Funniest joke Edinburgh 2011

[mercia]

profuse apologies to administrators, this has nothing to do with Radio 3
I just wondered what anyone thought of these

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-14646532

[MrGongGong]

I thought it was going to be something about trams

[Panjandrum]

Dismal. If you analyse them, both the funniest and unfunniest jokes were practically identical in their tired use of overworked puns.

Glad I saved myself the cost of a rail fare.

[french frank]

I thought Paul Daniels' joke was the funniest and it got the wooden spoon for being the worst joke at the festival.

Mind you, I detest comedy

[Norfolk Born]

Dismal. If you analyse them, both the funniest and unfunniest jokes were practically identical in their tired use of overworked puns.

Glad I saved myself the cost of a rail fare.

Arguably..but, equally arguably, better than the oboist joke proffered by SM-P on 'Breakfast' some 90 minutes ago.

[burning dog]

The story is that "The Bob Monkhouse Joke Book" was posted back to its author by express delivery after his house had been robbed but he really did have some good jokes compared to these.

The oboist joke... didn't hear it. A variation of the banjo/viola trampoline joke?

[Panjandrum]

The oboist joke... didn't hear it. A variation of the banjo/viola trampoline joke?

I think it was something about a self-confessed player of the pink oboe.

[Flosshilde]

I think it was something about a self-confessed player of the pink oboe.

Good heavens - the mind boggles.

Anyway, I thought the correct term was 'flute'.

I haven't listen to the clip posted - stand-up commedy is not something I find entertaining, or even funny, on the whole. It annoys me that the media seem to think that the Edinburgh Festival is about commedy.

[Norfolk Born]

The story is that "The Bob Monkhouse Joke Book" was posted back to its author by express delivery after his house had been robbed but he really did have some good jokes compared to these.

The oboist joke... didn't hear it. A variation of the banjo/viola trampoline joke?

The basic idea is that you can always tell an oboist because (s)he can't find the right key and doesn't know when to come in.

[Hornswoggler]

The funniest Edinburgh Festivals joke of all time came from the pen of a critic on a "national" (i.e., London-based) newspaper who described the foundation of the EIF in 1947 as "a gross impertinence".

[Stillhomewardbound]

I think it was something about a self-confessed player of the pink oboe.

... but that is entirely, members of the jury, a matter for you: Then we have been forced to listen to the pitiful whining of Mr Norma St.John Scott - a scrounger, parasite, pervert, a worm, a self-confessed player of the pink oboe!!

Read the whole damning verdict here:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083043/quotes

[burning dog]

That oboeist joke isn't that bad.

Peter Cook's "Here Comes the Judge" I found genuinely funny, much funnier if you are familiar with the summing up of the Thorpe case. Billy Connolly came up with the pink oboe line.



The' humour' of modern stand-ups is spread pretty thin, there are far too many of them and perhaps there are only so many laughs to go around.

[Mr Pee]

Good heavens - the mind boggles.

Anyway, I thought the correct term was 'flute'.

I haven't listen to the clip posted - stand-up commedy is not something I find entertaining, or even funny, on the whole. It annoys me that the media seem to think that the Edinburgh Festival is about commedy.

I don't think the media think that. Comedy-(commedy?)- is an important element of the Fringe, and rightly receives a lot of attention. There's very little comedy in the main festival, unless of course Roger Norrington turns up to conduct.

[aeolium]

shb, the Peter Cook sketch is better heard than read:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U

Peter Cook should be living at this hour to provide some Sven phone-calls to the new Breakfast phone-in. That would shake them up a bit.

[Norfolk Born]

shb, the Peter Cook sketch is better heard than read:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kyos-M48B8U

Peter Cook should be living at this hour to provide some Sven phone-calls to the new Breakfast phone-in. That would shake them up a bit.

Perhaps the admirable Mr Culshaw from 'Dead Ringers' might be persuaded to call in - preferably as 'Mr Hague from the ConSEEERRVVative Party.' Or perhaps Rory Bremner could call in as Tony Blair.