Here are the 10
funniest jokes from the
Edinburgh Fringe 2016
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.
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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...
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