[Crimson Dynamo]

"Comedian" Lorna Rose Treen is this year’s recipient of the Funniest Joke
at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, making her only the second woman to win in
the award’s 14-year history.:

Every year, the public votes on a shortlist of one-liners heard at the Scottish
arts festival as selected by a panel of comedy judges.

Treen won the annual Dave’s Funniest Joke of the Fringe prize with her one-
liner: “I started dating a zookeeper, but it turned out he was a cheetah.”



Tragic, due to the fear of blame today's comedians are being strangled and are just not funny save a few of the big names. Its a dark time for comedy

Here is the top 10 from 2010:

I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.

I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone.

I picked up a hitchhiker. You gotta when you hit them.

I bought one of those anti-bullying wristbands when they first came out. I say 'bought' - I actually stole it off a short, fat ginger kid.

As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog.

Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day.

What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names.

Dave drowned. So at the funeral we got him a wreath in the shape of a lifebelt. Well, it's what he would have wanted.

For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates - empty.

Wooden spoons are great. You can either use them to prepare food, or if you can't be bothered with that, just write a number on one and walk into a pub.

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how many would survive the wokery of today?

[Oliver_W]

That winning joke is shyte, and doesn't really make sense.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

That winning joke is shyte, and doesn't really make sense.

its a small child's joke

embarrassing and shows you how far the Fringe has fallen

[The Slim Reaper]

Jokes are worse when written down for starters, unless relying on some kind of wordplay. None of those other jokes are particularly funny, either, so was wokery ruining jokes before weirdos started describing everything as woke?

[Alf]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Jokes are worse when written down for starters, unless relying on some kind of wordplay. None of those other jokes are particularly funny, either, so was wokery ruining jokes before weirdos started describing everything as woke?

What's in it for you to make it your aim to defend the woke?

It's an awful joke that never should have won in a million years. It's fairly obvious to anyone with a tiny bit of critical thinking that it was chosen to win for no other reason than that they decided that a female had to win no matter what.

They chose not by ability but by identity. It's pure bigotry. It's no different than opting for choosing someone based on the identity of their race. These people are real bigots. I don't understand how you can't see it?

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Alf

What's in it for you to make it your aim to defend the woke?

It's an awful joke that never should have won in a million years. It's fairly obvious to anyone with a tiny bit of critical thinking that it was chosen to win for no other reason than that they decided that a female had to win no matter what.

They chose not by ability but by identity. It's pure bigotry. It's no different than opting for choosing someone based on the identity of their race. These people are real bigots. I don't understand how you can't see it?

its baffling to try and defend it for some woeful partizan reason?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Alf

What's in it for you to make it your aim to defend the woke?

It's an awful joke that never should have won in a million years. It's fairly obvious to anyone with a tiny bit of critical thinking that it was chosen to win for no other reason than that they decided that a female had to win no matter what.

They chose not by ability but by identity. It's pure bigotry. It's no different than opting for choosing someone based on the identity of their race. These people are real bigots. I don't understand how you can't see it?

Because it's a meaningless, catch all phrase, for things that mouth breathers don't like.

I agree it's an awful joke, and I didn't defend the joke. It was a prize that was voted on, it wasn't chosen, so I don't understand why you expect me to defend people having a terrible sense of humour..

You're reaching way too far, and reading way too much into some people finding an unfunny joke, funny.

I'm sure there was probably a trans person, or a black lesbian in a wheelchair that appeared on stage, so I'm sure the woke, wokery, wokeness crowd could have found something even slightly funnier.

I never get where you're coming from with this bigotry issue.

[Beso]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

its a small child's joke

embarrassing and shows you how far the Fringe has fallen

It's always the butt of the joke to make best joke at the fringe a **** one until theres a really good one..

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

That winning joke is shyte, and doesn't really make sense.

I saw someone re-jig it a bit to "I started seeing someone who works in the Zoo, I thought he was a keeper, turned out he was a Cheetah" that actually makes it funnier I think

[Oliver_W]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I saw someone re-jig it a bit to "I started seeing someone who works in the Zoo, I thought he was a keeper, turned out he was a Cheetah" that actually makes it funnier I think

Much better!

When I heard that was the winning joke I thought there was potential wordplay to be had, with zoos and cheetahs, but she didn't get there.

Hers feels like a first draft.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

I saw someone re-jig it a bit to "I started seeing someone who works in the Zoo, I thought he was a keeper, turned out he was a Cheetah" that actually makes it funnier I think

so she took it and made it worse?

f me

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

so she took it and made it worse?



f me

No. Someone on Twitter re-jigged her joke

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

No. Someone on Twitter re-jigged her joke

no i think they posted the original joke she stole and butchered

and the fact she took the award is appauling

[Crimson Dynamo]

[bots]

to be fair, the fringe has not been funny in my life time, it's not something new

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

to be fair, the fringe has not been funny in my life time, it's not something new

but this is a new low

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

to be fair, the fringe has not been funny in my life time, it's not something new

No bots, don't do that. It's not funny now because something, something, woke wokery.

[Crimson Dynamo]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

to be fair, the fringe has not been funny in my life time, it's not something new

2016 - 1. “My dad has suggested that I register for a donor card. He’s a man after my own heart.”

2014 - "I've decided to sell my Hoover… well, it was just collecting dust."

2013 "You know who really gives kids a bad name? Posh and Becks."

2019 - “I keep randomly shouting out 'Broccoli' and 'Cauliflower' - I think I might have Florets.”

2013 - "I heard a rumour that Cadbury is bringing out an oriental chocolate bar. Could be a Chinese Wispa."

2008 - “I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again.”

[Swan]

That's a joke straight out a Christmas Cracker

[Zizu]

The winning joke isn’t funny at all ..

This guy is one of the best for one liners imho

https://www.tiktok.com/@garydelaneyc...7AMykBOPg&_r=1


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[Oliver_W]

LT I think we all agree the joke is crap, but why are you so pissed off about it?

And what does it have to do with "wokeness" ?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Oliver_W

LT I think we all agree the joke is crap, but why are you so pissed off about it?

And what does it have to do with "wokeness" ?

Because a women won, is the simple answer. A woman with a bad joke won. So ergo, the apocalypse is nigh.

[Alf]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Because a women won, is the simple answer. A woman with a bad joke won. So ergo, the apocalypse is nigh.

No. Because Bernard Mannining would actually tell funny jokes that actually make people hurt with laughter. That's because he's doing his job as a talented comedian. But the woke want him disappeared and censored and this kind of joke as a replacement.

How about Fook off you miserable, depressing set of authoritarian bastards?

[The Slim Reaper]

Originally Posted by Alf

No. Because Bernard Mannining would actually tell funny jokes that actually make people hurt with laughter. That's because he's doing his job as a talented comedian. But the woke want him disappeared and censored and this kind of joke as a replacement.

How about Fook off you miserable, depressing set of bastards?

Why are you acting as though the finalists for this competition were the actual winner, or one of Manning's famous "there's a nig-nog and a Pakistani fella" jokes?

Your first post in this thread has nothing to do with Bernard manning being cancelled - isn't he dead?

[Alf]

Originally Posted by The Slim Reaper

Why are you acting as though the finalists for this competition was the actual winner, or one of Manning's famous "there's a nig-nog and a **** fella" jokes?

Your first post in this thread has nothing to do with Bernard manning being cancelled - isn't he dead?

I'm speaking generally about the evolvement of comedy. And the nanny state that tells you what exactly you can laugh at and can't laugh at. How is that freedom if someone else is deciding that for you?