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Well, here we are facing the start of another week, so what better way to cheer us all up than with the Dave award for the funniest joke of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival? With comedy making up 35% of the festival programme that’s around 735 comedy shows to cherry pick the best jokes from.

The panel of judges sat through an average of 60 performances each, sifting through about 7,200 jokes to pick the final shortlist of jokes. These were then put to the vote from Monday 17th August with over 3,000 comedy fans selecting their favourite. This is the second year the award has been made, with the inaugural title going to comedienne Zoe Lyons for her witty one liner at the expense of Amy Winehouse.

So without further ado here are the top five jokes from this year’s Fringe in reverse order:

5)
Jack Whitehall – “I’m sure wherever my dad is, he’s looking down on us. He’s not dead. Just very condescending.”

4)
Zoe Lyons – “I went on a girl’s night out recently. The invitation said ‘dress to kill.’ I went as Rose West.”

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.”

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.’”

And the funniest joke from this years Fringe
Dan Antopolski – “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”