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23/08/2010
Vine One-liner Fringe's Funniest
Comedian Tim Vine has won the prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.
The king of the one-liner's was presented with the prize by digital TV channel Dave.
His winning gag was: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
Eight comedy critics, whose shortlist of 24 jokes, whittled down from 883 comedy shows, went forward to a public vote on the digital channel's website.
Vine, who won the the Perrier newcomer award in 1995, said: "I am very happy to win this award and I'm going to celebrate by going to Sooty's barbecue and having a sweepsteak."
The top 10 festival jokes were judged to be:
1) Tim Vine "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
2) David Gibson "I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone."
3) Emo Philips "I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them."
4) Jack Whitehall "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."
5) Gary Delaney "As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog."
6) John Bishop "Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day."
7) Bo Burnham "What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names."
8) Gary Delaney "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."
9) Robert White "For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: Empty."
10) Gareth Richards "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…"
Judges also choose some of the worst jokes of this year's Fringe including:
Sara Pascoe "Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side."
Sean Hughes "You know city-centre beat officers... Well are they police who rap?"
John Luke Roberts "I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge."
Emo Phillips "I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them."
Bec Hill "Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn't have the energy to climb up the stairs."
Dan Antopolski "How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan."
Antopolski's worst joke vote comes as a surprise because he won last year's Dave award for: "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
(GK/BMcC)
The king of the one-liner's was presented with the prize by digital TV channel Dave.
His winning gag was: "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
Eight comedy critics, whose shortlist of 24 jokes, whittled down from 883 comedy shows, went forward to a public vote on the digital channel's website.
Vine, who won the the Perrier newcomer award in 1995, said: "I am very happy to win this award and I'm going to celebrate by going to Sooty's barbecue and having a sweepsteak."
The top 10 festival jokes were judged to be:
1) Tim Vine "I've just been on a once-in-a-lifetime holiday. I'll tell you what, never again."
2) David Gibson "I'm currently dating a couple of anorexics. Two birds, one stone."
3) Emo Philips "I picked up a hitch hiker. You've got to when you hit them."
4) Jack Whitehall "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."
5) Gary Delaney "As a kid I was made to walk the plank. We couldn't afford a dog."
6) John Bishop "Being an England supporter is like being the over-optimistic parents of the fat kid on sports day."
7) Bo Burnham "What do you call a kid with no arms and an eyepatch? Names."
8) Gary Delaney "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."
9) Robert White "For Vanessa Feltz, life is like a box of chocolates: Empty."
10) Gareth Richards "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…"
Judges also choose some of the worst jokes of this year's Fringe including:
Sara Pascoe "Why did the chicken commit suicide? To get to the other side."
Sean Hughes "You know city-centre beat officers... Well are they police who rap?"
John Luke Roberts "I made a Battenberg where the two colours ran alongside each other. I called it apartheid sponge."
Emo Phillips "I like to play chess with bald men in the park although it's hard to find 32 of them."
Bec Hill "Some of my best friends are vegan. They were going to come today but they didn't have the energy to climb up the stairs."
Dan Antopolski "How many Spaniards does it take to change a lightbulb? Juan."
Antopolski's worst joke vote comes as a surprise because he won last year's Dave award for: "Hedgehogs - why can't they just share the hedge?"
(GK/BMcC)
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