With Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2023 well underway, we’ve been taking a look at the best jokes told in the Capital this month as part of the world’s biggest arts festival.
While we can’t share the more blue jokes told at this year’s festival, by the likes of Frankie Boyle and Jason Byrne, some of these more family-friendly clean jokes should at least still make you laugh, and if so, why not check out the perfromer’s Edinburgh show?
. Olaf Falafel
Olaf Falafel's Fringe show 'Look What Fell Out Of My Head' is on at Laughing Horse at the Pear Tree at 3pm, 4-28 August (not 16). In his show he says: "I hear the inventor of bubblewrap shoes has just popped his clogs." Photo: Alan Powdrill
. Liz Guterbock
American comic Liz Guterbock' Fringe show Geriatric Millennial is on at Pleasance Courtyard (Cellar) at 4.15pm, August 2 -27 (not 14 or 21). In it she tells this great one liner: "People ask me about my anti-ageing secrets. I use a phenomenal eye cream called Not Having Kids." Photo: Karla Gowlett
. Ed Patrick
Doctor turned stand-up comedian Ed Patrick will tell this joke in Edinburgh this month in his Fringe show. "Had my wedding recently. I married a midwife, so she’s upgraded to a full wife." Ed Patrick: Catch Your Breath is on at The Stand, New Town Theatre, Lower Hall, 10-14, 16-21, 26 and 27 August at 3.10pm. Photo: Chris Cox
5. Darren Walsh
Darren Walsh: 3rd Rock from the Pun is on at Bar 50 – Garden Room 15-27 August at 1.45pm. In his Fringe show he says: "How is everyone? I just signed an NDA, so can't complain." Photo: Alexis Dubus]
6. Ian Smith
Ian Smith tells this joke in his Fringe show 'Crushing': "Love is very powerful because it can make you look at a shirt and say, 'I wore that on our first date' and completely forget you also wore it at a rectal exam." His show is on at Monkey Barrel at the Tron, 2-27 August (not 14) at 1.35pm. Photo: Matt Stronge
7. Philipp Kostelecky
Stand-up Philipp Kostelecky tells this joke in his Fringe show: "Family is important, because they’re the only people who know what you’ve been through, and that’s because they caused half of it." Philipp Kostelecky: Daddy's Home is on at the The Stand 2 @ 4pm, August 2-27 (not 14). Photo: Rebecca Need-Menear]
8. Ollie Horn
The stand-up has this one liner in his Fringe show this year: "Men love fixing things. Except themselves." Ollie Horn: Not Much Just The Tonic at The Mash House (Just The Cask Room) @ 6.25pm 3–27 August (not 14). Photo: Gabrielle Boudville