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08-23-2016, 08:13 PM
Here are the 10 funniest jokes from the Edinburgh Fringe 2016
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LONDON — It's hard e**ugh to be funny in person, when you can use things like facial expressions and body language to help you get a joke across.
Still being funny on the page, though — when your joke is stripped of its intonation, timing, and all that other clever stuff stand-ups do — is a whole different thing entirely.
SEE ALSO: Comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe are blowing up the stigma of mental health (http://mashable.com/2015/08/12/comedians-mental-health-stigma/)
Because of that, the award for "Funniest Joke" at the Edinburgh Fringe festival (the annual hot-bed of comedy in Scotland's capital) should probably be taken with a pinch of salt. The following top 10 were chosen by a public who could only read the jokes in their written form — but while some of them might lose their punch a bit, others are still pretty good... Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/edinburgh-fringe-funniest-jokes-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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LONDON — It's hard e**ugh to be funny in person, when you can use things like facial expressions and body language to help you get a joke across.
Still being funny on the page, though — when your joke is stripped of its intonation, timing, and all that other clever stuff stand-ups do — is a whole different thing entirely.
SEE ALSO: Comedians at the Edinburgh Fringe are blowing up the stigma of mental health (http://mashable.com/2015/08/12/comedians-mental-health-stigma/)
Because of that, the award for "Funniest Joke" at the Edinburgh Fringe festival (the annual hot-bed of comedy in Scotland's capital) should probably be taken with a pinch of salt. The following top 10 were chosen by a public who could only read the jokes in their written form — but while some of them might lose their punch a bit, others are still pretty good... Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/08/23/edinburgh-fringe-funniest-jokes-2016/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial)
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