Funniest joke of the Edinburgh fringe – 2018 edition

1 is by Adam Rowe
4 is by Daniel Audritt
6 in full: I’ve got a new job collecting all the jumpers left in the park at the weekends, but it’s not easy. They keep moving the goalposts. (Darren Walsh)
7 in full: Trump said he’d build a wall but he hasn’t even picked up a brick. He’s just another middle-aged man failing on a DIY project. (Justin Moorhouse)
8 in full: I lost a friend after we had an argument about the Tardis. I thought it was a little thing, but it seemed much bigger once we got into it. (Adele Cliff)
10 is by Laura Lexx

None of those are even a little bit good.

I installed a new window in my house but I'm disappointed that I still haven't won any dough!!!!!!!!! P.S. I was declared legally brain dead last year. The doctors are amazed that I'm still capable of speech.

I heard Justin Moorhouse deliver #7 at a preview show in our town last month. It was funny in context, but other bits got louder laughs.

the jobcentre one is like a less funny version of this Bob Newhart joke:

He also claimed to have been a clerk in the unemployment office who made $60 a week but who quit upon learning weekly unemployment benefits were $55 a week and "they only had to come in to the office one day a week to collect it".

This thread always makes me suspect that humor never actually existed to begin with and I’ve been buying into a lie

I was thumbing through an issue of Highlights in a waiting room last week (look, it was that or goddamn People Magazine, okay), and there was a page of jokes contributed by kids under the age of 10 which were by and large funnier and more clever than any of these poll options.

This thread always makes me suspect that humor never actually existed to begin with and I’ve been buying into a lie

It's more that it doesn't exist at the Edinburgh Festival tbf.

I still reckon there are probably funny shows at the Edinburgh festival but the people in charge of isolating a gag from one for these publications have a terrible sense of humour (& maybe this creates a bit of a feedback loop of comedians writing jokes like this)

i'm going to maintain a dignified silence

I have to imagine audiences did the same

I used to work with the winner when I was on the bar and he was a ruddy faced young bar-back with aspirations. He was a good lad and I'm happy for him. The joke is whatever but aren't they always

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I’ve got a new job collecting all the jumpers left in the park at the weekends, but it’s not easy. They keep moving the goalposts.

Is this some kinda "jumpers for goalposts" gag? IDGI otherwise.

It's a British thing. Generations of kids have made makeshift goalposts for football games in the park by leaving their jumpers in small piles.

Yeah I only vaguely figured that cos of the Fast Show gag.