Jest the job... work joke is funniest of Fringe

THE Jobcentre is not the most likely place to provide inspiration for a stand-up comic.

But a joke about the irony of being fired from one has been named the funniest of this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

The gag, from Adam Rowe’s show Undeniable, won the annual award with 41 per cent of a public vote from a shortlist of gags picked by comedy critics for TV channel Dave. The top ten jokes at Edinburgh were:

1. ‘Working at the Jobcentre has to be a tense job – knowing that if you get fired, you still have to come in the next day’ – Adam Rowe

2. ‘I had a job drilling holes for water – it was well boring’ – Leo Kearse

3. ‘I took out a loan to pay for an exorcism. If I don’t pay it back, I’m going to get repossessed’ – Olaf Falafel

4. ‘In my last relationship, I hated being treated like a piece of meat. She was a vegan and refused to touch me’ – Daniel Audritt

5. ‘What do colour blind people do when they are told to eat their greens?’ – Flo and Joan

6. ‘I’ve got a new job collecting all the jumpers left in the park at the weekends, but it’s not easy. They keep moving the goalposts’ – Darren Walsh

7. ‘ Trump said he’d build a wall but he hasn’t even picked up a brick. He’s just another middle- aged man failing on a DIY project’ – Justin Moorhouse

8= ‘I lost a friend after we had an argument about the Tardis. I thought it was a little thing, but it seemed much bigger once we got into it’ – Adele Cliff

8= ‘Why are they calling it Brexit and not The Great British Break Off?’ – Alex Edelman

10. ‘I think love is like central heating. You turn it on before guests arrive and pretend it’s like this all the time’ – Laura Lexx.