Of the endless jokes peddled at the 2,542 shows at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, from side-splitting-ouch-my-stomach-hurts gags to the awful lines that make you twiddle your thumbs and look down into your lap, the Dave channel has picked the top 10.
Relative newcomer Nick Helm picked up the award for the best gag, while the veteran magician Paul Daniels received the unwanted gong for the worst.
30 jokes were long-listed for Dave’s Funniest Joke of The Fringe Award, the top 10 shortlisted are below - vote for your favourite…
The Top 10 funniest jokes were:
1. Nick Helm: ‘I needed a password with eight characters – so I picked Snow White and the Seven Dwarves.’
2. Tim Vine: ‘Crime in multi-storey car parks. That is wrong on so many different levels.’
3. Hannibal Buress: ‘People say, “I'm taking it one day at a time.” You know what? So is everybody. That's how time works.
4. Tim Key: ‘Drive Thru McDonalds was more expensive than I thought... once you've hired the car...’
5. Matt Kirshen: ‘I was playing chess with my friend and he said, "Let's make this interesting". So we stopped playing chess.’
6. Sarah Millican: ‘My mother told me, you don’t have to put anything in your mouth you don’t want to. Then she made me eat broccoli, which felt like double standards.’
7. Alan Sharp: ‘I was in a band which we called The Prevention, because we hoped people would say we were better than The Cure.’
8. Mark Watson: ‘Someone asked me recently – what would I rather give up, food or sex. Neither! I’m not falling for that one again, wife.’
9. Andrew Lawrence: ‘I admire these phone hackers. I think they have a lot of patience. I can’t even be bothered to check my OWN voicemails.’
10. DeAnne Smith: ‘My friend died doing what he loved... Heroin.’