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
9. Alexander Bennett
Alexander Bennett, whose 'I Can't Stand The Man, Myself' Fringe show is on at Gilded Balloon: Patter Hoose (Coorie), August 2-27, not 15th, at 9pm, has this joke in his show. "I love buying alcohol from the self-service checkout. I'm in a bad place, and I need to hear a voice say 'Someone is coming to help you'." Photo: Ollie Craig
10. Bilal Zafar
Bilal Zafar sticks up for delivery drivers in this joke in his Fringe run. "Minimum wage workers SHOULD be allowed to do as little as possible. I got a pizza from Deliveroo, it turned up an hour late, wrong pizza, squashed in the box somehow and I said ‘good!’. That’s how it should be. 5 stars. Big tip!" Bilal Zafar Bilal Zafar: IMPOSTER, Underbelly Bristo Square (Friesian) @ 3.50pm, 2 – 28 August (not 14). Photo: Leslie Bryon Pitt