Reply With QuoteHardly a vintage year is it? This list is from the Graun so perhaps that lot are hilarious to London living millennials.
I was out at the Pleasance last night and enjoyed sets from Lucy Porter and Richard Herring, who were both excellent in their different ways. Here are some of the best jokes (nicked from the Guardian) so far. 3, 9 & 10 tickled me.
1. Robert Garnham: Insomnia is awful. But on the plus side – only three more sleeps till Christmas.
2. Dan Antopolski: Centaurs shop at Topman. And Bottomhorse.
3. Paul Savage: Oregon leads America in both marital infidelity and clinical depression. What a sad state of affairs.
4. Caroline Mabey: I’m very conflicted by eye tests. I want to get the answers right but I really want to win the glasses.
5. Athena Kugblenu: Relationships are like mobile phones. You’ll look at your iPhone 5 and think, it used to be a lot quicker to turn this thing on.
6. Evelyn Mok: My vagina is kind of like Wales. People only visit ironically.
7. Phil Wang: In the bedroom, my girlfriend really likes it when I wear a suit, because she’s got this kinky fantasy where I have a proper job.
8. Gráinne Maguire: The Edinburgh fringe is such a bubble. I asked a comedian what they thought about the North Korea nuclear missile crisis and they asked what venue it was on in.
9. John-Luke Roberts: How did the Village People meet? They obviously led such different lives.
10. Olaf Falafel: If you’re being chased by a pack of taxidermists, do not play dead.
Hardly a vintage year is it? This list is from the Graun so perhaps that lot are hilarious to London living millennials.
There's just not enough good comedy these days...apart from repeats. I love the Edinburgh Fringe. It's a real breath of fresh artists. I remember the very irreverent Jerry Sadowitz. Some wicked Royal jokes.
Thanks for the above. I love no.4.
Brendan
Jerry Sadowitz - edgy indeed. Here he is from the 1987 Fringe, about Jimmy Saville: NOT SUITABLE FOR WORK!Originally Posted by Webwatchmaker
Not sure who told this one, but I rather liked it...
People say I'm egocentric. But that's enough about them...
Very good and stolen.
Probably not for the G&D also.
When you look long into an abyss, the abyss looks long into you.........
Thanks Eddie.
Sadowitz was brilliant in The Pall Bearer's Revue back in the early 90s, but the prudish BBC received so many complaints they never asked him back. What a skilled magician he is too. I saw him several years ago, truly stomach achingly funny.
F.T.F.A.
My wife and I visited a number of years ago, we both love Edinburgh and it was even better during the Fringe!
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