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Edinburgh Fringe’s funniest joke.

“Hedgehogs - why can’t they just share the hedge?” This won the award as Edinburgh Fringe’s funniest joke.

Comedian Dan Antopolski, a 36-year-old Londoner, was given a trophy by the TV channel Dave which had it’s viewers vote on the best jokes after a panel of nine comedians sat through thousands of jokes and whittled the choice down to 27.

Here are the best 10 jokes of this years festival:

1. “Hedgehogs - why can’t they just share the hedge?”,  Dan Antopolski

2. “I was watching the London Marathon and saw one runner dressed as a chicken and another runner dressed as an egg. I thought: ‘This could be interesting’.”,  Paddy Lennox

3.  ”I had my boobs measured and bought a new bra. Now I call them Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes because they’re up where they belong.”,  Sarah Millican

4. “I went on a girls’ night out recently. The invitation said ‘dress to kill’. I went as Rose West.”,  Zoe Lyons

5. “I’m sure wherever my dad is; he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead, just very condescending.”,  Jack Whitehall

6. “Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough.”,  Adam Hills

7. “To the  people who’ve got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn’t invent it!”,  Marcus Brigstocke

8. “A spa hotel? It’s like a normal hotel, only in reception there’s a picture of a pebble.”,  Rhod Gilbert

9. “I’ve been reading the news about there being a civil war in Madagascar. Well, I’ve seen it six times and there isn’t.”,  Dan Antopolski

10. “I started so many fights at my school - I had that attention-deficit disorder. So I didn’t finish a lot of them.”,  Simon Brodkin (as Lee Nelson)

Here's my Top Three:

1 ) Nick Helm: “I needed a password eight characters long so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.”

2 ) Tim Vine: “Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.”

3 ) Hannibal Buress: “People say ‘I’m taking it one day at a time’. You know what? So is everybody else. That’s how time works.”

 

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