and I'm f*****ng dis custard"
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
brightncheerful wrote:I thought I'd start off with a joke about The Titanic - just to break the ice - Masai Graham
I'm reminded of a caption of a cartoon in Punch magaine. The cartoon depicts a newstand about the Titantic sinking, some distraught people, and a man with a polar bear on a leash.
The caption reads "yes, but is there any news of the iceberg?".
Probably one of Bill Tidy's most famous, and the title of his autobiography. https://www.amazon.co.uk/There-Any-News-Iceberg-Autobiography/dp/1856851028
Not sure if it came before or after Les Barker's touching poem, Any news of the iceberg?, which can be read at https://monologues.co.uk/Les_Barker/Any_News_Iceberg.htm or you can see him performing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXEgiyjdtA, and which several folks have set to music, here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puTwNqL0nsE
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
Think I'd have worded it: "I started dating this cool cat, but it turned out he was a cheetah."Tedx wrote:Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."
Probably explains why I'm not a comedian. C.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
mc2fool wrote:Not sure if it came before or after Les Barker's touching poem, Any news of the iceberg?, which can be read at https://monologues.co.uk/Les_Barker/Any_News_Iceberg.htm or you can see him performing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhXEgiyjdtA, and which several folks have set to music, here's one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puTwNqL0nsE
I was going to quote this one by Les, too. Happy days. Had jaw ache the first time I ever saw him perform and still have a record of his filed away somewhere. just Googled him and found out that he passed away this year.
Back on topic, does anyone else think the quality is going down? Certainly this year's winner seems to be a rehash that you would have thought the judges would have picked up on. Some of the runners-up can get honourable mentions though.
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Re: Edinburgh festival 2023
csearle wrote:Think I'd have worded it: "I started dating this cool cat, but it turned out he was a cheetah."Tedx wrote:Comedian Lorna Rose Treen was voted the winner with her pun: "I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah."
Probably explains why I'm not a comedian. C.
I have to say that would be an improvement IMHO
Unless, for the original, the comedy is in the "it's so bad it's funny" vein (and I'll accept that can work at times with the right delivery) , or is a really clever "cherry on top" callback to something else in the routine I'm struggling to see how it beats the output of the average xmas cracker
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