UK: Hedgehog joke wins comedy prize

[arkitect]

Maybe I have lost my sense of humour, but these are the funniest?

Personally I think the runner up chicken and egg joke was funnier.
And there is even an iPhone joke to keep it Mac related…

Comedian Dan Antopolski has won a prize for the funniest joke of this year's Edinburgh Fringe.

The funnyman, who has previously been nominated for the Perrier award, picked up the trophy from TV channel Dave.

Nine comedy critics sat through thousands of jokes before choosing 27 for viewers to vote on.

The winning joke was a one-liner from 36-year-old Antopolski's show Silent But Deadly - "Hedgehogs. Why can't they just share the hedge?"

Other side splitters include…

2) Paddy Lennox - "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'."

• 3) Sarah Millican - "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."

• 4) Zoe Lyons - "I went on a girls' night out recently. The invitation said 'dress to kill'. I went as Rose West."

• 5) Jack Whitehall - "I'm sure wherever my dad is; he's looking down on us. He's not dead, just very condescending."

• 6) Adam Hills - "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."

• 7) Marcus Brigstocke - "To the people who've got iPhones: you just bought one, you didn't invent it!"

• 8) Rhod Gilbert - "A spa hotel? It's like a normal hotel, only in reception there's a picture of a pebble."

• 9) Dan Antopolski - "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."

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

More laffs here.

 

[Ntombi]

I actually LOLd at the hedgehog joke.

I smiled at the chicken and the egg joke.

 

[arkitect]

I actually LOLd at the hedgehog joke.

I smiled at the chicken and the egg joke.

Well there ya go. Humour is a strange thing…*

 

[edesignuk]

Maybe I have lost my sense of humour, but these are the funniest?

I'm with you. They're mildly amusing, but that's about it....to me anyway.

 

[Schtumple]

In other news, comedy officially died today after fulfilling our lives since the dawn of time...

 

[iPhone 62S]

I didn't laugh at any of them, a few did make me smile though.

This, to me, seems like a PR stunt by the Top Gear Repeat Channel (or Dave as it's sometimes called).

 

[BoyBach]

Maybe it's a case of "You had to be there..."?

(Although I do like the condescending father joke!)

 

[talkingfuture]

I'd say all the other jokes on the list were funnier than the hedgehog one.

Brigstocke's one at no. 7 is good. Might go over the heads of many on here though.

 

[sammich]

Yeah, hedgehog, chicken <-- egg and the dad one get the chuckles from me.

Wonder if a poll would work in this thread?